Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, baked ziti. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baked ziti is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Baked ziti is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baked ziti using 15 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked ziti:

1. Take 1 packages ziti pasta
2. Prepare 1 lb ground beef cooked
3. Get 1/4 medium onion, diced (@ 3 tablespoons)
4. Make ready 8 oz mushrooms, sliced
5. Get 3 clove garlic, chopped
6. Make ready 28 oz can whole peeled can tomatoes in puree, roughly chopped
7. Make ready 1 sprig fresh thyme or 1/2 tsp
8. Get 1 sprig fresh basil or 1 tsp
9. Get 1 fresh ground black pepper
10. Prepare 1 kosher salt
11. Make ready 1 pinch crushed red pepper or to taste
12. Get 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan, divided
13. Make ready 1/4 cup grated pecorino romano
14. Prepare 1 lb fresh mozzarella, grated
15. Get 1 lb ziti

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 oven to 400°F
2. Cook pasta until tender but firm, about 6 minutes
3. Cook burger in a medium sause pan
4. Add onion and mushroom when burger is about halfway done
5. Add garlic, cook for about 1 minute
6. Add tomatoes, thyme and basil
7. Bring to a boil
8. Lower heat. simmer covered for 10 min
9. Discard sprigs
10. Stir in salt and pepper to taste
11. Combine pasta and marinara sauce in a big bowl
12. Add 1/4 cup of parmesan, pecorino, half the mozzarella
13. Season with black pepper and red pepper
14. Mix well
15. Transfer the pasta to an oiled 9x13 inch baking dish
16. Top with remaining mozzarella and parmesan
17. Bake until lightly brown, about 25 minutes

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