Baked Ziti
For this recipe you can make a homemade sauce, or use your favorite jar sauce if you need a quicker option for a homemade meal. If you can't find Ziti noodles, Pene noodles are a good substitute.
Ingredients
- 1 16oz. pkg Ziti noodles
- 1 lb. italian sausage
- 1 ½ lb. lean ground beef
- ½ onion finely chopped
- 3 cups marinara sauce
- 1 lb. sliced mozzarella cheese
- ¼ cup Parmesan cheese grated
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Cook pasta according to package directions and drain.
- Cook sausage and ground beef with onion in a large frying pan over medium heat. Cook until sausage and beef are no longer pink and are crumbly.
- Drain sausage and beef.
- Add marinara sauce and Ziti.
- Layer half of the meat mixture and half of the mozzarella cheese in a 13" x 9" pan coated with cooking spray.
- Add remaining marinara sauce and Ziti and cover with aluminum foil.
- Bake at 350° for 15 minutes.
- Remove foil and add remaining mozzarella cheese and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake an additional 10 minutes.
- Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.