Ham Tetrazzini is rich, creamy, and cheesy with lots of cubed ham and a few mushrooms and peas. This is an easy, filling family meal that is great for using up leftover Thanksgiving or Easter ham. It’s practically a one pan meal. You just need a pan plus a pot to cook the pasta in.
What Is Tetrazzini Made Of?
Tetrazzini is typically made with pasta, meat (usually chicken or turkey), cheese, and a creamy sauce. It often includes mushrooms and/or peas.
Tetrazzini is one of my very favorite things to cook for dinner. What’s not to like about pasta, meat, and cheese? If you have leftover turkey, try this Turkey Tetrazzini. It’s made from scratch, without canned soup, and it is so delicious.
Great Way To Use Leftovers
I love recipes like this Ham Tetrazzini recipe that take a little leftover meat and stretch it into a filling, economical family meal. Just add a salad and maybe some bread and you have a meal that will satisfy even the hungriest of teenagers.
I adore mushrooms so I always add them to tetrazzini, but they could be left out. You could sub broccoli for the peas if you like.
How To Make
(More detailed instructions in recipe card below.)
- Cook the pasta.
- Melt butter and cook onion and mushrooms.
- Add condensed soup, milk, black pepper, and white pepper. Stir.
- Add ham, peas, cheddar cheese, and Parmesan cheese. Stir until cheese is melted.
- Add pasta and mix in. Serve.
Ham Tetrazzini Recipe Tips
If you want to make this dish spicy, add 1/2 teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes.
Instead of all ham, you could use a combination of ham and turkey for this recipe.
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Ham Tetrazzini
Equipment
Ingredients
- 8 ounces spaghetti
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 medium onion, diced
- 6 ounces mushrooms, sliced
- 1 (10.75-ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup OR cream of mushroom soup
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 1/2 cups diced ham
- 1 cup peas (cooked)
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Cook spaghetti according to package directions in salted water.
- Melt butter in a large skillet. Add onion and mushrooms and cook until onion is soft and mushrooms are browned.
- Add soup, milk, and both peppers to the skillet and mix well.
- Add ham, peas, cheddar cheese, and Parmesan cheese and stir and cook over medium heat until cheese is melted. Season to taste with salt.
- Add drained pasta to the pan and mix well.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Very easy to make and very fast. My family loved it!
This is SO GOOD! It was a spur of the moment, because I had leftover ham but no cheddar cheese so I substituted mozzarella. I also didn’t have fresh mushrooms so I used canned, but this is a keeper!
This is delish! Our family loved it!
Easy & YUMMY!
Very tasty and easy to make. I substituted spinach for the peas, and rotini instead of spaghetti.
Made this substitute broccoli for peas AWSOME
thanks great leftover ham recipe
And easy
This was pretty good. I added a little Dijon mustard and a splash of white wine 👍😁
This is delish! I just made it. It’s steamy hot and comforting.i added a little garlic and wine but this is going into my regular rotation or as my husband says…. this is a keeper!
Made this last night and followed recipe exactly. Very easy to make, a great way to use leftover Easter ham, and quite tasty. I do think it could use something else to complete it, but I’m not sure what. Possibly garlic, or maybe just basil. Lots of ways to experiment here.
Comfort food for sure. This was so easy to put together and not having to bake it made really fast. A great fast and easy dinner.
Great stuff. We used frozen veggie mix instead of peas and added fresh yellow pepper, zucchini, squash and Slap Ya Mama Cajun seasoning.