Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti
Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

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This easy Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is a perfect meal for those busy weeknights during the summer. 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.

Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
  1. Take Half a large onion (chopped)
  2. Take 2 Lbs ground beef
  3. Prepare (2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce
  4. Prepare 32 oz ricotta cheese
  5. Get 1 egg (beaten)
  6. Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
  7. Get 1 teaspoon pepper
  8. Get 2 Lbs ziti pasta (uncooked)
  9. Get 6 cups colby monterey jack cheese
  10. Take Non stick cooking spray

Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is an easy crock pot pasta dinner that's perfect for weeknight meals. 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!

Instructions to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:
  1. Brown ground beef and onion in large skillet; Drain fat.
  2. Return ground beef to skillet and mix both jars of pasta sauce with ground beef; Remove from heat.
  3. In a bowl mix ricotta cheese, egg, salt, and pepper
  4. Turn the slower cooker to high
  5. Spray slower cooker with non stick spray
  6. Spoon the sauce into the bottom of the slower cooker; Enough to evenly coat the bottom
  7. Spoon the ricotta cheese mixture on top of the sauce evenly coated
  8. Pour uncooked ziti noodles on top of ricotta cheese evenly coated
  9. Sprinkle colby cheese on top of pasta evenly coated
  10. Repeat steps 6-9 until you reach the top of slow cooker; making sure the final layer is a generous amount of colby cheese
  11. Put the top on slow cooker; cook for 4 hours or until pasta is tender. Avoid opening the slow cooker while cooking.
  12. Enjoy!!

Yes, you really can make baked ziti (well, "baked" ziti) in your slow cooker. And the result isn't just good โ€” 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. Two jars of marinara sauce and three kinds of cheese provide the satisfying flavor. To avoid Pasta Mush, you want to start with uncooked ziti noodles.

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