This easy and comforting dish is made healthier with turkey sausage, lots of great veggies, and less cheese than traditional baked ziti.
Ingredients
- ziti pasta: 1 pound
- bunch fresh spinach: 1 piece (to taste)
- reduced-fat sour cream: 0.75 cup
- Italian turkey sausage: 1 pound
- onion: 1 piece (chopped)
- carrots: 2 piece (chopped)
- garlic: 3 clove (minced)
- jars spaghetti sauce: 2 piece (26 ounce)
- head broccoli: 1 piece (cut into florets)
- ounces smoked fresh mozzarella cheese: 6 piece (diced)
- mozzarella cheese: 0.5 cup (shredded)
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
