Steps to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Baked ziti

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Baked Ziti is a classic Italian American comfort food of pasta baked with sausage, tomato sauce and all kinds of gooey, yummy cheeses. This easy baked ziti recipe is made with homemade marinara sauce, creamy ricotta, basil, and lots of mozzarella cheese! I turn to this easy baked ziti recipe anytime I'm serving a crowd. Baked Ziti is so much more than just a Bolognese pasta bake….

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked ziti:

1. Prepare 1 box ziti
2. Get 1 lb soft mozzarella cheese (unshreaded)
3. Prepare 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 Oz)
4. Make ready 5 small mushrooms (optional)
5. Prepare 2 cup shredded cheeses( mozzarella or Parmesan)
6. Get 3 clove garlic
7. Make ready 1 cup marinara sauce
8. Make ready 1 lb ground meat (cooked)
9. Get 1/2 medium onion
10. Prepare 1 tsp oregano
11. Prepare 1 tsp basil
12. Take 8 oz ricotta

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.

Steps to make Baked ziti:

1. preheat oven to 350
2. cook ground meat
3. cook ziti until tender
4. chop and combine onion, mushrooms, ground meat, crushed tomatoes, garlic, and seasonings and let simmer in a small pan.
5. slice mozzarella into about 16 even pieces
6. I n a 9 x 13 baking stone or dish scoop out 1/3 of simmering sauce until the bottom of the dish is lightly covered. Then apply a layer of ziti, on top of that layer the 16 slices of mozzarella. The next layer is 1/3 of marinara combination, then spread the ricotta cheese over the sauce using a rubber spatula. The final layer is ziti, the rest of the sauce combination, and then the extra plain sauce on top of that. Then you top it off with the shredded cheese.
7. Cover with tin foil and place in the oven for 35 min. Remove foil and cook for another 15 min.

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. 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! This Baked Ziti is a classic Italian-American comfort food!

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