BAKED SPAGHETTI – The Southern Girl Cooks

Baked Spaghetti is a household favourite! Scrumptious meat sauce, pasta and tacky goodness is a superb mixture!

In the event you love this scrumptious dish you need to check out Stuffed Green Peppers. They’re one in every of our hottest recipes and the meat combination they’re full of is scrumptious.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS DELICIOUS DISH!

This dish mixture of pasta, meat sauce and cheese then baked collectively permits the flavors to actually meld collectively and create an exquisite dish. This spaghetti is simple to make and it reheats rather well. You may also be versatile with the meat sauce and add what you like.

This dish could be very handy as a result of it may be made upfront. You’ll be able to assemble the dish and bake it when prepared. It’s good for church gatherings, potlucks and even the vacations.

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

SWAPS

If you’re in search of the next protein decrease fats meal, you may swap it out with floor turkey or floor hen. You may also add any greens you want and use completely different pasta, however that is the way in which we get pleasure from this recipe.

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

This dish isn’t difficult to make; you can also make the pasta when you make the meat sauce.

PREPARATIONS

I like to chop up all my veggies and arrange my spices earlier than I get began.

COOKING STEPS

Step 1
Brown floor beef, inexperienced pepper, and onion in a big skillet on high of the range, drain. Add the oregano, black pepper, salt, minced garlic and Italian Spaghetti sauce to hamburger and stir to combine.

Step 2
Prepare dinner the spaghetti in response to bundle instructions, drain. Spray a 9 x 13 baking dish with cooking spray. Add the recent spaghetti and toss with the two tablespoons of butter and 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese.

Step 3
Unfold spaghetti in backside of dish and canopy with complete container of cottage cheese or ricotta cheese. Unfold the hamburger combination over the cottage cheese. High with the opposite 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese and the two cups of mozzarella cheese.

Step 4
Bake in preheated 400 diploma oven coated for half-hour. Take away protecting and prepare dinner for 15 extra minutes.

Step 5
Let it relaxation a bit after which lower and revel in!

⭐TIP

We cowl the baked spaghetti for the primary a part of cooking so the cheese doesn’t get overly brown. Then take away for the final half so it would soften nicely and arrange just a little.

RECIPE VARIATIONS

Cajun Baked Spaghetti
Mexican Baked Spaghetti
BBQ Baked Spaghetti

SERVE THIS WITH

These Garlic Herb Crescent rolls are just a few elements and tremendous straightforward to make! Add this straightforward Cucumber Tomato Salad for an important meal.

❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

STORING AND REHEATING

Cowl with foil or in an air-tight container and retailer within the fridge. You’ll be able to freeze this dish. Let cooked baked spaghetti cool to room temperature, then divide into freezer containers and freeze. When thawing, let thaw in fridge over evening.

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SERVING SIZE

This recipe makes about 10 servings relying on the dimensions you chop every portion. We like to make this for Sunday evening dinner after which get pleasure from it for a couple of days.

Baked Spaghetti

The Southern Girl Cooks

This baked spaghetti is the proper consolation meals.

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time 45 minutes minutes

Whole Time 1 hour hr 5 minutes minutes

Course Important Course

Delicacies Italian

• 1.5- 2 kilos floor beef
• 1 inexperienced pepper chopped
• 1 onion chopped
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano or Italian seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 24 ounce container Italian Spaghetti Sauce or pasta sauce of your alternative
• 1 8 ounces of spaghetti
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese divided
• 1 24 ounce container cottage cheese or ricotta cheese
• 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

• Brown floor beef, inexperienced pepper, and onion in a big skillet on high of the range, drain. Add the oregano, black pepper, salt, minced garlic and Italian Spaghetti sauce to hamburger and stir to combine.

• Prepare dinner the spaghetti in response to bundle instructions, drain. Spray a 9 x 13 baking dish with cooking spray. Add the recent spaghetti and toss with the two tablespoons of butter and 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese. Unfold spaghetti in backside of dish and canopy with complete container of cottage cheese or ricotta cheese.

• Unfold the hamburger combination over the cottage cheese. High with the opposite 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese and the two cups of mozzarella cheese.

• Bake in preheated 400 diploma oven coated for half-hour. Take away protecting and prepare dinner for 15 extra minutes.

This makes about 10 to 12 servings and retains nice within the fridge for a number of days. It’s nice reheated within the range or microwave. You could possibly additionally freeze a part of it or lower the recipe in half.

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