Baked Ziti (From Food Network) | Community Recipes | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 1 pound ziti pasta
• kosher salt (coarse cooking salt)
• 3½ cups tomato-based pasta sauce
• 18 ounces mozzarella (half cut into 1/2 inch cubes and half sliced)
• ¾ cup grated Parmesan cheese
• ½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
• 1 pinch of red pepper flakes
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 18 ounces Italian sausages (sweet and or spicey, with skin removed and crumbled)
• ¼ medium diced onion
• 3 cloves chopped garlic
• 3½ cups roughly chopped tinned tomatoes (plum tomatoes)
• 1 sprig fresh thyme
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 freshly ground pepper
• 1 sprig fresh basil