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Baked Ziti and Pepper with Meat Sauce
Author: Pizza Today
Recipe type: entrees
Ingredients
- 8 pounds ziti
- 1 recipe meat sauce
- 3 pounds ricotta cheese
- 4 pounds mozzarella cheese, grated or shredded
Instructions
- Cook ziti until just short of al dente. Drain well.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine ziti with meat sauce.
- In a baking pan that measures 12x20x4-inches high, spoon half the ziti and sauce mixture. Top with half of the ricotta and half of the mozzarella. Repeat above in a second pan of the same size.
- Cover pan loosely with aluminum foil and bake in a preheat 375 degree oven for 20 minutes. Remove foil and bake an additional 10 minutes.
- Cut into portion sizes of about 4x6 inches. Top each portion with additional sauce.
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Baked Ziti and Pepper with Meat Sauce
Author: Pizza Today
Recipe type: entrees
Ingredients
- Meat Sauce
- ½ cup olive oil
- 4 pounds ground pork
- 8 pounds ground chuck
- 4 large green bell peppers, cored and chopped
- 2 large onion, chopped
- ¼ cup fennel seeds
- ½ cup finely chopped garlic
- 1 cup dry wine
- 1 #10 cans ground whole pear tomatoes or tomato puree
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon salt
- ¼ cup dried basil, crumbled
Instructions
- Put the olive oil in a large pot.
- Over medium heat, sauté the meats, peppers, onions, fennel, garlic and wine until the meat is just cooked through, about 20 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes and remaining ingredients.
- Bring the sauce to a boil.
- Turn the heat down and simmer the sauce for at least one hour, but no longer than 1 ½ hours.
