Cheesy Ziti Florentine. In a large saucepan, cook sausage, onions, green pepper, and garlic over medium heat until sausage is browned; drain fat. Add pasta sauce and cook until mixture is hot, stirring occasionally. Add pasta to the sauce mixture and mix well.
You can have Cheesy Ziti Florentine using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Cheesy Ziti Florentine
- You need of ground turkey.
- It’s of ziti (could use wheat or hidden veggie ziti).
- It’s of frozen spinach, cooked and drained.
- Prepare of ricotta cheese (light).
- You need of mozzarella cheese.
- You need of tomato sauce.
- Prepare of basil pesto.
- You need of butter.
- You need of minced garlic.
- You need of medium onion.
- You need of parmesan cheese.
- Prepare of seasonings to taste.
- Prepare of optional specialty cheese to layer in the middle.
This one pot baked ziti is every bit as delicious as the classic recipe, but much easier to make. Ground Italian sausage is browned with shallot or onion, Italian seasoning, and garlic then canned diced tomatoes, packaged gluten free gnocchi, and half & half are added. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add whole wheat egg noodles and cook according to package instructions.
Cheesy Ziti Florentine step by step
Boil ziti in extra large pot, (do step 2 while boiling) drain return to pot and add tomato sauce, set aside.
Mix ricotta, pesto and cooked drained spinach in a bowl.
Melt butter in pan and cook onion and garlic to translucent, about 5 minutes and transfer to bowl.
In same pan brown turkey and season I used Italian and pepper, drain if necessary.
to the big pot with pasta and sauce add the turkey, garlic and onion mix, mozzarella and stir well (if there isn't enough sauce adding ketchup is fine, you can also add a little brown sugar if you're sensitive to tomato acidity). Then stir in ricotta mix. Now you should just have one gigantic pot of deliciousness.
From here you have options, bake it all… put into 3-4 disposable foil pans (2.25lb size) and freeze for multiple easy, delicious, mess free dinners another night or both this makes a lot… LOT about 8lbs.
Put in suitable sized pan(s) to bake or freeze. You can layer another cheese in the middle (I use mild chipolte or mozzarella slices), you can add more cheese to top, sprinkle with Parmesan or whatever you like.
If freezing close, label and date, put in freezer.
You can also just microwave!!!! I hate the ziti noodles on top after baking because they're dry and hard, they end up in my "reject pile". If you're like me, this ziti is perfectly fine to microwave (I never bake it) everything in it is cooked, and honestly it's quicker, just do it on 30-50% power with a paper plate on top.
If baking, bake 350-400, about an hour, again, everything in it is cooked you're simply just heating and melting. From thawed the same, just heat, oven, toaster oven or microwave!! Which also would make this a good dorm food.
Even after 3 huge boxes (about 7lbs) for the freezer I had more than enough for two serving!.
The chicken florentine sauce is simple. I like to add some garlic and once that's sauteed for a minute or two, the pan is deglazed with white wine. Simmer the white wine down and add the spinach. The spinach takes only a few minutes to wilt and then all you have to do is add cream cheese and cream. Cook pasta according to package directions.
