Recipe: Perfect Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti. Try this delicious recipe from Johnsonville that's sure to delight the family! Avoid opening the slow cooker while cooking. Yes, you really can make baked ziti (well, "baked" ziti) in your slow cooker.

Tastes very good, but seriously makes a VAT of pasta! This Easy crock pot baked ziti recipe is a guaranteed crowd pleaser. The perfect slow cooker dinner recipe! You can have Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

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

The perfect slow cooker dinner recipe! Crockpot pasta is one of my very favorite ways to make an easy dinner. I have a one pan baked ziti recipe on my blog that I shared a little while ago. It's one of my family's favorites and it contains a yummy meat sauce.

Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti step by step

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!!.

This slow cooker three cheese ziti recipe is a little different. First, it's easier than the other (although both are made in just one pan, so you can't go wrong!). Short pasta like macaroni, penne, rotini, and others work best in this Slow Cooker Baked Ziti because they're less likely to clump and stick together. Long pasta cuts like spaghetti and fettucini are doable, but you may have to stir a couple more times in between. Turn your slow cooker to high when you add your pasta.