This hearty Crock Pot Baked Ziti recipe is flavorful and filling. It is a treat for all your loved ones that sit at your table!
Note: We use referral links for the products we love.
How to Make Baked Ziti in a Crock Pot
Aunt Lou here.
If you are looking to feed a crowd and have everyone rave about the delicious casserole you made, then this Crock Pot Baked Ziti is for you! It is packed full of flavor and is sure to fill you and your guests up.
If you don’t need quite so many servings, we have you covered. Let me explain how you can easily change the number of servings on our recipe card. Changing the number of servings will change the ingredient amounts to fit how many servings you need. Easy peasy! If you are on a laptop, you will hover your cursor over the blue number of servings. If you are on a smartphone, tap the blue servings number. Once you do this, a slide bar will appear. Drag the slide bar up or down until the blue number has changed to the desired number of servings. Click (or tap on a smartphone) off to the side of the slide bar after you have it on the number you want. The recipe card will now show you how much you need of each ingredient. With changing the recipe, you may need to adjust the size of slow cooker and should watch it closely the first time you make it to adjust the cooking time as needed.
What You Will Need for Crock Pot Baked Ziti
Ingredients Needed
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 lb ground Italian sausage
- 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- 16 oz box ziti
- 29 oz diced tomatoes, undrained (2 – 14.5 oz cans)
- 15 oz can tomato sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 15 oz tub ricotta cheese
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella, divided
- 1 cup parmesan cheese, shredded
Equipment Needed
- Large skillet and strainer
- Mix ‘n chop
- Sharp knife
- Cutting board
- Measuring cups
- Can opener
- Garlic press
- Measuring spoons
- Extra large pot and strainer
- Wooden spoon
- 6 quart crock pot
Time Needed
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cooking Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes to 3 hours on low or 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes on high
General Notes
- Looking for more recipes? Our Recipe Finder can help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in our Amazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
LOVE THIS SITE?
If Recipes That Crock has helped you and you would like to give us a small tip of gratitude, here is our tip jar.
Your financial support is never expected but always appreciated! Folks like you help us keep doing what we do!
SAVE THIS RECIPE TO YOUR FREE RECIPE BOX
On Recipes That Crock we have a way for you to save recipes to your own free recipe box. This way you won’t ever lose a recipe. With your free RTC account, you know that your favorite recipes and all the recipes you want to try are always just a click away.
Click Here to: Learn how to use your Recipe Box on this site.
You can register (or login if you already a user) here: Register/Login Here.
NOTE: If you don’t see the recipe box save buttons, you need to sign in.
Crock Pot Baked Ziti
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 lb ground Italian sausage
- 1/2 cup onion chopped
- 16 oz ziti
- 29 oz can diced tomatoes undrained (2 – 14.5 oz cans)
- 15 oz can tomato sauce
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1.5 teaspoons Italian Seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 15 oz tub ricotta cheese
- 2 cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese cheese
- 1 cup Shredded Parmesan Cheese
Instructions
- In a large skillet, over medium-high heat, cook your ground beef, Italian sausage and chopped onion and drain.
- While your meat mixture is cooking, in an extra large pot, cook your ziti to just al dente, drain and return to the extra large pot.
- Add your tomatoes, tomato sauce, garlic, seasonings, ricotta cheese and 1 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese to your pot of cooked and drained ziti and stir until well combined.
- Stir your beef mixture into your pasta mixture until well combined.
- Spoon your mixture into a lightly greased 6 quart slow cooker and spread it out evenly.
- Top everything with your remaining shredded mozzarella and your shredded parmesan.
- Cover and cook on low for 2.5-3 hours or on high for 1 hour 15 minutes to 1.5 hours, until your mozzarella has melted.
Notes
- Looking for more recipes? Our Recipe Finder can help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in our Amazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Nutrition
If you enjoyed this recipe, you might also enjoy these dishes
- Creamy Italian Crock Pot Chicken for Two - September 25, 2023
- Budget Meal Plan: Week 48 - September 22, 2023
- Balsamic Crock Pot Chicken for Two - September 20, 2023
