Baked ziti is a popular baked Italian casserole dish made with ziti macaroni and sauce. In many recipes, the ziti are first cooked separately while a tomato and cheese sauce is prepared, which may include meat, sausage, mushrooms, peppers, onions, and more. The cooked and drained ziti are then combined with the cooked sauce, which may be layered with additional varieties of cheeses, baked in the oven, and served hot. A similar al forno dish with a different type of pasta is baked mostaccioli which, in Italian means (loosely) "of the chicken". ReferencesGiada De Laurentiis, Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes, Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2005.Marguerite DiMino Buonopane, The North End Italian Cookbook, Globe Pequot Press, 2004.John Mariani, The Italian-American Cookbook: A Feast of Food from a Great American Cooking Tradition, Harvard Common Press, 2000. External linksBaked ziti with roasted vegetables recipe at CDKitchen.comFour-cheese baked ziti recipe at AllRecipes.comBaked ziti with turkey meatballs recipe at Epicurious.comBaked ziti with sausage recipe at About.comBasic baked ziti recipe at EverydayCook.comVery simple baked ziti recipe at Kraftfoods.comBaked Ziti at ifood.tvBaked Ziti at ItalianChef.comThe Vesti's guide to Baked ziti at Vest-ziti.com