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Easy Baked Ziti

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This is one of my latest favorites.  It’s easy, common ingredients and it tastes good.

I’m not sure how I came upon this recipe, but I found it on 10minutedinners.com.  Besides the ricotta cheese, I usually have all of the ingredients in my kitchen.  I tend to buy multiple boxes of pasta, then put them into uniform rubbermaid containers in my cupboards.  The 5 types that I always have on hand are farfalle (butterfly), elbows, rotini and penne and thin spaghetti.  This recipe calls for ziti, I have used a mixture of penne and rotini before when I have been low on one and it doesn’t make a difference in taste.  The beauty of this recipe too, is that you can use any type of pasta sauce you want.  If you pick a chunkier sauce, it will have more texture in the dish, and if you use a thinner sauce, you can add more italian seasoning, or other seasonings as you wish.     It makes plenty of servings so that there are always leftovers and the best part of all, is that you can just throw everything in and then put it in the oven.  No pre-cooking of the noodles needed! (My favorite part)

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Ingredients

  • 1 jar favorite tomato-based pasta sauce (26 ounces)
  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 1 container ricotta cheese (15 ounces)
  • 1/4 grated Parmesan cheese
  • 1 package grated mozzarella cheese (8 ounces)
  • 1 box ziti (8 ounces)
  • 1 tb. Italian seasoning *
  • Minced garlic*
  • garlic salt, garlic powder *
  • *optional

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Very tasty and with minimal prep, very easy to make with 2 children running around.  Just be aware in your menu planning that it does take 55 minutes to cook.  It will also be very hot when it comes out so be sure to let it sit for awhile before feeding it to kids.