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

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sharon's slow cooker baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

We are a family of pasta lovers through and through. Yet I always like to find different variations on the usual. Just like my Baked Chicken Spaghetti.

Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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

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. 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. 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. Pour remaining meat sauce over the top and place the lid on the slow cooker.

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!!

You can make pasta in your slow cooker. This Crock Pot Baked Ziti was made completely in the slow cooker. Cheesy, gooey pasta is a must try in your slow cooker! You don't even have to cook the pasta before. 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.

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