How to Make Appetizing Baked Ziti

Baked Ziti.

You can cook Baked Ziti using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Baked Ziti

1. Prepare of dry ziti pasta.
2. You need of onion, chopped.
3. It's of italian sausage (or ground beef...I like ground sausage better).
4. It's of minced garlic.
5. Prepare of italian seasoning.
6. It's of jars of spaghetti sauce (26 oz each).
7. Prepare of provolone cheese (9-12 round slices).
8. You need of sour cream.
9. You need of mozzarella cheese.
10. It's of grated parmesan cheese.
11. It's of butter.

Baked Ziti step by step

1. Cook pasta according to package..
2. In a large skillet, brown onion and sausage ovef medium heat. Drain the fat. Add minced garlic and cook for a minute or so. Add spaghetti sauce and Italian seasoning and simmer for 15 mins..
3. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9x13 baking dish. Layer as follows: 1/2 of the ziti, 1/2 of the sauce mixture, provolone cheese, sour cream, remaining ziti, remaining sauce mixture and then sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top then the grated parmesan cheese..
4. Bake for 30 minutes in ghe preheated oven or until cheeses are melted. You may want to cover it for the first 20 minutes with foil and then let the cheese melt and brown for the last 10 minutes..
5. Optional: Serve with garlic knots (our fav) or garlic toast. Enjoy!.