Italian Sausage Baked Ziti

6 Servings
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This is a recipe that I found on allrecipes.com and my oldest son loved it and he has made a lot of changes to it. I'm sure mine isn't as good, but we occasionally compare notes on what we're doing differently to change it up. He puts a little wine in his, I think. Maybe this will inspire him to post his..... :-)

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Italian Sausage Baked Ziti Ingredients

1/2 pound Ziti pasta cooked al dente (8 minutes) and drained	4 slices Provolone cheese
1 each Onion chopped	8 ounces Ricotta cheese
1 pound Italian sausage removed from casing	6 ounces Mozzarella cheese shredded
1 3 pound jar Spaghetti Sauce see note	2 tablespoon Parmesan cheese grated

Instructions for Italian Sausage Baked Ziti

Brown the meat and the onion and drain fat. Return the meat and onion back to the pan and add the spaghetti sauce and simmer for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Layer ingredients in a square baking dish. 1 cup of the sauce mixture on the bottom, then half of the pasta, provolone cheese slices, ricotta cheese spread over the provolone cheese. Then add half of the remaining sauce mixture, the remaining pasta, mozzarella cheese, the remaining sauce, and then top with parmesan cheese. Bake for 30 minutes and you may want to bake it on a cookie sheet to prevent splatters in your oven. Serve with crusty bread and a salad, if desired.

Main Ingredient: PastaCuisine: Italian

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Mozzarella

Onion

Parmesan

Provolone

Ricotta

Sausage

Spaghetti Sauce

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My husband loved this.

melder319
on Apr 8 2008 10:49AM

Easy and tasty.

lncnhwyfan
on Nov 8 2007 8:19PM

kidsandi2@yaho.com
on Oct 31 2007 12:23AM

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This looks terrific. Adding it to my try soon recipe box. Thank you!! :)

AnnieBananie
on Sep 29 2007 7:19PM

This is the first baked ziti that I liked. Usually it's too soupy, but this one was perfect. And soooo easy. Thanks!

cscott_1988
on Jul 28 2007 11:18PM

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The last time I made this, I had some of the Slow Cooked Spaghetti Sauce (http://www.bigoven.com/recipe159579) leftover that I had frozen and it makes very good sauce for the ziti. I had made it as a marinara sauce without the meat.