Amy's Baked Ziti
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1 lb cavatelli (pasta)
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 3⁄4 cup white onion, diced
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1⁄2 tablespoon olive oil
- 3⁄4 cup frozen chopped spinach, cut in small pieces
- 1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 2 cups part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1⁄4 cup fresh basil leaf, torn
- 1⁄2 cup fat free feta cheese, crumbled
- 4 cups tomato sauce
- 4 slices sharp provolone cheese (deli)
directions
- In a large pot, boil the pasta until it is almost cooked, drain and return to pot.
- In a skillet, sauté onion, garlic and chopped spinach until the onions are tender.
- Remove from pan.
- Using the same pan, brown ground beef, drain grease and let stand on a paper towel to drain further.
- In a medium bowl, combine ricotta, basil and the onion mixture.
- Combine pasta, tomato sauce, meat, ricotta onion mixture, feta and mozzarella and stir until even.
- Pour into 2 9x9-inch baking dishes, top with provolone slices and bake at 450° for about 20 minutes.
- Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
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My name is Amy and I live in CT. I love to cook and try new recipes. My kitchen is my favorite room in my house and where I spend most of my time!
Both my parents were always cooking, mom baked and dad did everything except baking. Some of my recipes come from my grandmother, Nell, but have been updated. The rest fly out of my head in the middle of the night...or are things I have seen in magazines, cookbooks and on TV twisted around to my liking. I find it hard to follow a recipe, but I am trying to do that without changing them all the time.