Name: Italian Sausage Baked Ziti
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1/2 pound Ziti pasta cooked al dente (8 minutes) and drained; 1 Onion; 1 pound Italian sausage removed from casing; 1 3-lb jar Spaghetti sauce see note; 4 slices Provolone cheese; 8 ounces Ricotta cheese; 6 ounces Mozzarella cheese shredded; 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese

by Beachbumette

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..... :-)

INGREDIENTS

1/2 pound Ziti pasta ; cooked al dente (8 minutes) and drained
1 Onion
1 pound Italian sausage ; removed from casing
1 3-lb jar Spaghetti sauce ; see note
4 slices Provolone cheese
8 ounces Ricotta cheese
6 ounces Mozzarella cheese ; shredded
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese

Servings

INSTRUCTIONS

Brown the meat and onion and then drain fat. Return the meat and onion back to the pan and add the spaghetti sauce. Simmer meat and sauce for 15 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Layer ingredients in a square baking dish in the following order:

Pour 1 cup of the sauce mixture on the bottom.

Add half of the pasta, half of the provolone cheese slices, and half of the ricotta cheese (spreading ricotta) over the provolone cheese.

Add half of the remaining sauce, then the remaining pasta and mozzarella and ricotta cheese.

Pour the remaining sauce over the ricotta cheese, and top with parmesan cheese.

Bake for 30 minutes on a cookie sheet to prevent splatters in your oven. Serve with crusty bread and a salad, if desired.

NOTES

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.

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Italian Sausage Baked Ziti

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

Brown the meat and onion and then drain fat. Return the meat and onion back to the pan and add the spaghetti sauce. Simmer meat and sauce for 15 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Layer ingredients in a square baking dish in the following order:
Pour 1 cup of the sauce mixture on the bottom.
Add half of the pasta, half of the provolone cheese slices, and half of the ricotta cheese (spreading ricotta) over the provolone cheese.
Add half of the remaining sauce, then the remaining pasta and mozzarella and ricotta cheese. 
Pour the remaining sauce over the ricotta cheese, and top with parmesan cheese.

Bake for 30 minutes on a cookie sheet to prevent splatters in your oven.  Serve with crusty bread and a salad, if desired.

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Nutrition

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Serving Size: 1 Serving (441g)
Recipe Makes: 6 Servings

Calories: 765
Calories from Fat: 389 (51%)

Amt Per Serving		% DV

	Total Fat 43.2g	58 %
	Saturated Fat 18.2g	91 %
	Monounsaturated Fat 15.8g
	Polyunsanturated Fat 6.4g
Cholesterol 132.7mg		41 %
Sodium 1875.8mg		65 %
Potassium 1091mg		29 %
Total Carbohydrate 56.9g		17 %
	Dietary Fiber 6.1g	25 %
	Sugars, other 50.7g
Protein 35.4g		51 %
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REVIEWS

skneubuehl

At first I was questioning the amount of sauce but it was the perfect amount. 3 lb. equals 48 ounces so I used 2 24 ounce jars, Loved this!

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tkecraig443

Fantastic!

rob3

I am having a problem with the jar of sauce. The original recipe above calls for a 3LB jar. A regular jar of Classico sauce is 1LB 8OZ (24oz) . We are only going to use 1/2 LB of pasta. To get 3 LB of sauce you would have to use almost three jars. That would float the pasta right out of the dish. What am I missing ? I want to try this but I want to do it correctly. Thank you.

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sfagrad83 3y

It's only 2 jars.

ReverendKen

I loved this, but I found it easier to make my own sausage without casing, I bought two different kinds of meat grinders at second hand stores, and I find them indispensable in my cooking experience, and I believe the large Universal Meat grinder was like Three bucks, and the own I had bought before which is a smaller steel one cost two bucks, I'm happy with both.

sandyiniowa

Very good!!

ljbw

I used Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage ,bell peppers, diced onions with less cheese- Thank you for sharing.... honestly speaking Arlington, Texas

dontrey

best with hawian bread

dontrey

fam. it im now superdad.. all smiles

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