Recipe

Baked Ziti With Meatball Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Peacekeeper0 / All my dishes 11 months, 2 weeks ago A pasta, sauce and cheese casserole with mini-meatballs, perfect for an Italian meal or with your favorite mafia-related movie or TV show. The meatball recipe and marinara recipe work perfectly fine on their own. You can just leave the meatballs out of the marinara if you want as well.... More Prep:60m Cook:30m Servings:8	Peacekeeper
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Ingredients

Meatball:

Ingredients

1 lb. ground beef -80% lean or less

1/2c parmesan

1/2c italian breadcrumbs

2 Tbsp parsley chopped

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp. Kosher salt

2 eggs

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Marinara Sauce:

Ingredients

2 big cans whole peeled tomatoes

1 small can tomato paste

1/2 onion

4 cloves garlic

oregano

basil

rosemary

thyme

pinch sugar

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Ziti:

Ingredients

1 1/2 boxes Ziti (Rigatone or any tube pasta works as well)

1 big Ricotta cheese

3 or 4 cups shredded mozzarella

Romano grated

Parmesan grated

6 slices of provolone

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Final Assembly

Ingredients:

Big Casserole dish (11x9 ok; 13x9 preferable); Glass or metal works fine

Directions

Meatball:

Directions

Mix everything together

brown in skillet; will take multiple batches obviously.

This must be done by the time you're adding the tomato sauce to the marinara.

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Marinara Sauce:

Directions

Chop onion and finely chop garlic

Saute onion and garlic in big pot

In a blender or food processor, blend the tomato cans and tomato paste together (What I do since i have a blender is to blend one can of peeled tomatoes, adding it to the sauted onion and garlic, and then blending the other can with the tomato paste.)

Add tomatoes to onion and garlic

Add the herbs to taste (I usually do 2 Tbsp Oregano and 1 Tbsp everything else(dried))

Add pinch of sugar

Add meatballs

Partially cover

Cook 30-35 min. over low heat stirring occasionally

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Ziti:

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F

Boil Ziti to al dente

Mix most of the Ricotta and half the mozzarella with the noodles

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Final Assembly:

Directions

On the bottom of the dish put a layer of sauce and meatballs

Ziti and cheese mixture goes next

6 slices of provolone on top of that

From there it just goes Sauce and meatballs, ziti and cheese, sauce and meatballs

Cover with the rest of the mozzarella

Grate parmesan and Romano over the mozzarella

Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes, or until cheese

After hours slaving away making this beautiful dish, feel free to pour yourself a glass or two of red wine and dig in.

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Comments

donman 11 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Nice dish :)

krumkake 11 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Love your homemade marinara in this dish (and the flavorful meatballs, too!)...I usually use a jarred sauce, but this looks like it would be worth the effort - nice post, and love the picture...thanks!

myrna 11 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Wow, this looks great; a bit of work, but worth it!

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