Pizza Ziti
Pizza Ziti

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pizza ziti. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Pizza Ziti is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Pizza Ziti is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pizza ziti using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pizza Ziti:
  1. Make ready 1 lb. penne pasta
  2. Get 1 large (24 oz.) jar of Prego flavored with meat sauce (or your preferred tomato sauce)
  3. Prepare 1 lb. shredded mozzarella cheese
  4. Take 1 pouch of pepperoni
  5. Prepare 1/8 tsp. onion powder
  6. Make ready 1/4 tsp. garlic powder
  7. Prepare 1/2 tsp. black pepper
  8. Make ready 1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning

Pepperoni Pizza Ziti Variations You can kick up the spice on this recipe if you like a little kick in your dinner, by adding some crushed red pepper and/or cayenne pepper in the mixture. If you want to minimize the spice (my kids hate spicy things) leave out the fire roasted tomatoes and use regular tomatoes (or have no tomatoes at all). I did a Baked Ziti Pizza. I mean, can life get any better than that?

Instructions to make Pizza Ziti:
    1. Preheat oven to 400. Bring water to a boil, then add penne. Cook until slightly undercooked and almost al dente.
    1. Strain the penne pasta. Grease a 9 by 13 pan with a little bit of vegetable oil or nonstick spray (Pam) to help with less sticking.
    1. I like to add spice to everything I cook, but season the sauce to your taste. It’s up to your preference to how you want to tweak it to your taste. Mix spices into the sauce and then pour over noodles, tossing together until thoroughly coated.
    1. Pour noodles into pan, then layer cheese and pepperoni on top. You can even do half the noodles and put a layer of cheese and pepperoni before adding the rest of the noodles and another layer of cheese and pepperoni on top if desired.
    1. Cover with foil if you prefer it more crisp. Cook in oven for 20-25 minutes.
    1. Let cool and serve. Garnish with parsley if desired.

When I was in college (University of Michigan), there was a pizza place called NYPD. They had a baked ziti pizza that was/is my favorite pizza of all time. Order online from Ziti's Italian Trattoria - Westborough on MenuPages. And used the rest of the ingredients off the recipe. Layered PAM sprayed Pyrex baking dishes like so.

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