Recipes for Disaster - Ep 19 - Baked Ziti

Recipes for Disaster - Ep 19 - Baked Ziti - twitch.tv/cyborgshadow & twitch.tv/themattabase

Ingredients:

Sauce
1 (28 ounce) cans fire roasted diced tomatoes (Chop to petite)
1 (28 ounce)  crushed tomatoes (or puree such as Pom)
1 lg sweet yellow onion
1 lg green pepper (maybe 2 depending on the size)
3 tablespoons fresh basil
2 cloves garlic
Sugar and basalmic vinager to taste.

- Chop diced tomatoes to petite dice
- Combine all ingredients in sauce pan
- Bring to a simmer

Ziti:
1 box ziti
2 lbs sweet italian sausage
1 large bag (32oz) Mozzarella
1/2 cup grated parmesan
1/2 cup grated gruyere
1/2 cup grated gouda

- In 1 gallon of water, boil 1 box of ziti noodles
- Cook ziti until noodles are soft
- Decase sausage and shred into small chunks
- Brown sausage on stovetop
- Add sausage to sauce
- Strain ziti and return to pot
- In large pot, combine pasta and sauce:
- In large baking dish, place 1 layer of combined pasta/sauce
- Add layer of other cheeses
- Duplicate, making a second layer
- Cover top layer extra liberally with cheese (top layer gets browned)
- Bake at 375 for 20 minutes (Everything's cooked, so we only do this to melt cheese, yummy!)

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