High Protein Baked Ziti

• servings: 6 servings
• total time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 Box of protein pasta (ziti or penne what ever you can find)

1lb of ground beef

1 cup of low fat cottage cheese

1 cup of low fat mozzarella cheese

1/5 cup Parmesan cheese

1 jar of pasta sauce of choice (I used Classico Fire roasted tomato and garlic its lower cal then most pasta sauces I have found)

1 whole chopped zucchini

1/2 chopped yellow onion

Spices- garlic powder, onion powder, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper

Directions

Cook your pasta according to the instructions on the back of the box, while that cooks also brown your ground beef adding garlic powder, onion powder, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper

Once both noodles and beef are cooked, combine all above ingredients and mix together well

Transfer all ingredients into a pyrex dish, top with mozzarella and parmesan cheese.

Bake on 375 for 35 mins

wait 15mins for it to cool down and serve. (Optional; serve with parsley, red pepper flakes, and more parmesan cheese) ENJOY!

P.S. I typically make DOUBLE the amount so that I can freeze one pyrex dish full and have it ready for a quick dinner on nights I am super busy or don't feel like cooking. If you are going to freeze a dish, put it in a pyrex DO NOT BAKE IT, cover with foil, and freeze. When you go to eat the frozen dish in the future you can bake it right out of the freezer 375 for 40mins and it taste like you JUST made it!

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