Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baked ziti variation. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. All the ingredients are layered or tossed into a casserole dish and baked in the oven for less than an hour.

Baked Ziti Variation is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Baked Ziti Variation is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have baked ziti variation using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti Variation:

1. Take 48 oz spaghetti or tomato sauce
2. Make ready 3 lb Ground beef
3. Take 1 lb spicy Italian sausage
4. Prepare 32 oz tri color Garden Rotini Pasta
5. Take 32 oz ricotta cheese
6. Take 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
7. Get 1/4 cup grated Extra sharp white cheddar cheese
8. Take 1/4 cup grated Monterey jack cheese
9. Prepare 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
10. Get 16 oz sliced mozzarella cheese
11. Make ready 1/2 cup merlot red wine
12. Take 2 clove garlic (minced)
13. Prepare 4 eggs (whisked)
14. Get 1 tsp fresh basil (chopped)
15. Take 1 tsp oregano (chopped)
16. Take 1/2 tsp rosemary (chopped)
17. Get 1/2 tsp thyme (chopped)
18. Make ready 1/4 cup parsley (chopped)
19. Make ready 1 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
20. Make ready 4 medium mushrooms (minced)
21. Get 1 pinch lemon pepper
22. Prepare 1 pinch White or black pepper
23. Prepare 1 pinch Sweet chili powder
24. Make ready 2 pinch crushed sea salt

Feel free to customize the ziti recipe with your favorite ingredients. Meat: You can swap the Italian sausage for ground beef or pork or use a combination of beef (or pork) and sausage. You could even use ground turkey for the meat. Pasta: Other pasta varieties will work.

Instructions to make Baked Ziti Variation:

1. In small sauce pan, saute mushrooms, garlic, rosemary and thyme with olive oil. carefully add merlot. and let simmer for 20 mins.
2. in large sauce pan with medium heat, add spaghetti sauce, oregano. carefully add ingredients from saute pan into sauce. let simmer for 45 mins to an hour or more depending on preference.
3. brown the ground beef and spicy sausage and drain grease, then set aside.
4. in large mixing bowl, add ricotta, eggs, basil, parsley, cheddar, jack, parmesan, feta and dry seasonings, with large spoon mix until blended.
5. boil dry pasta for 6 minutes until al-dente or use fresh and then mix with spaghetti sauce until covered.
6. preheat oven to 350
7. in 2 13x9 deep baking or casserole pans layer pasta on bottom, then layer ground beef and sausage then cover with ricotta cheese mix, then layer again with pasta topped with slices of mozzarella. do the same for both. bake in oven for 45 mins or until cheese bubbles on top or for 75 mins if you like your top layer slightly crunchy. let cool for 5 mins, dish out and enjoy with a side of garlic toast and a glass of red wine.

Baked ziti variations You can easily customize this dish to add other flavors to the mix. Meat: You can use all ground beef or all sausage instead of a combination of beef and sausage. Feel free to use ground turkey instead of beef. Just think about it: also the mac and cheesecan be seen as a variation of this baked ziti recipe, without forgetting my (extremely) loved Italian pasta au gratin. And, if you want to think big, a classic Italian lasagnais also a type of baked pasta.

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