Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

Name: Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti
Total time: 14400 s
Yield: 6 -8 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Half a large onion (chopped); 2 Lbs ground beef; (2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce; 32 oz ricotta cheese; 1 egg (beaten); 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon pepper; 2 Lbs ziti pasta (uncooked); 6 cups colby monterey jack cheese; Non stick cooking spray

Sharon Ellis @cook_3828401

Ingredients measured for 7 quartz slow cooker

Sharon Ellis @cook_3828401

Ingredients measured for 7 quartz slow cooker

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Ingredients

4 hours on high

6 -8 servings

Halfa large onion (chopped)
2 Lbsground beef
(2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce
32 ozricotta cheese
1egg (beaten)
1 teaspoonsalt
1 teaspoonpepper
2 Lbsziti pasta (uncooked)
6 cupscolby monterey jack cheese
Non stick cooking spray

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Steps

4 hours on high

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!!