Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, awesome cheesy baked ziti. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Not only is this cheesy baked ziti super easy to make AND crazy delicious, but it can be made ahead of time and frozen. Time to stock the freezer with cheesy pasta casseroles! AND, you use the same pot start to finish, which is pretty much awesome in terms of dishwashing.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have awesome cheesy baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Awesome cheesy baked ziti:
- Make ready 1 box ziti or penne noodles
- Take 1 lb sour cream
- Prepare 1 lb ground beef
- Get 2 can jar spaghetti sauce
- Take 6 oz shredded mozzarella
- Get 3 tbsp shredded parmesan cheese
- Take 1 medium onion, chopped
- Take 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
- Make ready fresh ground pepper
- Take 2 tbsp balsamic or red wine vinegar
- Prepare 1 tsp garlic powder
- Make ready 16 each sliced provolone cheese
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Steps to make Awesome cheesy baked ziti:
- 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.
- Boil pasta until al dente, drain and set aside.
- In a large skillet brown the ground beef.
- Add chopped onions to the ground beef and saute until the onions are translucent.
- Drain beef mixture in a colander, set aside.
- Add 2 jars of your favorite spaghetti sauce, beef mixture and 2 tablespoons of vinegar to the skillet. Set aside.
- In medium mixing bowl stir together the sour cream, parmesan and mozzarella cheeses, Italian seasoning, ground pepper and 1tsp garlic powder.
- Drizzle a small amount add the spaghetti sauce mixture in the bottom of the lined pan to keep pasta from sticking.
- Place half the pasta in the pan.
- Layer half of the sauce mixture on top of the pasta.
- Lay eight slices of provolone cheese to cover the sauce mixture.
- Soon half the sour cream/cheese mixture over the provolone and spread out.
- Layer the last of the noodles, then sauce mixture, then 8 slices of provolone and last of the sour cream/cheese mixture.
- Bake in a 350° pre-heated oven for 30 minutes or until sauce is bubbly and cheese is melted.
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