Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, baked ziti. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Baked Ziti is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Baked Ziti is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked ziti using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:
- Make ready 1 lb ziti noodles
- Make ready 4 C tomato-meat sauce
- Prepare 8 oz spinach
- Get 5 roma tomatoes; thick julienne & halved
- Get 2 roasted red bell peppers; thick julienne & halved
- Prepare 2 C mozzarella
- Make ready 1/2 C grated parmesean
- Make ready 1 t crushed pepper flakes
- Take 3/4 oz basil; chiffonade
- Prepare 1/2 bundle parsley; chiffonade
- Get 1 large pinch kosher salt
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. Baked Ziti Is Lasagna's Chill, Laid-Back Cousin. 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. This Baked Ziti is a classic Italian-American comfort food!
Steps to make Baked Ziti:
- Heat tomato-meat sauce in a seperate sauce pot to a simmer.
- Boil noodles in salted water until al dente. Drain.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine cooked noodles, 1 C mozzarella, tomatoes, pepper flakes, roasted bell peppers, spinach, parsley, and basil. Add a pinch of salt. Mix together. Transfer to a large casserole dish. Sprinkle remaining cheese atop.
- Bake uncovered at 350° for approximately 15- 20 minutes or until cheese is bubbly.
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