How to Make Perfect Baked Ziti

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked ziti using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:

1. Prepare 1 lb Hot or sweet Italian turkey sausage
2. Make ready 1 onion, chopped
3. Prepare 3 clove sliced garlic
4. Make ready 28 oz plain diced tomatoes
5. Prepare 15 oz tomato sauce
6. Make ready 2 tsp sugar
7. Get 1/4 tsp salt
8. Prepare 1/4 tsp pepper
9. Take 14 1/2 oz basil and oregano diced tomatoes
10. Get 1 tsp dried basil leaves or half cup fresh basil chopped
11. Take 16 oz Ziti
12. Get 8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
13. Get 1 packages sliced provolone
14. Prepare 1/4 cup grated parmesan or romano cheese

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. 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.

Instructions to make Baked Ziti:

1. Preheat the oven to 375. Crumble the sausage into a 3 quart saucepan. Cook for 8 minutes or until no pink remains. Drain the fat.
2. In another pot, add the onion and saute for about 4 minutes until soft. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the plain tomatoes with their juice. Stir in the sauce, sugar, salt, and pepper. Simmer, stirring occasionally for 20 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the sausage, seasoned tomatoes, and the basil.
3. Boil the Ziti, drain, then return to the pot. Coat the Ziti in just enough sauce to coat it. Layer half of the Ziti in a 13 by 9 pan. Top with the provolone overlapping the slices as needed. Add the rest of the Ziti, then the mozzarella cheese. Pour the last of the sauce over the top and sprinkle with parmesan and romano cheese. Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes until bubbly around the edges and lightly brown. Let it cool for 10 minutes and enjoy!
4. Optional: save some of the mozzarella as a topping and add extra seasonings on top before placing it in the oven.

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