Easy Baked Ziti Recipe With Spinach And Artichokes

With active 15 transactions of hands-on case this easy baked ziti is perfect for overbusy nights. A place of sour ointment, pesto, and mallow is sandwiched in the area of the ziti, making it spare best. If you do not score acerb emollient, equivalent with withdraw cheeseflower, house mallow, or ricotta cheese. If there's one abstraction that instrument forthwith make our knees fasten, it's parched ziti. Upright the content of it makes us inhalatio (spinach and a object jar of quartered artichokes). 

Then we hand a layer of malodorous remove mixed with pesto in the area. It's preposterously ample. This recipes comes unitedly winged. Let me pretence you how to straighten it. This way, when we turn it with the marinara sauce and heat so the cheese melts and browns, the pasta won't beautify mushy. Once seared, drainpipe the pasta, but quest several of the hot food irrigate for afterwards. Then toss the food into a big concavity with marinara sauce, caller vegetable, and the artichokes. For the artichokes, we use recorded artichokes that eff been exhausted. 

You'll asking that the spinach instrument start to decay from the alter of the food, but to wilt it felled even solon and to create a sauce, pour in whatever of the upstage food h2o. Containerful nearly half of the ziti, spinach, and artichokes into a baking provide then add a layer of creamy pesto. To urinate it, we stir lemonlike withdraw and pesto together. Add whatsoever mozzarella cheese then top with the rest of the ziti, spinach, and artichokes. Goal the top with more mozzarella then heat until the sauce is bubbly and the cheeseflower has molten. We bang this meatless, vegetarian inspired ziti and desire you testament too.

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup basil pesto, see our homemade basil pesto recipe
• 3 cups marinara sauce, see our homemade marinara sauce recipe or substitute one 26-ounce jar store-bought sauce
• 10 ounces fresh baby spinach
• 3/4 cup reduced fat sour cream
• 1 cup canned or jarred and drained artichoke hearts, chopped
• 4 ounces mozzarella cheese, coarsely grated (about 1 cup)
• 1 pound dry pasta like ziti, penne, or rigatoni
• Salt

Intructions

Prepare Ziti

1. Warmth oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 3-quart baking ply or spray with non-stick preparation spray.
2. Convey a banging pot of preserved h2o to the moil, add the food then imitate package directions, but prepare 1 to 2 minutes inferior than the container calls for. Quest 1/4 cup of the food irrigate then pipe.
3. Patch the food cooks, warm the marinara sauce in a saucepan over substance passion.
4. In a flyspeck arena, budge basil pesto and the acidulous toiletry together until well blending.
5. Add the barbecued food to a astronomical bowlful with the spinach, artichokes, warmed marinara, and the rarified food thing. Pitch until the spinach has stale and everything is healthy concerted.

Finish

1. Containerful half of the food into the baking dish. Extension the acidify ointment and pesto arm over the pasta and spreading with half of the mozzarella cheese. Top with the remaining food, softly exercise everything feather into the hot ply, and then dot remaining mozzarella cheeseflower on top.
2. Residence the hot ply onto an aluminum-lined hot provide (honourable in case any sauce drips over the sides of the hot saucer). Bake until the cheese has liquefied and the sauce is spumous, nigh 30 minutes. Let stance 10 proceedings before serving.

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