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Ziti (Italian:) or zite (Italian:) is a shape of extruded pasta originating from the Italian regions of Campania and Sicily. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is shaped into long, wide tubes, about 25 cm (9.8 inches) long, that generally need to be broken by hand into smaller pieces before cooking.
Standard pasta machines will roll out sheets of flat pasta which are then cut into ribbons to make flat, ribbon-style pasta like fettuccine, tagliatelle, or pappardelle. Bucatini, on the other hand, has to be extruded rather than rolled. The pasta dough is fed into a machine that forces it through a perforated disk, very similar to a meat grinder.
Yields: 8 servings. Prep Time: 20 mins. Total Time: 2 hours 10 mins. Ingredients. 1/4 c. extra-virgin olive oil. 1 lb. sweet Italian ground sausage. 1. small yellow onion, finely chopped (about 1 c.)
It looks like "penne" is the most common term, with about 6 times as many Google hits as ziti (and much more than mostaccioli). The penne article also gets about 50% more hits per day than ziti, according to the article statistics utility .-- ragesoss ( talk ) 18:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC) [ reply ]
Cook the beef and onion in a 4-quart saucepan over medium-high heat until the beef is well browned, stirring often to break up the meat. Pour off any fat.
Stir the sauce, ziti and 2 cups mozzarella cheese in the sauce pot. Spoon the beef mixture into 2 (12 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 2-inch) disposable foil pans. Top with the remaining mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. Bake at 350°F. for 30 minutes or until the beef mixture is hot and the cheese is melted.
Heat the olive oil in a large, deep, heavy skillet with a fitted lid, then toss in the garlic and sauté, uncovered, until golden—about 2 minutes.
The dish under its current name first appears in gastronomic literature in the 1960s. The earliest known mention of pasta alla puttanesca is in Raffaele La Capria's Ferito a morte (Mortal Wound), a 1961 Italian novel which mentions "spaghetti alla puttanesca come li fanno a Siracusa" (lit. ' spaghetti alla puttanesca as they make it in Syracuse ...