Baked Ziti can be compared to lausuagna but there are differences, and it can taste absolutely amazing, and a very fun dish, doesn’t take a lot of prep time and can be quite tasty, and a crowd pleaser.
You can buy your marinara sauce, or you can buy it, see the link below to our homemade marinara sauce we made.
Its fun, and easy, and it tastes amazing!
Phase 1 Choppy Choppy
So if you have a food processor run these through it to get it almost puried, if you don’t then chop it up as finely as you can.
1 Large onion, a whole garlic, roasted peppers (This is optional, you don’t have to have this.)
Phase 2 Cheese Please!
You will want to grade a lot of parmesan cheese, (You can buy this pre graded.) and your Mozzarella, (please do not buy pre graded.) You are going to need enough of this.
Phase 3 The Noodles
Normally this recipe calls for Ziti noodles, however these are not always easy to get, and in fact, I’ve never been able to find them, penne noodles work just fine.
Cook your noodles either near done, or done according to the package directions, when done drain the water, however do not drain them as we need the starch on it later to help the sauce to stick to the noodles.
Phase 4 The Sauce
Oil your pot and put your onions and ground beef in, cook until the onions are getting cooked, then add the garlic and then roasted garlic , put salt and pepper in.
Put 5 cups of marinara sauce in and mix well.
Put a container of robata cheese in and mix well.
Add your pasta and mix it.
On a casserole dish put a small spread of your meat sauce no noodles.
This way you won’t need to grease our pan.
Pre Heat your oven to 350 degrees.
Now put half of your meat sauce into the pan.
Cover in half your parmesan cheese, and your mozzarella
Now put the rest of your meat sauce in, and cover the rest with cheese.
Now bake it for 25 minutes!
When done leave sit for at least 10 minutes before serving, (other wise your going to have a lot of loss flavor)
Serve!
We hope you like this, its one of our favorite dishes, and we through we would come back to this and share with you our favorite!