Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sharon's slow cooker baked ziti. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

This Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is made completely in the crockpot — even the pasta! It is so much easier than the traditional version but packs all of the same flavor! Includes step by step recipe video. This Crock Pot Baked Ziti is obviously NOT.

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

This takes only a few minutes to assemble and is really, really good!!! The sauce penetrated the noodles just like a baked pasta should and the cheese was gooey and delicious! Best of all, it was a super cheap meal because the ingredients didn't cost very much at all! Yes, you really can make baked ziti (well, "baked" ziti) in your 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!!

Best of all, it was a super cheap meal because the ingredients didn't cost very much at all! Yes, you really can make baked ziti (well, "baked" ziti) in your slow cooker. And the result isn't just good — 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. Getting perfectly cooked pasta and gooey melted cheese from the slow cooker takes some technique.

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