Tasty Baked Ziti

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, Tasty Baked Ziti. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Tasty Baked Ziti is 6 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Tasty Baked Ziti estimated approx 4hrs with prep.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have Tasty Baked Ziti using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Recently I wanted some authentic baked ziti. Not sure WHY I wanted it, but the savory sauce, ricotta cheese flavor and melted mozzarella sounded good. So I called up a local established Italian joint and ordered some salad and dinners. It was horrible.. The sauce was burnt and they uses WAY to much if it. Hardly any noodles and the cheese was not great quality either. So I set out to make my own based on some memories of when i worked in the restaurant world. I worked for a Luciano "lou" Fierabrachi in Nassua NY - he was from Italy and MAN could this guy cook! 4 years i worked for him and almost bought the place so he could retire. This recipe is based off of his, but not exact since it has been some 20 plus years since I worked there.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Tasty Baked Ziti:

1. 1 pound italian sweet sausage
2. 1 pound ground beef
3. 1 onion finely chopped
4. 1 jar quality sauce (unless you want to make your own the day before)
5. 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
6. 1 can roasted diced tomatoes
7. 1 box ziti, rigatoni or penne - your choice
8. Ricotta cheese
9. Mozzarella cheese
10. Italian Seasoning
11. table sugar
12. crushed dry or fresh basil shredded
13. olive oil
14. 1 small can of tomato paste

Steps to make to make Tasty Baked Ziti

1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, add in some olive oil and drop in pasta. Let it cook while you handle the next step - but drain it as SOON as it is soft enough. To soft and it is ruined.
2. Chop onion and garlic and begin sweating half of the onions in the heated oil - add in half the garlic once the onion reaches pliability. Chunk up the sausage and ground beef and add to the pan cooking it thoroughly. Drain and set aside
3. In a large sauce pan add in the sauce, remaining onions and garlic, the spices and sugar and the diced tomato and tomato paste. Set this up to simmer over the next few hours stirring frequently. Halfway through the simmer add in the drained meat. The length of simmer guarantees all the flavors meld together and soak into the meats. You can shorten this for brevity, but you will loose flavor.
4. Once you feel the sauce is to your liking (I taste often and add in salt or basil or thyme as it is cooking) take it off the burner. Add a few spoonful of the sauce to the bottom of your baking dish (I use a casserole dish because of the depth).
   Start with a layer of noodles, then a light layer of the hot sauce and spoon in (lightly) dollops of ricotta spreading it around. A light layer of mozzarella cheese on top of that and then add noodles again evenly layered.
5. Then heavier on the sauce this time some more ricotta (do not over do this - it is rich and spreads around when heated) and more mozz.
   Top layer is light noodle and heavy mozz.
6. Put the baking dish on a sheet pan for easier pick up later. Take tin for and Tent the dish, do not cover it tightly and slide into a preheated 350 degree oven. Cook for about 30 - 40 minutes. Take tented foil off 5 minutes before time is up and see if the cheese is bubbling... then you know it is done.
   I like to hit broil for a few minutes after to get that top layer nice and crunchy.
7. Let the dish site for 10 minutes to settle and then service with some good bread and olive oil dipping mixture and enjoy!
8. Leftovers are best heated in a fry pan with a splash of milk. Cover and let the milk work its magic. Stir it up a few time and then get that bread to sop up all the yum juice. The pasta tastes even better after this.

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