Healthier Baked Ziti
Ingredients
- 1 pound ziti pasta
- 1 bunch fresh spinach, or more to taste
- ¾ cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 1 pound Italian turkey sausage
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 (26 ounce) jars spaghetti sauce
- 1 head broccoli, cut into florets
- 6 ounces smoked fresh mozzarella cheese, diced
- ½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook ziti in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, 8 minutes. Drain and transfer pasta to a bowl and toss with spinach and sour cream.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir sausage, onion, carrots, and garlic until onion is translucent and sausage is no longer pink, about 7 minutes. Add spaghetti sauce and broccoli to sausage mixture and simmer until sauce mixture is heated through, about 15 minutes.
- Layer 1/2 of the ziti mixture into a 9x13-inch baking dish. Spread 1/2 of the fresh mozzarella cheese, 1/2 of the sauce mixture, the remaining ziti mixture, and fresh mozzarella cheese, respectively, into the baking dish. Sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese over the dish. Cover dish with aluminum foil.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cheeses have melted, about 20 minutes. Remove the aluminum foil and cook until top is lightly browned, about 10 minutes more.
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