Recipe of Award-winning Baked Ziti

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baked Ziti is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Baked Ziti is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:

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

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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