Baked Ziti With Charred Tomatoes | Oregonian Recipes
Baked ziti, a hearty combination of pasta, tomato sauce and gooey cheese, can be time-consuming. We were looking to streamline this dish, achieving the same delicious results in less time. Our first priority was the sauce. We used a hot cast-iron skillet to get a nice blistery char on grape tomatoes, bringing a deep, caramelized flavor to the sauce. We further bolstered the sauce by sauteing garlic, red pepper flakes and tomato paste with the charred tomatoes. We then mashed everything to a coarse consistency and diluted it with water so that we could cook the ziti right in the sauce. Cooking the ziti in the skillet with the sauce saved us from using an extra pot, and the starch released from the pasta during cooking helped thicken the sauce nicely. We finished the sauce by stirring in bas
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