Oven-baked pasta and tomato sauce are super easy

Ziti is an Italian-American oven dish that tastes like tomato and cheese. Mari Moilanen

Have you already tasted ziti, a succulent pasta fry that is an American-Italian delicacy? Oven food Ziti is more handy than lasagna, as the cheese delicacy does not need white sauce, and canned tomato sauce is suitable.

Ziti may not be familiar as a name, but the idea for ziti is guaranteed to be. It is a lasagna-like macaroni frying, in which a tasty tomato sauce, pasta and a rich satsi cheese are mashed in the oven to a succulent fry. Ziti is comfort food at its best without the labor associated with lasagna.

This is how you succeed

1. Ziti paste is used for Ziti according to the name of the baking. Ziti is a tube-shaped, pasta-like but straight pasta tube.

If desired, Zit can be more easily replaced with a penny paste found in stores. The pen is also tube-shaped, but is recognizable by the oblique cut and grooves on the surface of the tube. Penne also works well, as the sauce is deliciously wrapped in its grooves.

2. To prevent the ziti from becoming dry, the tomato marinara sauce should be sprinkled well into the ziti frying pan.

3. Because ziti is a vegetarian food, it requires a large amount of cheese to taste. The best ziti is created when several types of cheeses are used in the food, such as ricotta and parmesan or pecorino and mozzarella.

Some of the cheeses should be very digestible – like mozzarella – and some should have plenty of flavor – like parmesan or pecorino. During the assembly of the pan, the cheese is also slid between the layers of pasta to ensure maximum juiciness.

4. A handy hostess prepares ziti the night before in the fridge or even the week before in the freezer and puts tasty everyday food in the oven without major preparations if necessary.

Ziti or pasta

(For 6 people)

800 g of prepared marinade sauce

tai

Tomato sauce

1 yellow onion

3 cloves of garlic

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon sugar

½ teaspoon chili flakes

2 teaspoons (each 400 g) of pasteurized tomatoes, eg Mutti passata

½ teaspoon of black pepper from the mill

500 g of Ziti paste

Cheese sauce

250 g of ricotta

100 g of grated parmesan

½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

a pinch of salt

300 g grated mozzarella

1. Chop the onions and saute them in oil in a pan. Add spices and mashed tomato. Boil the sauce, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes. In the meantime, cook the pasta in salted water according to the instructions on the package.

2. Grate the parmesan, mix half of the grater and spices with the ricotta. Stir half of the tomato sauce into the cooked pasta, then add the ricotta mixture to the pasta. Stir lightly.

3. Spread half of the pasta in a greased baking dish, add half of the mozzarella on top and cover with the rest of the pasta. Pour over the other half of the sauce and spread over the rest of the grated mozzarella and half of the grated parmesan.

4. Bake the ziti in a 200 degree oven for 25-30 minutes. Allow the pasta to set for a moment before serving. Serve with green salad.

The story was first published in November 2019.