Recipe of Award-winning Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

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Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

This easy Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is a perfect meal for those busy weeknights during the summer. With slow cooker pasta bakes like this, you get to enjoy a delicious, hearty meal with very little work. It might sound a little.cheesy.but it just doesn't get better than that. This Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is made completely in the crockpot — even the pasta!

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sharon's slow cooker baked ziti using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:

1. Prepare Half a large onion (chopped)
2. Take 2 Lbs ground beef
3. Get (2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce
4. Prepare 32 oz ricotta cheese
5. Get 1 egg (beaten)
6. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
7. Make ready 1 teaspoon pepper
8. Get 2 Lbs ziti pasta (uncooked)
9. Get 6 cups colby monterey jack cheese
10. Prepare Non stick cooking spray

Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is an easy crock pot pasta dinner that's perfect for weeknight meals. The pasta cooks right in the sauce! I've made countless slow cooker dinners and breakfasts and even cooked rolls and cinnamon rolls in them. Seriously, there isn't much that a slow cooker can't do!

Instructions to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:

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!!

I've made countless slow cooker dinners and breakfasts and even cooked rolls and cinnamon rolls in them. Seriously, there isn't much that a slow cooker can't do! This takes only a few minutes to assemble and is really, really good!!! The sauce penetrated the noodles just like a baked pasta should and the cheese was gooey and delicious! Best of all, it was a super cheap meal because the ingredients didn't cost very much at all!

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