Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Baked ziti:
- Prepare 1 box ziti
- Get 1 lb soft mozzarella cheese (unshreaded)
- Get 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 Oz)
- Make ready 5 small mushrooms (optional)
- Get 2 cup shredded cheeses( mozzarella or Parmesan)
- Make ready 3 clove garlic
- Make ready 1 cup marinara sauce
- Take 1 lb ground meat (cooked)
- Get 1/2 medium onion
- Prepare 1 tsp oregano
- Get 1 tsp basil
- Get 8 oz ricotta
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Instructions to make Baked ziti:
- preheat oven to 350
- cook ground meat
- cook ziti until tender
- chop and combine onion, mushrooms, ground meat, crushed tomatoes, garlic, and seasonings and let simmer in a small pan.
- slice mozzarella into about 16 even pieces
- 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.
- Cover with tin foil and place in the oven for 35 min. Remove foil and cook for another 15 min.
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