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Things Every Professional Recipe For Baked Ziti Should Contain

By Mike Jones


Baked ziti is an Italian pasta dish that is definitely to die for. Sugar cookies are very easy to prepare, but not as easy as this delightful recipe. It is a dish that is best served with some bread and light green salad. This is a uniquely tantalizing cuisine that your family would like to have almost every day. The following simple steps will guarantee you an amazingly delicious dish.

For the ziti ingredients, you'll need 450g dried pasta; 820ml quick marinara sauce; 10g salt; 450g mozzarella (half thinly sliced and half cut into 1cm cubes); 75g grated parmesan (freshly grated and divided); Pinch of red pepper flakes and Freshly ground black pepper. With the method for for the Ziti, first, preheat the oven up to 200^(0)C/Gas 6. Heat water in a large pot until you bring it to the boil, add salt generously and then boil the pasta until it is tender but ensure it is still firm, then drain it. Toss the cooked pasta with marinara sauce in a large sized bowl, adding in the cubed mozzarella pieces, black pepper, 30g of Parmesan and the red pepper flakes.

Take a 23cm by 33cm baking dish, oil it well and then pour in the pasta into it. The top of the pasta is then covered with the sliced mozzarella. Use the Parmesan that is remaining to sprinkle it over.

Bake till it is lightly browned. This will take approximately half an hour. Once it is ready, serve it immediately.

Requirements for marinara sauce are Extra-virgin olive oil, 2tbsp; Well diced medium sized onion; Canned tomatoes, 800g (peeled and chopped); Chopped cloves garlic (3); Salt, 12g; Fresh basil sprig; Fresh thyme sprig and Freshly ground black pepper.

Once this is done, remove the herb sprigs and discard them. Add in the salt and then season with pepper to taste. It can be used immediately or alternatively it can be covered and stored in a refrigerator for a period of up to 3 days.

Dispose the sprigs of herb after removing them from the saucepan. Add in the salt as you use pepper to season it and to improve the taste. The sauce can be used immediately or can be stored inside the fridge, although it can only last up to 3 days only. It can last for up to two months if it is frozen. Baked ziti in marinara sauce is a tasty dish that would become one of your family's comfort foods.




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