Baked spaghetti and meat sauce topped with mozzarella cheese.
Spaghetti Pie
This is a great recipe for feeding a crowd or splitting the recipe in half and making one for the freezer for serving later. You start out with cooked spaghetti and then mix it with eggs, cottage cheese and parmesan cheese. If you don’t like cottage cheese leave it out, we happen to like it in there and adds some extra protein especially if you do a meatless sauce on top. This recipe has lots of versatility to it. It also freezes well. If you like jarred spaghetti sauce by all means use it. There are a lot of good products out there that can save you time.
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- 1 1/2 lbs. ground chuck
- 1 C. onion chopped fine
- 1 stalk celery chopped
- 1 t. minced garlic
- 1 T. sugar
- 1 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes
- 3 T. tomato paste
- 1/2 t. salt
- 1 1/2 t. basil
- 1/2 t. oregano
- 8 oz. spaghetti
- 1/3 C. grated parmesan cheese
- 2 beaten eggs
- 1 C. small curd cottage cheese
- 8 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese
- Brown meat and drain. Add onion, celery and garlic, cook until tender. Add salt, sugar, oregano, basil, tomatoes and tomato paste. Cook 20 minutes.
- Cook spaghetti noodles in salted water and drain. Add cottage cheese and beaten eggs. Stir and then add parmesan cheese.
- Butter a 9 x 13 inch pan. Pour in spaghetti mixture and even it out. Top with sauce. Finish by topping with mozzarella cheese.
- Bake at 325°F. for 45 minutes. Let set for 10 minutes before cutting.
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cottage cheese??? really????
yes, really. leave it out if you don’t like it.
Hi, we love spaghetti pie in my family and my husbands aunt makes it! TFS and I will try this recipe some time and I pinned it. I saw it on wow me wed. party.
Julie at julieslifestyle.blogspot.com
We love it also. thanks Julie….
I love this recipe. This is a great time of year for such a hearty casserole. Visiting you from the Rock and Share.
This looks really good!
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Yum! What a great idea lasagne recipe without the lasagne but spaghetti instead. Thanks for sharing I just might try this. Visiting from Tuesday With a Twist.
Hi Marla, it is one of my favorite casseroles. Hope you try it.
Spaghetti Pie is one of my favorite dishes and each time I find a new recipe, I make it. Thanks for sharing yet another scrumptious looking dish.
Thanks Chaya, I hope you enjoy it!
hi Mary Ellen, this recipe of spaghetti pie reminds me of one my aunt used to make for us on Sunday! instead of mozzarella she used cheddar. Thanks for bringing back delicious memories, Love this recipe, Lizy party co host at the Fluster Buster Party
You’re welcome Lizy, I have seen it made with cheddar also. Funny how recipes can take us back!
What a fun take on spaghetti! Never tried it like this, may have to give it a shot. Thanks for sharing the recipe and linking up to Share Something Sunday!
Hope you enjoy it Ashley, it’s one of our favs!
I am like Lawrence – I’m not a fan of cottage cheese cooked in food. I replace it with about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of sour cream for creaminess. I like to use mozzarella and cheddar. Some of my family does not like chunks of tomatoes so I just put them in the blender for a few seconds. I also break my spaghetti into thirds before cooking. This makes it a little easier to serve after baking. If I’m going to be out for part of the day, I put this together in the morning and put it in the frig and then when it’s supper time it’s ready to bake. I have prebaked for about 30 minutes and then finished while preparing the salad or trying to herd everyone to the table. This is a family favorite spaghetti pie recipe. Thanks Mary Ellen for many good recipes we enjoy.
Hi Stephanie! Thanks for your comments. I’ll have to try your way the next time I make it, it sounds good!