Recipe of Favorite Baked Ziti

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baked Ziti is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Baked Ziti is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Baked Ziti is a classic Italian American comfort food of pasta baked with sausage, tomato sauce and all kinds of gooey, yummy cheeses. Baked Ziti is so much more than just a Bolognese pasta bake…. It's a big, juicy baked pasta that's loaded with flavour from a healthy dose of seasonings and topped with a generous amount of cheese. This easy baked ziti recipe is made with homemade marinara sauce, creamy ricotta, basil, and lots of mozzarella cheese!

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:

1. Make ready 2 lbs penne pasta
2. Get 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
3. Make ready 24 oz tomato sauce
4. Make ready 4 1/2 cups ricotta cheese
5. Prepare 4 cups mozzarella cheese (shredded)
6. Make ready 1 cup parmesan cheese
7. Take 2 eggs
8. Take 4 tbsp parsley
9. Take 1 tbsp salt
10. Get 1 tsp black pepper
11. Make ready 1 tsp oregano
12. Make ready 1/4 cup halved pepperoni slices (optional)

It's basically some kind of tomato or meat sauce baked in a dish with some kind of cheese and, of course, ziti noodles—unless you're me. This is seriously the Best Baked Ziti Ever. Your family is going to love the homemade meat sauce, and that ricotta and cream cheese topping takes it to the next level! Lasagna and baked ziti share a lot of the same ingredients, but I find that baked ziti is a lot easier to throw together and serve.

Instructions to make Baked Ziti:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Boil water. Add some salt (about 1 tbsp) to flavor the pasta as it cooks. Once it boils, add pasta and cook for 15 minutes. Once pasta is done cooking, mix in a bit of sauce to keep it from sticking.
3. Heat a pan at medium heat, add the beef and some water (maybe 2 cups or so). Brown the chopped meat. This will take about 10 minutes - you’ll know it’s done when the juice is clear.
4. Then drain it. Once the meat cools a bit, break it up into small pieces if it isn’t already.
5. Get a large foil roast pan and coat the bottom with about 1/4 cup of sauce.
6. In a large bowl, mix together the meat and all ingredients, except the cooked pasta. Leave a little bit of sauce to the side to drizzle over the top later.
7. After the meat, cheeses, eggs, and seasonings are mixed well, add the pasta and mix well again.
8. Put the ziti in the baking pan. Sprinkle some extra mozzarella and parmesan cheese (maybe 2 handfuls of each) over the top layer. Then drizzle the last of the sauce over top.
9. Cover the pan with foil and cook in the oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Then, take off the foil and cook for another 20 minutes or so.

Your family is going to love the homemade meat sauce, and that ricotta and cream cheese topping takes it to the next level! Lasagna and baked ziti share a lot of the same ingredients, but I find that baked ziti is a lot easier to throw together and serve. Because you don't have to wrestle pasta sheets or lasagna noodles or. This baked ziti recipe is layers of pasta with meat sauce and three types of cheese, all cooked together to golden brown perfection. A hearty dinner option that's perfect for feeding a crowd!

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