Recipe: Delicious Baked Spaghetti

Baked Spaghetti. A comforting baked spaghetti casserole with plenty of melted cheese is the perfect dish for potlucks, family gatherings, or a week-night dinner. Drain spaghetti; add to egg mixture and toss to coat. Top with half of the cottage cheese, meat sauce and mozzarella cheese.

Baked Spaghetti is a favorite casserole around here! A quick zesty meat sauce is combined with tomatoes and spaghetti and topped with cheese. This spaghetti casserole is baked in the oven until hot and bubbly. You can cook Baked Spaghetti using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Baked Spaghetti

1. Prepare 1 (16 oz) of package of spaghetti.
2. It's 1 pound of ground beef.
3. It's 1 pound of ground Italian sausage.
4. Prepare 1 (16 oz) of jar spaghetti sauce (I use Traditional Rangu).
5. Prepare 1/2 stick of butter, cut into small chunks.
6. Prepare 1 cup of whole milk cottage cheese.
7. Prepare 1 (8 oz) of package cream cheese, softened.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of sour cream.
9. You need 1 can of tomato sauce (I like Hunts).
10. It's 2 tbs of olive oil.
11. It's 1/2 of onion diced.
12. It's 3 cloves of garlic diced.
13. It's 1/2 tsp of fresh parsley.
14. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Italian season.
15. You need 1 (8 oz) of package shredded mozzarella cheese.
16. Prepare 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese freshly grated.
17. You need 1 (8 oz) of shredded cheddar cheese.

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Baked Spaghetti step by step

1. Preheat oven 350. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to boil & cook spaghetti 6 minutes..
2. Place the chunks of butter in the grained spaghetti and mix until coated set aside..
3. In a large skillet, on medium high heat, sauté the onions & garlic for a few minutes, then add both meats, salt, pepper to your like and cook until browned. Drain the meat..
4. Add in pasta sauce, tomato sauce, parsley and Italian season. Mix well until fully incorporated, on very low heat..
5. In a medium size bowl combine the cream cheese, cottage cheese, and sour cream until well blended..
6. Add your creamy mixture to the 1/2 of spaghetti, toss well until coated..
7. Add 1/2 of the pasta sauce and 1/2 of the cheese's. Then repeat spaghetti, creamy mixture and sauce..
8. Add remaining cheese's and place in oven..
9. Cook 25 minutes and enjoy with a garden salad and garlic toast!!.

This easy baked spaghetti is a great middle ground between spaghetti dishes and a Traditional Baked Ziti. Baked Spaghetti is so much more than just tomato sauce over noodles, this easy recipe is a great meal for weekdays, since you will have leftovers for later dinners. You make baked spaghetti almost the same way you would make lasagna. It's a layered, baked casserole with a tomato-based meat sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, and Parmesan cheeses, and pasta. The main differences are that you use thin spaghetti noodles instead of wide lasagna pasta, and you toss in a couple of beaten eggs with the cooked noodles.