Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Try RICOTTA CHEESE instead of sour cream and skip the provolone for a real Italian version of Baked Ziti. Mix an egg into a pound of ricotta to make it nice and creamy, and toss with the ziti. Layer sauce first (so you don't need to butter the pan), then ziti/cheese, mozzarella, sprinkle with parm and a little dried oregano or basil, then.
Baked Ziti is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Baked Ziti is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook baked ziti using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:
- Get 1 lb dry ziti pasta
- Prepare 1 onion, chopped
- Take 1 lb italian sausage (or ground beef…I like ground sausage better)
- Prepare 2 tsp minced garlic
- Take 2 tsp italian seasoning
- Make ready 2 jars of spaghetti sauce (26 oz each)
- Make ready 6 oz provolone cheese (9-12 round slices)
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup sour cream
- Get 8 oz mozzarella cheese
- Get 1 grated parmesan cheese
- Take butter
Baked macaroni dishes like ziti combine cooked pasta with a sauce, vegetable, and/or meat – and plenty of cheese. Baked ziti can become dry for several reasons. When assembling the dish, be sure to cover the pasta with enough of the sauce so that the noodles don't dry out. Also, to prevent moisture from evaporating while cooking, cover the dish tightly with foil.
Instructions to make Baked Ziti:
- Cook pasta according to package.
- In a large skillet, brown onion and sausage ovef medium heat. Drain the fat. Add minced garlic and cook for a minute or so. Add spaghetti sauce and Italian seasoning and simmer for 15 mins.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9x13 baking dish. Layer as follows: 1/2 of the ziti, 1/2 of the sauce mixture, provolone cheese, sour cream, remaining ziti, remaining sauce mixture and then sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top then the grated parmesan cheese.
- Bake for 30 minutes in ghe preheated oven or until cheeses are melted. You may want to cover it for the first 20 minutes with foil and then let the cheese melt and brown for the last 10 minutes.
- Optional: Serve with garlic knots (our fav) or garlic toast. Enjoy!
Baked Ziti is a classic baked pasta dish. 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, then you use mostaciolli noodles. Some people just use tomato/marinara sauce. That, of course, would never fly in this house. Baked Ziti is the ultimate in Italian Casserole dishes and I'd feel like I was holding back if I didn't tell you that if you love this ziti I need you to try our Baked Million Dollar Spaghetti and Ultimate Meat Lasagna.
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