Recipe by Chaya Piatt

Easy Baked Ziti

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5 Servings
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30 Minutes
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A very easy and crowd-pleasing recipe for basic cheesy baked ziti. Kids love it, and this is always on my dinner rotation.

Ingredients

Main ingredients

  • 1 pound (450 grams) ziti noodles such as Tuscanini Penne Pasta

  • 1/2 (500-g.) container cottage cheese, about 1/2 pound (I use 4% cottage cheese)

  • 1/4 cup sour cream or plain yogurt

  • 1/2 – 3/4 cup grated cheese

  • 12 ounces (355 milliliters) tomato sauce (I prefer Gefen Tomato Sauce)

  • salt, to taste

  • pepper, to taste

Directions

Prepare the Baked Ziti

1.

Boil pasta for 10 minutes and drain.

2.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

3.

In a 9 x 13-inch pan, mix tomato sauce with cottage cheese and sour cream until all combined. Add drained pasta and combine.

4.

Sprinkle half a cup of grated cheese on top of pasta mixture (for cheesier pasta, combine one-fourth cup grated cheese into noodles and continue with an extra half cup grated cheese on top).

5.

Bake for 20 minutes.

Easy Baked Ziti

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Rivka
Rivka
2 years ago

Very easy to make. I found it great as a quick recipe when there’s no milk at hand (there are a lot of other zitti recipes that use milk and yogurt seems like a great alternative).
I used pizza sauce and cooked my zitti uncovered. Also, I used a vanilla yogurt. There was a tiny tinge of vanilla to the zitti so I think I’ll go with a plain yogurt next time.
It was a bit messier than other zitti recipes, and the noodles just fell apart when pieces were sliced.
Would I make this again? Totally!

Hana Copack
Hana Copack
3 years ago

Very easy and delicious

Sury Halberstam
Sury Halberstam
3 years ago

I substituted pizza sauce for tomato sauce. Delicious and easy to make