Cheesy Potluck Baked Ziti

Any time of year, Cheesy Potluck Baked Ziti will feed a crowd. It’s an easy make-ahead meal that will be ready when they are.

I call this Cheesy Potluck Baked Ziti because it’s cheesy (yea!) and the recipe is large enough to feed a crowd. My son and his wife, my daughter, and my other son were all coming over on a Sunday afternoon. The girls and I had a full afternoon planned to decorate Christmas cookies and the guys were going to take in whatever Sunday afternoon sports show they could find. The night before I decided I would make a baked ziti and some herb bread to pop in the oven whenever the Sunday crew got hungry.

As it turns out, good thing I made my large batch of ziti because our casual cooking decorating turned into several other “guys” coming by to watch a college wrestling tournament on a station that they even had to pay to watch. My Cheesy Potluck Baked Ziti was a big hit; they ate everything in sight, including several of our cookies.

Potluck Baked Ziti

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• Author: krazykitchenmom
• Total Time: 1 hour
• Yield: 14 servings 1x

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Any time of year, Cheesy Potluck Baked Ziti will feed a crowd. It’s an easy make-ahead meal that will be ready when they are.

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Ingredients

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• 2 1-lbs. boxes of ziti pasta noodles
• 1 lbs. Italian sausage
• 1 lbs. Ground beef
• 2 cups pasta sauce
• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 1 cup finely grated parmesan cheese
• 2 eggs
• 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• Salt and pepper

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Instructions

1. Cook ziti according to package timing minus 2 minutes.
2. Brown Italian sausage and ground beef (be sure to drain off any excess liquid)
3. In a bowl, mix eggs, ricotta, and parmesan.
4. Preheat oven to 350°
5. Add red pepper flakes to pasta sauce
6. Mix together cooked ziti, pasta sauce, browned meats and ricotta mixture.
7. Season with salt and pepper.
8. Fold in 2 1/2 cups of mozzarella cheese.
9. Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
10. Remove the foil; add the remaining 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, bake for another 10-15 minutes.

Notes

For the vegetarian version of this recipe omit the ground beef and sausage.

• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 45 minutes