Baked Ziti With Meatball
From peacekeeper0 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 8
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. Read more You can just leave the meatballs out of the marinara if you want as well. See less
Ingredients
- Meatball: shopping list
- Ingredients shopping list
- 1 lb. ground beef -80% lean or less shopping list
- 1/2c parmesan shopping list
- 1/2c Italian breadcrumbs shopping list
- 2 Tbsp parsley chopped shopping list
- 1 tsp garlic powder shopping list
- 1 tsp. kosher salt shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
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- Marinara Sauce: shopping list
- Ingredients shopping list
- 2 big cans whole peeled tomatoes shopping list
- 1 small can tomato paste shopping list
- 1/2 onion shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic shopping list
- oregano shopping list
- basil shopping list
- rosemary shopping list
- thyme shopping list
- pinch sugar shopping list
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- Ziti: shopping list
- Ingredients shopping list
- 1 1/2 boxes Ziti (Rigatone or any tube pasta works as well) shopping list
- 1 big ricotta cheese shopping list
- 3 or 4 cups shredded mozzarella shopping list
- Romano grated shopping list
- Parmesan grated shopping list
- 6 slices of provolone shopping list
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- Final Assembly shopping list
- Ingredients: shopping list
- Big Casserole dish (11x9 ok; 13x9 preferable); Glass or metal works fine shopping list
How to make it
- 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
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- After hours slaving away making this beautiful dish, feel free to pour yourself a glass or two of red wine and dig in.
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
Fantastic and it's made from scratch - love it.
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in My Kitchen loved it
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Nice dish :)
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