Steps to Prepare Homemade Baked Ziti

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:

1. Take 2 lbs penne pasta
2. Take 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
3. Prepare 24 oz tomato sauce
4. Take 4 1/2 cups ricotta cheese
5. Make ready 4 cups mozzarella cheese (shredded)
6. Get 1 cup parmesan cheese
7. Get 2 eggs
8. Take 4 tbsp parsley
9. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
10. Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
11. Prepare 1 tsp oregano
12. Take 1/4 cup halved pepperoni slices (optional)

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Steps to make Baked Ziti:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Boil water. Add some salt (about 1 tbsp) to flavor the pasta as it cooks. Once it boils, add pasta and cook for 15 minutes. Once pasta is done cooking, mix in a bit of sauce to keep it from sticking.
3. Heat a pan at medium heat, add the beef and some water (maybe 2 cups or so). Brown the chopped meat. This will take about 10 minutes - you’ll know it’s done when the juice is clear.
4. Then drain it. Once the meat cools a bit, break it up into small pieces if it isn’t already.
5. Get a large foil roast pan and coat the bottom with about 1/4 cup of sauce.
6. In a large bowl, mix together the meat and all ingredients, except the cooked pasta. Leave a little bit of sauce to the side to drizzle over the top later.
7. After the meat, cheeses, eggs, and seasonings are mixed well, add the pasta and mix well again.
8. Put the ziti in the baking pan. Sprinkle some extra mozzarella and parmesan cheese (maybe 2 handfuls of each) over the top layer. Then drizzle the last of the sauce over top.
9. Cover the pan with foil and cook in the oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Then, take off the foil and cook for another 20 minutes or so.

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