Ziti is one of those dishes whose recipe you need to save for a special get together where you want to impress your friends at. this fulfilling and heavenly dish will have your guests raving about it for days on end and there is a good chance that none of the delicious Ziti will remain once the party is over.
Ingredients
uncooked ziti pasta: 16 ounces
cups of spaghetti sauce: 3 1/2
cups of ricotta cheese: 2
cups of shredded mozzarella cheese: 2
chopped fresh parsley: 1/4 cup
slightly beaten egg: 1
oregano: 1 tsp
Garlic powder: 1/2 tsp
pepper: 1/4 tsp
grated parmesan cheese: 1 tbsp
cooking or oil of your choice
How To Make Best Ziti
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees
- In a large saucepan pour water till it fills more than half of the pot. Put in Ziti and let it boil till the pasta become soft. Drain the pasta and then put it aside to cool.
- Take a large bowl and combine the ziti, 1 ½ cups of spaghetti sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, parsley, egg, oregano, garlic powder, and pepper together and mix well.
- Spray the cooking spray cooking spray is usually used because it requires less clean up) or brush the oil of your choice on the base of a 9 x 13 baking pan.
- Pour the ½ cup of spaghetti sauce and then spread the ziti mixture all over the sauce evenly.
- Top the bed of ziti and spaghetti sauce with the remaining spaghetti sauce to form layers of the sauce, evenly.
- On top of that add grated parmesan and mozzarella cheese to amplify the taste.
- Cover the baking dish with a foil or a lid made specifically for baking purposes and put it to bake for 35 minutes, or till you can see the bubbles forming.
Trivia
Parsley
The Ancient Romans used to love parsley. Pliny, first century AD, wrote that no Roman salad or sauce would go without having parsley included into it. in fact, parsley was so recognized for its taste and nutrition that people of all classes consumed it.
The Ancient Greeks believed that when you pluck the spring of a parsley while saying the name of one’s enemy, it would bring death to that enemy. They used to believe that parsley came about from the blood of a mythical hero called Archemorous, which spilled out when he was slain by the dragon.
The nutritive properties of parsley were also used to cure the sick or those who were nearing death.
Parmesan cheese
When a catastrophic earthquake hit the region of Emilia in Italy, thousands of Parmesan cheese wheels had become destroyed. However, the makers of the cheese were able to sell it thanks to the word spreading on the internet, however at a significantly lower price than what it is worth. This saved the most prosperous industry of Italy from bankruptcy.