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Baked Ziti

published by Mrs M on Apr 3, 2009

Baked ziti that is quick and simple to make.

This recipe has many different varieties. I prefer quick and simple, yet I promise it is super delish! My suggestion is to really improvise with some of the ingredients. This isn’t something that you can mess up. If you prefer no parmesean and instead an Italian cheese blend…go for it.

Ingredients

  • 1 bag Penne Ziti Pasta
  • 2 jars of your favorite pasta sauce
  • 12 ounces of Italian blend cheese
  • 1 8oz tub of sour cream
  • 1lb ground beef

Method

  1. Boil ziti till cooked. Drain and set aside
  2. Cook up ground beef. I typically season it with garlic for some extra flavor. Some people switch out the ground beef for an Italian sausage blend.
  3. Heat up pasta sauce. I personally like to add some fresh ingredients to my sauce of choice. So I toss in some mushrooms and fresh garlic. Add in your meat.
  4. Mix together all of your sauce and pasta in a bowl.
  5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  6. Spray large baking pan with some non-stick spray
  7. Toss in half of the pasta mixture
  8. Place half of the sour cheese on top, I use low fat sour cream
  9. Layer half of the cheese on top. Now some people use provolone, mozzarella, and parmesean. I have found that just getting an Italian cheese
  10. Repeat with the remaining ingredients
  11. Bake at 350 for about 30-45 mins. The trick is to make sure that all the cheese and sour cream melt together and get real nice and hot.

This makes a ton of food. When I first made it I didn’t think it would make so much, but we had left overs for 2 days. It really is a great dish. Serve with some garlic bread or veggies! Yummy!

11 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by Darla Cooke
    April 3rd, 2009 at 7:46 am #

    Sounds delicious. I’ll have to give this a try.

  2. # 2 by kate smedley
    April 3rd, 2009 at 8:46 am #

    Will give this a try. I love pasta, sounds delicious

  3. # 3 by clay hurtubise
    April 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 am #

    Sounds yummy, will have to try it!
    Thanks,
    Clay

  4. # 4 by teddybear09
    April 3rd, 2009 at 9:46 pm #

    Sitting in front of his computer, mouth watering, the scent of italian cooking on his nose, teddybear wished he had the ingrediants to make such a dish. A dish that would satisfy the the gods. Baked ziti, he thought, thats what he wanted.

    LOL. Well as you can see you have made me hungry. Baked ziti is one of my favorites. Great job. Thanks for sharing.

  5. # 5 by Duff D Moss
    April 4th, 2009 at 7:07 am #

    I’m gonna give this one a go for srue

  6. # 6 by Zaida Mikaila Siti
    April 5th, 2009 at 7:40 am #

    Siti and Ziti is different. Ziti pasta is delicious.

  7. # 7 by Zaida Mikaila Siti
    April 5th, 2009 at 7:41 am #

    Revision:
    Siti and Ziti are different.

  8. # 8 by CutestPrincess
    April 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am #

    sounds yummy… hmmmm

  9. # 9 by S A JOHNSON
    April 8th, 2009 at 5:50 pm #

    mmmm this sounds great.

  10. # 10 by CT Aisyah
    April 9th, 2009 at 2:56 am #

    love baked ziti … def have to make ziti and salad for dinner tonight!

  11. # 11 by Joshua Miguel
    April 11th, 2009 at 9:09 pm #

    i will definitely try this recipe. sounds yummy

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