Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Baked Ziti

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baked ziti using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:

1. Make ready 1 lb dry ziti pasta
2. Prepare 1 onion, chopped
3. Get 1 lb italian sausage (or ground beef…I like ground sausage better)
4. Prepare 2 tsp minced garlic
5. Make ready 2 tsp italian seasoning
6. Get 2 jars of spaghetti sauce (26 oz each)
7. Take 6 oz provolone cheese (9-12 round slices)
8. Take 1 1/2 cup sour cream
9. Prepare 8 oz mozzarella cheese
10. Make ready 1 grated parmesan cheese
11. Get butter

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.

Instructions to make Baked Ziti:

1. Cook pasta according to package.
2. In a large skillet, brown onion and sausage ovef medium heat. Drain the fat. Add minced garlic and cook for a minute or so. Add spaghetti sauce and Italian seasoning and simmer for 15 mins.
3. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9x13 baking dish. Layer as follows: 1/2 of the ziti, 1/2 of the sauce mixture, provolone cheese, sour cream, remaining ziti, remaining sauce mixture and then sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top then the grated parmesan cheese.
4. Bake for 30 minutes in ghe preheated oven or until cheeses are melted. You may want to cover it for the first 20 minutes with foil and then let the cheese melt and brown for the last 10 minutes.
5. Optional: Serve with garlic knots (our fav) or garlic toast. Enjoy!

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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