Baked ziti with meatballs straight from the Sopranos - voila! Food. With plenty of delicious little meatballs and lots of Italian cheeses, this pasta pastry, straight from Tony Soprano's kitchen, is just what you've been dreaming of.
Ziti refers to short, hollow pasta like tubes. The best and suitable form for the recipe is rigatoni. Today, every brand that imports pasta to Israel displays such a shape on the shelves. Passata is a lighter and thinner tomato puree that is excellent for tomato sauces.