Recipe: Perfect Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti.

You can cook Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

1. It's Half of a large onion (chopped).
2. It's 2 Lbs of ground beef.
3. Prepare of (2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce.
4. It's 32 oz of ricotta cheese.
5. You need 1 of egg (beaten).
6. You need 1 teaspoon of salt.
7. You need 1 teaspoon of pepper.
8. Prepare 2 Lbs of ziti pasta (uncooked).
9. You need 6 cups of colby monterey jack cheese.
10. Prepare of Non stick cooking spray.

Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti step by step

1. Brown ground beef and onion in large skillet; Drain fat..
2. Return ground beef to skillet and mix both jars of pasta sauce with ground beef; Remove from heat..
3. In a bowl mix ricotta cheese, egg, salt, and pepper.
4. Turn the slower cooker to high.
5. Spray slower cooker with non stick spray.
6. Spoon the sauce into the bottom of the slower cooker; Enough to evenly coat the bottom.
7. Spoon the ricotta cheese mixture on top of the sauce evenly coated.
8. Pour uncooked ziti noodles on top of ricotta cheese evenly coated.
9. Sprinkle colby cheese on top of pasta evenly coated.
10. Repeat steps 6-9 until you reach the top of slow cooker; making sure the final layer is a generous amount of colby cheese.
11. Put the top on slow cooker; cook for 4 hours or until pasta is tender. Avoid opening the slow cooker while cooking..
12. Enjoy!!.