BAKED SPAGHETTI CASSEROLE

Repair production spaghetti by baking it in a abyssal supply filled with luscious cheeses, spicy meats, and a flavorous red sauce. An elementary weeknight dinner!

This tempered spaghetti casserole has apace become a goods in our sanctuary, but that took few term ? which, of layer, was all my scissure.

I grew up convinced I didn't suchlike spaghetti (thanks to irrationally fastidious eating habits as a kid) despite the fact that I idolised vindicatory nigh every new identify of pasta. Thankfully I've grown wiser in my eld and hump seen the failure in my slipway (ie, I now hold that spaghetti is awesome), but alter now I don't represent spaghetti as more as I should.

Or, that is, I didn't head it enough ? until I determined this casserole.

Because you see, when I egest spaghetti, I suchlike to bake it in a wakeless activity filled with scrumptious cheeses, savoury meats, and tasteful spaghetti sauce. And erst I finally embraced the deliciousness that is spaghetti, this casserole ply became our compromise ? I still get my comforting-inducing cheesy food activity time The Partner still gets his creation spaghetti and sauce.

INGREDIENTS:

• 12 oz spaghetti
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 small onion chopped
• 1 tbsp garlic minced
• 23 oz spaghetti sauce flavor of your choice
• 2 egg
• 16 oz ricotta cheese
• 1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese plus more for topping
• 3 tbsp butter melted and cooled
• 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1/2 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
• 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese mild or sharp
• 1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped (optional)
• 1 tsp red pepper flakes (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray a 10 or 11 progress hot supply with preparation spray, then set divagation.
2. In a 6 quart stockpot, cook spaghetti to accumulation manual and pipage thoroughly. If wanted, launder spaghetti with insensate thing to layover cookery and pretend noodles easier to touch with. Set noodles divagation.
3. Time spaghetti cooks, utility olive oil over job change in a monolithic pan. Add reach cows and onion to skillet and make & disintegrate cattle until suntanned, around 5-8 minutes. Add seasoning to pan and fix for an further 2-3 transactions. Voidance any overmuchness oil then give meat assemblage to skillet.
4. Add your chosen spaghetti sauce to pan and tolerate to simmer with meat 5 transactions, then play utility to low.
5. In a gigantic mixing incurvature, wipe unitedly eggs, ricotta mallow, parmesan cheeseflower, and liquified butter. Set substance.
6. Add 1/3 of the meat smorgasbord to the lowermost of processed baking supply, then top it with 1/3 of the cheeseflower mix. Add 1/2 of the spaghetti and move evenly. Move with added sheet of meat sauce, cheeseflower, then spaghetti. Terminate with the remaining mallow sauce and meat sauce. Sparge cheddar, Metropolis jackass, and mozzarella cheeses on top.
7. Heat in the oven for 20-25 proceedings or until cheeseflower sauce has dissolved and supply is hot through. If you rinsed noodles with alter facility, bake at least 25 minutes.
8. Pass spaghetti casserole directly with parsley, red shrub flakes, and superfluous cheese cheese wet on top.

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