Slow Cooker Baked Ziti
If you're looking for a simple and delicious meal that you can make with little effort, then look no further than this Slow Cooker Baked Ziti!
Servings: 8
Calories: 640kcal
Ingredients
- 48 oz. Pasta Marinara Sauce or Meat sauce your choice
- 29 oz Diced Italian Tomatoes
- 1 lb. Italian Sausage cooked and crumbled
- 1 & 1/2 cups water
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese Softened
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese freshly grated
- 1 tablespoon garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons basil chopped
- 2 teaspoons parsley chopped
- 16 oz. Ziti Pasta uncooked
- 2 cups Mozzarella Cheese freshly Grated
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add cream cheese, eggs, parmesan cheese, basil, and parsley. Cream together with an electric mixer. Mix until it has reached a smooth and creamy texture.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together pasta sauce, diced tomatoes, cooked sausage, and water.
- Grab crockpot and add 1/3 of the pasta sauce mixture to the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Add half the box of uncooked pasta on top of the sauce layer.
- Next add dollops of the cream cheese mixture.
- Repeat sauce layer, ziti pasta, and cream cheese dollops.
- Finish layers with remaining sauce covering the top.
- Add mozzarella cheese to the top and sprinkle basil and parsley over. Cook on high for 4 hours.
- Stir right before serving.Serve along side your favorite garlic bread and a big green salad.
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Nutrition
Calories: 640kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 30g | Fat: 32g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 12g | Trans Fat: 0.003g | Cholesterol: 105mg | Sodium: 1759mg | Potassium: 1077mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 1285IU | Vitamin C: 23mg | Calcium: 341mg | Iron: 4mg