Friday, December 11, 2009

Baked Ziti


This is a super easy meatless meal for a weeknight! And the kids love it so much they both had three servings AND a salad!

Baked
Ziti

Ingredients
1 lb ziti or penne pasta (you could also use rotini; basically whatever you have on hand)
8 oz. low fat/fat free ricotta
1/4 C egg substitute (equivalent of 1 egg)
3 C tomato sauce
2 C shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350
-Boil pasta until al dente; drain
-Mix half of the ricotta and egg substitute in a small bowl. Add remaining ricotta to warm pasta and mix. Then add egg/ricotta mixture to pasta and combine well.
-Add about 1/2-1 C sauce on bottom of 9x13 baking dish and spread to cover bottom. Mix 2 C sauce with pasta mixture and pour pasta in baking dish; pour rest of sauce on top of pasta. Top with mozzarella cheese.
-Bake until cheese is melted, slightly brown and bubbly.

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