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

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sharon's slow cooker baked ziti using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:
  1. Get Half a large onion (chopped)
  2. Make ready 2 Lbs ground beef
  3. Take (2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce
  4. Get 32 oz ricotta cheese
  5. Take 1 egg (beaten)
  6. Get 1 teaspoon salt
  7. Make ready 1 teaspoon pepper
  8. Prepare 2 Lbs ziti pasta (uncooked)
  9. Get 6 cups colby monterey jack cheese
  10. Make ready Non stick cooking spray

Short pasta like macaroni, penne, rotini, and others work best in this Slow Cooker Baked Ziti because they're less likely to clump and stick together. Long pasta cuts like spaghetti and fettucini are doable, but you may have to stir a couple more times in between. Turn your slow cooker to high when you add your pasta. Oh so easy to make, this delicious 'baked' ziti is made in your slow cooker so there's no need to turn the oven on.

Steps 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!!

And since pasta dishes cook more quickly in the slow cooker than meat dishes, you can enjoy a bowl of this hot 'baked' ziti in just a few hours. Baked ziti usually requires multiple steps: cooking the pasta, making the sauce, layering in the cheese, and, finally, baking everything in the oven. Our goal was to simplify the process by making this classic dish in a slow cooker. Rinse uncooked pasta, drain, and set aside. Pour remaining meat sauce over the top and place the lid on the slow cooker.

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