Baked Ziti Recipe

Ingredients

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• Baked Ziti shopping list
• salt and pepper shopping list
• 1 pound italian sausage, preferably bulk or ground meat of any shopping list
• type, or a combination shopping list
• 1 large onion, diced shopping list
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic, optional shopping list
• 1 (28-ounce can) tomatoes, chopped, with liquid shopping list
• 1 pound ziti or other large cut pasta shopping list
• 1 pound mozzarella, grated or chopped shopping list
• olive oil or butter as needed shopping list
• 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan, optional shopping list
• 1. Bring large pot of water to boil; salt it. Heat oven to 400F. shopping list
• 2. Distribute meat in large skillet over medium high heat and cook, shopping list
• undisturbed, until browned on one side, about 5 minutes. Stir, shopping list
• cook another 2 minutes undisturbed, then add the onion and shopping list
• garlic, if using. Lower heat to medium and continue to cook, shopping list
• stirring occasionally, until vegetables are soft; add tomatoes shopping list
• and bring to a boil. Simmer while cooking pasta, stirring and shopping list
• seasoning with salt and pepper to taste; do not let sauce become shopping list
• too thick. shopping list
• 3. cook pasta until just tender; it should still be too hard to shopping list
• eat. Drain it (do not shake the colander; allow some water to shopping list
• cling to the noodles) and toss it with the sauce and half the shopping list
• mozzarella. Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking dish and spoon mixture shopping list
• into it. Top with remaining mozzarella and the Parmesan if shopping list
• using. Bake until top is browned and cheese bubbly, 20 to 30 shopping list
• minutes. shopping list