Rachel Tufaro's Baked Ziti

By á-5765

A hearty pasta dish with a flavor of the old country.

Ingredients

• 16 oz. ricotta cheese
• 1 cup fresh chopped parsley
• 2 eggs lightly beaten
• salt and pepper
• 2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
• 3 cups marinara sauce warm and preferably home-made

Preparation

Step 1

Cook the ziti al dente. Don’t let them get too soft.

Stir the beaten eggs into the ricotta cheese. Add the parsley, salt, and pepper.

Add the cooked ziti to the cheese mixture.

Grease or non-stick spray a 9 x 13 inch casserole.

Put a layer of marinara sauce in the casserole.

Next, a layer of the ziti.

Next, a sprinkling of the mozzarella.

Keep doing layers till you run out of ingredients.

Top with sauce, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese.

Bake covered at 350° for 25 minutes.
Uncover.

Bake an additional 10 minutes to brown top.