Baked Ziti with Sausage
Baked Ziti with Sausage

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baked ziti with sausage. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Baked until bubbly with spaghetti sauce, cheese, and sausage, this is a ziti with a lot of flavor. Cook sausage links according to package directions; drain, cut into ¼-inch slices. In a large bowl, combine sausage slices, pasta, pasta sauce, water, basil, garlic, Parmesan cheese, pepper and mix. A classic pasta bake for busy weeknights, our Baked Ziti with Sausage is a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have baked ziti with sausage using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti with Sausage:
  1. Take 1 lb pasta
  2. Prepare 1 olive oil
  3. Make ready 1 lb bulk sausage
  4. Get 1 large onion, chopped
  5. Make ready 4 clove garlic, minced
  6. Take 1 tbsp italian seasoning
  7. Prepare 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
  8. Make ready 32 oz marinara sauce
  9. Get 8 oz mozzarella cheese
  10. Take 15 oz part-skim ricotta
  11. Get 1/2 cup parmesan, grated
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp fresh basil or rosemary, minced

Spoon half of the sauce over top. Boil a pound of ziti pasta. While the pasta is boiling, cook the sausage. Put both in a large bowl with sauce, cubed mozzarella cheese, and Romano cheese.

Instructions to make Baked Ziti with Sausage:
  1. Cook pasta until al dente in salted water (~1 tbsp salt).
  2. Toss pasta with drizzle of olive oil to prevent sticking.
  3. Heat 1-2 tbsp oil over med-high heat and brown sausage well.
  4. When meat is almost done, add onions and cook 4-5 minutes until translucent and starting to brown.
  5. Add garlic and herbs and cook 1 minute more.
  6. Stir in sauce and bring to simmer.
  7. Preheat oven to 350°F. Spread thin layer of sauce in bottom of casserole dish and dot with ricotta. Ladle some sauce into pasta to coat. Add 1/2 of pasta to dish and cover with more sauce and dots of ricotta. Repeat with remaining.
  8. Sprinkle top with mozzarella and parmesan. Bake until brown and bubbly, about 20 minutes.

While the pasta is boiling, cook the sausage. Put both in a large bowl with sauce, cubed mozzarella cheese, and Romano cheese. Pour it all into a casserole dish and top with shredded mozzarella and more Romano cheese. This Baked Ziti pasta casserole is loaded with Italian Sausage, marinara, ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese and baked to a hot luscious gooey delight. Serve with a simple garden salad and crusty French bread.

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