Sheree's Baked Ziti
Sheree's Baked Ziti

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Baked Ziti - classic Italian American comfort food of pasta baked with sausage, tomato sauce and all kinds of gooey, yummy cheeses. Photography Credit: Elise Bauer. baked ziti with whole green beans dinner. Baked pasta has been around almost as long as pasta itself with the first baked pasta dishes tracking back to the middle ages.

Sheree's Baked Ziti is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Sheree's Baked Ziti is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sheree's baked ziti using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sheree's Baked Ziti:
  1. Take pasta and sauce
  2. Take 1 lb ground meat (sometime i use Italian sausage and ground beef)
  3. Make ready 1 small onion , minced
  4. Prepare 1/2 small green bell pepper
  5. Get 2 clove garlic, minced
  6. Make ready 1/4 tsp pepper
  7. Take 1 dash salt (1\8 tsp)
  8. Prepare 8 oz penne or ziti pasta
  9. Make ready 24 oz of your favorite spaghetti sauce (i like prego)
  10. Take ricatto filling
  11. Get 1/2 tbsp basil (i use dried)
  12. Make ready 1/2 tbsp oregano (i use dried)
  13. Take 1/2 cup shredded parmesan
  14. Prepare 1 1/2 cup container of ricatto (i use cottage cheese drained if i don't have ricatto)
  15. Make ready 2 large eggs
  16. Get 1 pinch of garlic (1\8 tsp)
  17. Get 1 pinch salt (1\8 tsp)
  18. Make ready extra
  19. Take 2 cup mozzarella cheese

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Instructions to make Sheree's Baked Ziti:
  1. bring about 5 cups of water with 2 tsp of salt. bring it to a rolling boil.., add pasta stir well so the outside kinda cooks… turn it down to med..,, let it cook between 7-9 minutes.,,, should all dents….put colander over a bowl.,, to catch pasta water…
  2. put very small amount of olive oil to just cover the bottom of the pan…add onion and bell pepper with pan on med… if using Italian sausage remove from casing…,, if just using ground beef they crumble it…. I use an old potato masher to fry meat add garlic powder,,,..salt and black pepper to taste…
  3. drain ground beef.. but don't rinse…. add to drained pasta in your stock pot….
  4. stir pasta and meat mix well…. put pasta sauce in pan and best through.. while waiting on this… mix your ricatto, basil. oregano, 2 eggs, and Parmesan cheese…. mix very well…
  5. mix cheese mixture with pasta/meat mixture…. spray a casserole dish and put 1/2 the mixture in the pan cover with mozzarella cheese….. please the other half of mixture on the top and cover with mozzarella….
  6. bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes until fold and bubbly,., I make a vinaigrette salad to go with it and Texas toast..
  7. *** I did not add sugar because I'm using spaghetti sauce and it usual has some sugar in it..

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