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Johnny Marzetti Recipe for 200 people
Amy
Amichalkiewicz5829@wideopenwest.com
10/24/05 		I need a Johnny Marzetti recipe for 200 people.

Thank you.

ellen

10/25/05 		Amy, you don't indicate how you want to cook this. You need 50 quarts of casserole, which is 4 Nesco roasters or 20 regular 9x13 pans for this amount of people.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Johnny Marzetti is a casserole created in the 1920s by the owner of the Marzetti Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. Who was Johnny Marzetti? According to the "American Century Cookbook" by Jean Anderson, Johnny Marzetti was the brother of the owner of the Marzetti Restaurant.

"Casseroles steamrolled into the kitchen in the 1940s and have remained popular staples to this day. The Johnny Marzetti casserole was popular in the mid '50s and early '60s. It consists of meat, pasta and either tomato sauce, soup or juice." Veggies and cheese have since appeared as variations. The original spelling is Johnny Marzetti, the Amish renamed it as Johnny Mazuma and other spellings have come/gone as well. The original recipe was baked in the oven and had Sharp Cheddar Cheese in it, home cooks found that the Cheddar would separate and get grainy so they started using American or Velveeta. Besides in the oven, it can be made on the stove top, crockpot or microwave. I will indicate optional ingredients, which you may leave out or substitute.

To make the dish, make double the recipe of my Basic Budget Entree "Baked Spaghetti" in the Big Pots section, with these changes:

Use 20 pounds total broad egg noodles instead of sphagetti.
Use a total of 40 pounds ground or diced meat, beef, beef and pork or beef and sausage, this varies by the recipes. Brown the meat and veggies before stirring in the sauces.
You may add 6-8 pounds diced celery to the onions and bell pepper.
Add 1 pound tomato paste to the sauce- Marzetti has a thicker, sweeter sauce.
You may omit the olives. Some recipes for marzetti do include the mushrooms.
Use cheddar cheese instead of Parmesan cheese for the topping.

Most current Marzetti recipes do include the mushroom soup, but mixed into the sauce instead of layered on top. If you do not use the soup, you will need to substitute an equal amount of tomato sauce.

ellen

10/25/05 		By the way, some recipes use canned creamed corn instead of the soup base in Marzetti. Also, some of the later recipes do call for stuffed salad olives.
Carol
02/09/06 		I need a recipe for chicken and rice for 300 using cream of chicken soup and celery and carrots for color. Can you help with the amounts if ingredience including liquid?
ellen
02/11/06 		A 9x13 pan serves 10 and takes 1 1/2 hours at 350. 5 9x13 pans takes 2 1/4 hours in the same oven.

50 pieces of chicken or chicken breast
5 qt boiling water
3 c onions, chopped, sauteed golden
3 cups celery sliced or diced
3 qts condensed cream of chicken or mushroom soup (or med. thick white sauce)
3 qts rice, raw (can use brown or white)
3 pounds frozen peas and carrots, OR mixed vegetables
3/4 c butter
4 T salt
2 T curry powder or poultry seasoning

Mix together all ingredients except the chicken. Place in baking pan/s and bake one hour, covered. Stuff the chicken pieces into the top of the rice and bake for another 1 1/4 hours, uncovered, adding a little water if rice becomes too dry.

JENNIFER
09/06/06 		Johnny Marzetti Recipe for 40 people
I have been the lucky one , i need this for 40 hungry football players for the dinner thursday nite, help me, please,
ellen
09/06/06 		Use the instructions above, make 1/2 of the recipe for 100 instead of doubling it.
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