Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baked ziti. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Baked Ziti is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Baked Ziti is something that I have loved my entire life.

Baked Ziti - classic Italian American comfort food of pasta baked with sausage, tomato sauce and all kinds of gooey, yummy cheeses. Baked Ziti is so much more than just a Bolognese pasta bake…. It's a big, juicy baked pasta that's loaded with flavour from a healthy dose of seasonings and topped with a generous amount of cheese.

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

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:

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

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Steps 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!

No fussing with perfectly fitting the noodles or cooking the bechamel. This Baked Ziti is a classic Italian-American comfort food! It's easy to make, perfect for a weeknight meal or a special occasion. Tender pieces of ziti noodles, delicious meat sauce. I highly suggest dividing the leftovers into single servings so they Like a freeform lasagna, this Baked Ziti has layers of pasta, homemade red.

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