Easy Baked Ziti With Meat

Baked Ziti with meat is a comfort food dish that you'll go back for again and again. This luscious baked ziti recipe will knock your socks off!
This baked ziti recipe is very versatile and adaptive. We could eat this happily every day for the rest of our lives, it’s a major family pleaser. Add some hidden veggies to the formula, think spinach, peas, carrots...etc. Or maybe, use a different cheese mixture, play with the kind of meat, use sausage, spike up the sauce with additional herbs... trust me you can change this recipe and have it every single day with a totally new flavor. Nobody will ever complain.

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Ingredients

▢2 Tablespoons oil.
▢1 small onion diced.
▢2 garlic cloves crushed
▢1.5 lb ground beef.
▢1/2 teaspoon cardamom ground.
▢1/4 teaspoon cinnamon ground.
▢1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper.
▢1.5 teaspoon dried oregano.
▢Salt to taste.
▢1 29 oz can tomato sauce.
▢1 cup broth I’ve used chicken.
▢1 16oz package ziti pasta, cooked and drained.
▢2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese.
▢1 cup grated parmesan cheese.

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F.
In a large skillet over medium heat, saute onion and garlic in oil. Add beef and cook until no longer pink.
Drain the fat then return to stovetop.
Add seasonings and mix well.
Add tomato sauce and broth then stir to combine. Cook until bubbly and hot all through.
Stir about 1.5 cup of the meat sauce into the cooked pasta.
Put half of the pasta in the bottom of a 13x9 baking dish. To that with 1 cup of mozzarella and 1/2 cup of pares am cheese.
Add the remaining sauce then the rest of the pasta, cover and pop in the oven for 20 minutes.
Uncover and sprinkle the remaining cheese on top and put back in the oven for 10 more minutes or until cheese is melting or until it is golden brown if you would like it that way.
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