Easy, Simple and Delicious Baked Spaghetti

Hey y’all, welcome back.

In today’s video, I will show you how I make my easy, simple and delicious baked spaghetti. A fresh side salad with copycat Olive Garden salad dressing also makes a great accompaniment.

AKA, million dollars spaghetti.

Why You’ll Love This

The pasta sauce that I’m using for this recipe was so, so, so, so, so, so good, so good.

And if you have a really good pasta sauce, you don’t have to do a lot to it to spruce it up.

Not only that, but using that mild Italian sausage also brought a lot of flavor and that fresh garlic and the onions. For more delicious dishes with ground beef, try our easy one-pan ground beef and rice with cheese.

This is a really simple, easy recipe but it’s going to be so, so delicious once it all comes together, okay?

Ingredients

• For the meat sauce:
  • a quarter of a white onion
  • a quarter of a bell pepper
  • four garlic cloves
  • one pound of ground beef
  • one pound of mild Italian sausage
  • salt, to taste
  • pepper, to taste
  • 36 ounces of pasta sauce
  • sugar, as needed
• For the spaghetti:
  • salt
  • a 16 ounce pack of spaghetti
• For the cheese sauce:
  • eight ounces of sour cream
  • five ounces of cottage cheese
  • four ounces of room temperature cream cheese
  • chopped green onions (one to two)
  • salt, to taste
  • pepper, to taste
• For assembly and optional garnish:
  • grated Parmesan cheese
  • 16 ounces of grated mozzarella cheese
  • dried parsley
  • green onions
  • fresh parsley

Instructions

1. Start by dicing a quarter of a white onion, a quarter of a bell pepper and four garlic cloves.
2. Cook one pound of ground beef on high heat.
3. Chop this up really good.
4. Keep breaking this down to get it nice and crumbly.
5. Strain this fat.
6. Reduce the heat down to medium.
7. Add one pound of mild Italian sausage.
8. Cook it until it’s mostly done.
9. Add the chopped onions and bell peppers.
10. Let this continue to cook until those onions are translucent.
11. Add the minced garlic.
12. Let this continue to cook for an additional minute.
13. Season this to taste.
14. Use salt and pepper for this.
15. Use about 36 ounces of this pasta sauce.
16. Taste your sauce and add sugar as needed to balance out the acidity.
17. Let this simmer on low for about 30 to 45 minutes.
18. Make sure that you stir it occasionally.
19. Add a good amount of salt to a pot of boiling water.
20. Cook a 16 ounce pack of spaghetti out dente, similar to making simple homemade spaghetti marinara.
21. Add together eight ounces of sour cream, five ounces of cottage cheese and four ounces of room temperature cream cheese.
22. Add chopped green onions.
23. Add just salt and pepper as our seasonings.
24. Add this to taste.
25. Preheat your oven to 375.
26. Add some of the meat sauce to a nine by 13-inch casserole dish to spread it evenly over the bottom of the dish.
27. Sprinkle some grated Parmesan cheese onto the meat sauce.
28. Add all of the spaghetti in here.
29. Spread it out evenly.
30. Add all of the cheese sauce.
31. Gently spread it across the spaghetti as evenly as possible.
32. Add all of the remaining meat sauce on top of the cheese sauce.
33. Spread it out gently to gently cover that cheese sauce.
34. Cover this with 16 ounces of grated mozzarella cheese. This generous layer of cheese ensures a beautiful golden crust, much like the topping on our easy homemade baked ziti with cheesy meat sauce.
35. Cover this real good.
36. Add dried parsley.
37. Bake this for about 30 to 45 minutes.
38. Take it out once your cheese is melted and nice and golden brown.
39. (Optional) Cut up these green onions.
40. (Optional) Add this on top of the baked spaghetti.
41. (Optional) Add this during the last 15 minutes of baking.
42. (Optional) Turn this up to broil, like at the last, like three minutes.

Cooking Tips

If you have a really good pasta sauce, you don’t have to do a lot to it to spruce it up.

If you don’t have this particular brand accessible to you and don’t worry about it, just use a really, really good high quality garlic and herb pasta sauce, okay, then you’ll be good, okay?

Make sure that you taste your water.

It should taste salted.

If it doesn’t, then you want to add a little more salt, okay?

When you do yours, you can go a little bit heavier if you prefer, okay?

If you prefer not to do this and never good option will be to add some fresh parsley, you know, yes, you could do that too. Serve this baked spaghetti with a side of easy homemade garlic bread with parmesan for a complete meal.

When you make yours, if you want to let it rest for about 10, 15 minutes is solely up to you, but that’s for me and my house, we eat our food hot.

So yeah, I hope you guys will try this recipe.

Thanks for watching, bye.