Recipe of Favorite Awesome cheesy baked ziti

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Left to right: Top layer (more parm and mozzarella). With a robustly flavored homemade tomato sauce (made with Italian sausage), ricotta and melty, bubbly mozzarella cheese, this is comfort food at its finest! Baked Ziti is a classic Italian American comfort food of pasta baked with sausage, tomato sauce and all kinds of gooey, yummy cheeses. This recipe is a pretty basic version, but everyone who makes baked ziti has their own unique tricks and twists to it.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have awesome cheesy baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Awesome cheesy baked ziti:

1. Prepare 1 box ziti or penne noodles
2. Take 1 lb sour cream
3. Make ready 1 lb ground beef
4. Take 2 can jar spaghetti sauce
5. Make ready 6 oz shredded mozzarella
6. Make ready 3 tbsp shredded parmesan cheese
7. Get 1 medium onion, chopped
8. Get 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
9. Get fresh ground pepper
10. Make ready 2 tbsp balsamic or red wine vinegar
11. Make ready 1 tsp garlic powder
12. Prepare 16 each sliced provolone cheese

Ziti is cooked, then tossed with spaghetti sauce, ricotta and mozzarella cheeses. Baked ziti is one of those incredibly adaptable recipes you can change to suit your mood, your family's tastes or the ingredients you have on hand. 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. They're basically all best friends in the cheesy meat pasta category.

Steps to make Awesome cheesy baked ziti:

1. Line a 9 x 13 (or larger) casserole pan with Reynolds casserole liner foil/paper. If you don't have this make sure to coat pan with cooking spray.
2. Boil pasta until al dente, drain and set aside.
3. In a large skillet brown the ground beef.
4. Add chopped onions to the ground beef and saute until the onions are translucent.
5. Drain beef mixture in a colander, set aside.
6. Add 2 jars of your favorite spaghetti sauce, beef mixture and 2 tablespoons of vinegar to the skillet. Set aside.
7. In medium mixing bowl stir together the sour cream, parmesan and mozzarella cheeses, Italian seasoning, ground pepper and 1tsp garlic powder.
8. Drizzle a small amount add the spaghetti sauce mixture in the bottom of the lined pan to keep pasta from sticking.
9. Place half the pasta in the pan.
10. Layer half of the sauce mixture on top of the pasta.
11. Lay eight slices of provolone cheese to cover the sauce mixture.
12. Soon half the sour cream/cheese mixture over the provolone and spread out.
13. Layer the last of the noodles, then sauce mixture, then 8 slices of provolone and last of the sour cream/cheese mixture.
14. Bake in a 350° pre-heated oven for 30 minutes or until sauce is bubbly and cheese is melted.

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. They're basically all best friends in the cheesy meat pasta category. Cheesy Baked Ziti Recipe - Baked ziti loaded with pasta, marinara, cheese and beef that makes the ultimate Italian dish. A staple family recipe that's always a big crowd pleaser! One of my all time favorite foods is pasta.

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