Steps to Prepare Award-winning Tony's Baked Ziti

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, tony's baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tony's Baked Ziti is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Tony's Baked Ziti is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tony's baked ziti using 24 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tony's Baked Ziti:

1. Get Pasta
2. Make ready ziti
3. Take salt
4. Take Red Sauce
5. Get sausage
6. Get garlic (medium), diced
7. Get fresh spinach leaves, shredded
8. Prepare feta cheese
9. Make ready pepper
10. Prepare salt
11. Make ready and 1/2 tsp dried oregano
12. Take and 1/2 tsp dried basil
13. Get dried thyme
14. Prepare cans of San Marzano tomatoes, removed and diced
15. Make ready fresh basil (chopped)
16. Get White Sauce
17. Prepare cream cheese spread
18. Take ricotta
19. Get shredded mozzarella cheese
20. Make ready parmesan cheese
21. Make ready Topping
22. Prepare shredded mozzarella
23. Prepare parmesan cheese (shredded)
24. Take fresh basil (shredded)

Instructions to make Tony's Baked Ziti:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Bring 4 quarts water to roiling boil. Add 1 lb ziti and salt to water and boil for 10 minutes.
2. Reserve 1/3 cup pasta water. Drain pasta and set aside.
3. Brown sausage and diced garlic over medium heat until fully cooked.
4. Reduce heat to medium-low and add spinach until wilted, and toss with feta cheese.
5. Add salt, pepper, oregano, dried basil, thyme, chopped canned tomatoes and pasta water.
6. Cover and simmer for 12 to 14 minutes.
7. While red sauce is simmering, in a large mixing bowl combine ricotta cheese, cream cheese, mozzarella and parmesan until well mixed.
8. When red sauce is finished cooking, add 2 cups of red sauce to white sauce and mix. After mixing, reserve 1 cup of red-white sauce in separate bowl.
9. Add pasta to large mixing bowl and mix.
10. Pour pasta into baking dish. Layer on red-white sauce, red sauce, mozzarella and cheese.
11. Bake for 23 minutes.
12. Broil for 2 minutes on high.
13. Remove from oven and add shredded parmesan cheese. Allow to cool for 5 - 7 minutes and serve.
14. Garnish with fresh basil.

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