Italian White Ziti

One of our favourite pasta dishes back in the Philippines is white ziti from Italian restaurant, Sbarro. Unfortunately there is no Sbarro here in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is fortunate that our friend had the recipe. From then on I’m making this pasta from time to time and when we came back to the Philippines for a vacation, we don’t want to eat in Sbarro anymore!

Ingredients
A] Red Sauce
Delmonte Garlic and Herb “Chunky” Tomato Sauce
Salt

B] Garlic Cheese Sauce
100g butter
1 glove of garlic, minced
I box cheddar cheese
1 tsp of ground pepper
2 cans of Nestle Cream
Garlic powder (optional)
Parsley (optional)

C] Pasta
450g of Penne Pasta
Salt and 5L of water

Directions:
1) Pasta
a. Boil water and add salt
b. Place pasta in boiling water. Usually it takes 12 minutes to cook the pasta (or follow the time from the package)
2) Red Sauce
a. Heat the red sauce
b. Add salt if the sauce is too sour
c. Simmer until hot
d. Combine the red sauce with the cooked pasta
3) Garlic Cheese Sauce
a. Melt butter in sauce pan
b. Add garlic
c. When garlic is almost transparent, add nestle creams. Cook for 3 minutes
d. Add 2/3 portion of the grated cheese. Stir to melt the cheese.
e. Sprinkle ground pepper
f. Sprinkle salt (optional)
4) Mix
a. Place the mixed pasta with red sauce in a flat baking cookware.
b. Pour garlic cheese on the top of the pasta
c. Sprinkle garlic powder and ground pepper at the top (optional)
d. Sprinkle parsley (optional)
e. Bake it in microwave oven for 5minutes

That’s it! Serve with garlic bread.