Baked Ziti
Aug. 30th, 2018 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebBy request, here is my baked ziti recipe. Actually it is Ragu's baked ziti recipe from an ad in the 4/3/2001 Women's Day magazine. But then of course I changed a bunch of things.
* 1 26-ounce jar Ragu Pasta Sauce (I used HEB Organic tomato basil sauce.)
* 1 1/2 cups water
* 1 15-oz container ricotta cheese (I used cottage cheese.)
* 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (I reserved mine to sprinkle on afterwards, but then did not need it.)
* 2 cups = 8 ounces shredded mozzarella
* 8 ounces uncooked ziti pasta (I used half of a 14.5-ounce box of Barilla ProteinPLUS farfalle, which is bow-tie pasta.)
* (I also used a pound of turkey sausage.)
* (I also used half a small bag of frozen chopped spinach, after chopping it even more finely.)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Combine sauce and water. [Use water to rinse out the sauce jar.] Stir in ricotta, parmesan, and 1 cup mozzarella [and sausage and spinach], then uncooked ziti.
In 13" x 9" baking dish, spoon ziti mixture. [Oops, I mixed it directly in this pan.] Cover with foil and bake 55 minutes. Remove foil and sprinkle with remaiing mozzarella. Bake uncovered 5 more minutes. [I added the mozzarella right away, used no foil, and baked 1 hour. I like the cheese to be golden brown and bubbly. It did not burn.]
Robin thinks mushrooms would also be good in there.
* 1 26-ounce jar Ragu Pasta Sauce (I used HEB Organic tomato basil sauce.)
* 1 1/2 cups water
* 1 15-oz container ricotta cheese (I used cottage cheese.)
* 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (I reserved mine to sprinkle on afterwards, but then did not need it.)
* 2 cups = 8 ounces shredded mozzarella
* 8 ounces uncooked ziti pasta (I used half of a 14.5-ounce box of Barilla ProteinPLUS farfalle, which is bow-tie pasta.)
* (I also used a pound of turkey sausage.)
* (I also used half a small bag of frozen chopped spinach, after chopping it even more finely.)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Combine sauce and water. [Use water to rinse out the sauce jar.] Stir in ricotta, parmesan, and 1 cup mozzarella [and sausage and spinach], then uncooked ziti.
In 13" x 9" baking dish, spoon ziti mixture. [Oops, I mixed it directly in this pan.] Cover with foil and bake 55 minutes. Remove foil and sprinkle with remaiing mozzarella. Bake uncovered 5 more minutes. [I added the mozzarella right away, used no foil, and baked 1 hour. I like the cheese to be golden brown and bubbly. It did not burn.]
Robin thinks mushrooms would also be good in there.