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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. SAUCE. | 2. Remove the sausage casings and crumble the sausage. | 3. Add 2 teaspoons of olive oil to a pan, and brown the sausage. | 4. Puree the tomatoes in a blender (not too much). | 5. Add onions and garlic to now-browned sausage. Cook for a few more minutes until transparent. | 6. Add your tomato puree to the sausage. | 7. Add thyme and basil to sauce. | 8. Add some salt and pepper to taste. | 9. Add a generous pinch of the pepper flakes. | 10. Stir this up, heat to near-boil, then let it simmer covered on low for 15 minutes. | 11. BUILDING THE DISH. | 12. Boil your ziti pasta to not quite al-dente. Don't overboil, pasta will soften while baking. | 13. Cut the mozarella, half of it into 1/2 inch cubes, the other half in as thin of slices as you can manage. | 14. Remove the herb sprigs from the sauce and discard. | 15. Add the can of tomato paste to your sauce to thicken it up and give it a lively red color and more intense flavor. | 16. Add the pasta, your sauce, the cubed mozarella and half the parmesan in a baking dish. | 17. Top with the sliced mozarella and the remainder of the parmesan. | 18. Bake for about 30 minutes until golden. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
ziti pasta	1	lb		706.0667	0.0	157.08	3.9667
mozzarella cheese	1	lb		1469.641	123.46799999999999	61.5072	81.0571
parmesan cheese	3/4	cup	grated	222.0	24.0	24.0	3.0
salt				-	-	-	-
pepper				-	-	-	-
red pepper flake			crushed	706.0667	0.0	157.08	3.9667
extra virgin olive oil	2	tablespoons		706.0667	0.0	157.08	3.9667
italian sausage	1/2	lb	sweet	784.7157	1.4742	32.3185	71.0553
hot italian sausage	1/2	lb		706.0667	0.0	157.08	3.9667
onion	1/2		diced	22.0	5.1370000000000005	0.605	0.055
garlic clove	4		minced	17.88	3.9672	0.7632	0.06
san marzano tomato	28	ounces	peeled	706.0667	0.0	157.08	3.9667
tomato paste	6	ounces		139.4795	32.1653	7.3482	0.7995
thyme	2	sprigs		-	-	-	-
basil	1	sprig		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.