Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sharon's slow cooker baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Yes, you really can make baked ziti (well, "baked" ziti) in your slow cooker. And the result isn't just good ??? it's amazing. What it lacks in the crispy-edges department it gains in the ooey-gooey comfort-food department: tender noodles coated in marinara and mixed with a double dose of melty cheese.
Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have sharon's slow cooker baked ziti using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:
- Prepare Half a large onion (chopped)
- Make ready 2 Lbs ground beef
- Prepare (2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce
- Get 32 oz ricotta cheese
- Prepare 1 egg (beaten)
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 teaspoon pepper
- Prepare 2 Lbs ziti pasta (uncooked)
- Prepare 6 cups colby monterey jack cheese
- Get Non stick cooking spray
Well, this delicious slow cooker recipe gives you fantastic Italian flavors, without you having to turn on your oven! With slow cooker pasta bakes like this, you get to enjoy a. Getting perfectly cooked pasta and gooey melted cheese from the slow cooker takes some technique. Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is an easy crock pot pasta dinner that's perfect for weeknight meals.
Steps to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:
- Brown ground beef and onion in large skillet; Drain fat.
- Return ground beef to skillet and mix both jars of pasta sauce with ground beef; Remove from heat.
- In a bowl mix ricotta cheese, egg, salt, and pepper
- Turn the slower cooker to high
- Spray slower cooker with non stick spray
- Spoon the sauce into the bottom of the slower cooker; Enough to evenly coat the bottom
- Spoon the ricotta cheese mixture on top of the sauce evenly coated
- Pour uncooked ziti noodles on top of ricotta cheese evenly coated
- Sprinkle colby cheese on top of pasta evenly coated
- Repeat steps 6-9 until you reach the top of slow cooker; making sure the final layer is a generous amount of colby cheese
- Put the top on slow cooker; cook for 4 hours or until pasta is tender. Avoid opening the slow cooker while cooking.
- Enjoy!!
The pasta cooks right in the sauce! I've made countless slow cooker dinners and breakfasts and even cooked rolls and cinnamon rolls in them. Seriously, there isn't much that a slow cooker can't do! Get the cheesy, slow-cooked flavor found in a traditional Baked Ziti right out of your pressure cooker! This recipe was so so good that I needed to bump it to the top.
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