How to Prepare Ultimate Baked zitti

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, baked zitti. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. Baked Ziti is an easy, saucy, and cheesy pasta casserole.

Baked zitti is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Baked zitti is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked zitti using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked zitti:

1. Prepare 1 lb ground beef
2. Get 8 oz can of tomato sauce
3. Prepare 16 oz pre pared spaghetti sauce
4. Make ready 16 oz fire roasted tomatoes
5. Take 2 tsp minced garlic
6. Take 1 cup ricotta cheese
7. Prepare 2 cup italien blend shredded cheese
8. Prepare 1 box uncooked Zitti pasta
9. Take 16 oz of water
10. Prepare 1 tsp each of garlic powder onion powder sea salt black pepper

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 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! Layered PAM sprayed Pyrex baking dishes like so.

Steps to make Baked zitti:

1. Combine all of the dry ingredients, minced garlic and ground beef in a skillet and cook until no longer pink
2. Combine tomato sauce, pasta sauce and fire roasted tomatoes to meat mixter and bring to a boil
3. In a 11 by 13 baking dish or a disposable aluminum foil pan add dry pasta and mix with ricotta cheese until well incorporated
4. Add tomato sauce, water and meat mixture and Italian blend cheese to pasta mix well
5. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 1 hour
6. Remove foil and let sit for 5 to 10 minutes before serving

A hearty dinner option that's perfect for feeding a crowd! Layered PAM sprayed Pyrex baking dishes like so. 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. This vegetable packed vegetarian Baked Ziti is the ultimate weeknight dinner. Baked ziti is like lasagna's laid back sister.

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