Baked Ziti with Sausage

Here’s a new recipe I’m adding to my recipe stash. 

Preparing the sausage mixture

Before going in the oven

After – as you can see, it was yummy!

 

Ingredients

• 3/4* of a 16 ounce package ziti pasta (* my hubby likes a lot of sauce so I 
  usually cook the whole box and use the leftover pasta for pasta salad later)
• 4 Italian sausage – casing removed and broken into bite size pieces.
• 1/2 onion-chopped
• 1/2 sweet red pepper- chopped
• 15 ounces ricotta cheese
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1 TBS Italian Seasoning
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 (32 ounce) jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce or make your own sauce.
• 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add ziti and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and rinse.
2. Sauté the sausage, onion & peppers and add  spaghetti sauce.
3. In a medium bowl, mix the ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, seasoning and egg
4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
5. Lightly grease a casserole baking dish and lightly cover the bottom with spaghetti sauce. Layer with 1/2 of pasta then with 1/2 of cheese mixture, then some sauce.  Repeat layers, top with remaining spaghetti sauce, followed by Parmesan cheese.
6. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes; let stand for 15 minutes before serving.

Enjoy!