Baked Ziti with Ricotta and Mozzarella
By Joe
Source: Serious Eats — J. Kenji López-Alt, The Food Lab's No-Boil Baked Ziti.
A the food lab's no-boil baked ziti recipe for 8 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.
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Method
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Heat the oven. Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 200°C. Put ziti in a big bowl plus cover using hot salted water by 3 or 10 cm. Leave to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes, mixing after the first 5 minutes to prevent sticking. Tip off the liquid. Pour 3 cups of the red sauce into a big pot; tip in ricotta, half of the Parmigiano, eggs, cream, plus half of the parsley plus basil, plus mix well. Taste and add salt if it needs it with salt and pepper. Tip in the soaked ziti along using half of the mozzarella cheese cubes plus mix till everything is uniformly mixed. Move to an ungreased 9- by 33 cm baking dish and top with the leftover 1 cup red sauce and mozzarella. Gently grease aluminum foil using cooking spray. Cover the baking dish firmly using the sprayed aluminum foil plus cook for 45 minutes. Take out foil plus cook till the cheese beginsto brown, around 15 minutes longer. Remove from oven and scatter with leftover Parmigiano, next leave till it is cold for 10 minutes. Scatter with leftover parsley and basil and serve.
Storage
Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.
EU nutrition claims
- Source of protein: 4.9 g protein per 100 kcal, about 19% of energy (needs ≥ 12%)
- Low sugars: 3.5 g sugars per 100 g (limit ≤ 5 g)
Per 100 g of the finished dish, worked out from the nutrition per serving and the lowest likely cooked weight (about 259 g a serving), so the true values are, if anything, lower. Thresholds from the Annex to EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. How we decide
Free sugars
0 g per serving
0 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 0 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
- baking tin or tray
- saucepan
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 649 kcal |
| Protein | 31.6 g |
| Carbohydrate | 57.7 g |
| of which sugars | 9 g |
| of which free sugars | 0 g |
| Fat | 33 g |
| of which saturates | 19.7 g |
| Fibre | 4.6 g |
| Salt | 3.33 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
4.9 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values
