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Baked Ziti is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Baked Ziti is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have baked ziti using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:

1. Take 1 lb Hot or sweet Italian turkey sausage
2. Prepare 1 onion, chopped
3. Make ready 3 clove sliced garlic
4. Prepare 28 oz plain diced tomatoes
5. Get 15 oz tomato sauce
6. Prepare 2 tsp sugar
7. Take 1/4 tsp salt
8. Get 1/4 tsp pepper
9. Make ready 14 1/2 oz basil and oregano diced tomatoes
10. Get 1 tsp dried basil leaves or half cup fresh basil chopped
11. Take 16 oz Ziti
12. Prepare 8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
13. Take 1 packages sliced provolone
14. Prepare 1/4 cup grated parmesan or romano cheese

Carefully add the meat sauce and stir until thoroughly combined. Baked Ziti is a classic baked pasta dish. 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, then you use mostaciolli noodles. Some people just use tomato/marinara sauce.

Instructions to make Baked Ziti:

1. Preheat the oven to 375. Crumble the sausage into a 3 quart saucepan. Cook for 8 minutes or until no pink remains. Drain the fat.
2. In another pot, add the onion and saute for about 4 minutes until soft. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the plain tomatoes with their juice. Stir in the sauce, sugar, salt, and pepper. Simmer, stirring occasionally for 20 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the sausage, seasoned tomatoes, and the basil.
3. Boil the Ziti, drain, then return to the pot. Coat the Ziti in just enough sauce to coat it. Layer half of the Ziti in a 13 by 9 pan. Top with the provolone overlapping the slices as needed. Add the rest of the Ziti, then the mozzarella cheese. Pour the last of the sauce over the top and sprinkle with parmesan and romano cheese. Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes until bubbly around the edges and lightly brown. Let it cool for 10 minutes and enjoy!
4. Optional: save some of the mozzarella as a topping and add extra seasonings on top before placing it in the oven.

That, of course, would never fly in this house. Baked ziti is an Italian-American casserole of ziti noodles with Marinara Sauce, ricotta, and cheese. The combination of mozzarella and parmesan is our secret to making the BEST Baked Ziti! Our baked ziti recipe is a dish all cooks should have in their repertoire. Baked macaroni dishes like ziti combine cooked pasta with a sauce, vegetable, and/or meat – and plenty of cheese.

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