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.
Ham Tetrazzini Recipe Tips
If you want to make this dish spicy, add 1/2 teapsoon of crushed red pepper flakes.
Instead of all ham, you could use a combination of ham and turky for this recipe.
More Leftover Ham Recipes
- Easy Ham and Cheese Quiche
- Deviled Ham
- Ham Lasagna
- Ham Pot Pie
- Ham and Asparagus Casserole
- Broccoli and Ham Jiffy Cornbread
- Ham and Cheese Crescent Breakfast Casserole
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.
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Yum. I cook lunch for work each day. This was delish and well received. Thank you.
Added green beans instead of peas, 4oz cream cheese, 1 cup pasta water, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, 1 can artichoke hearts instead of mushrooms, Placed in casserole dish and added 1/2 cup schreded cheese. Baked 30 min.
Just made this recipe literally 5 minutes ago. So easy to prepare and I already had the ingredients here in the house except spaghetti. I only had linguini so I used half a box of that. Came out delicious. Thank you for such an easy meal.
Delicious, fast and easy!
Very tasty recipe (!) and I love that the ham sauce is cooked and ready by the time the pasta is done. To make prep even easier, I bought diced ham (Publix had a BOGO, which is why I looked for this recipe in the first place), diced onion, canned mushrooms, and frozen peas (threw them in with the pasta to cook). Only change I’d recommend – saute the ham (just for a minute) with the onion to get it browned a little (ups the ham flavor.) Served it with with a carrot/raisin/pineapple salad and had dinner on the table in 15 minutes. This goes into the permanent dinner rotation!
It turned out great! Thanks for sharing!
Very good added my own twist
Loved this recipe and it was a good amount.
Not enough to feed an Army as some recipes are.
Easy to make and tasty, perfect weekday meal. In the rotation now. It’s the go to creamy pasta dish in our house. Thanks for sharing!
Found a hunk of ham in my freezer! So went searching for a recipe, came spin this one had all the ingredients! Fantastic! What a change up from boring, scalloped potatoes and ham or something and ham soup! Lolo will be making this more often for sure!
This is a delicious recipe. I will definitely make this again.
Great ham tetrazzini recipe. Best regards.
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Wa tasty. I had to do without mushrooms because my husband won’t eat them. Quite utensil intensive. Three pots and several measuring cups.
This was PERFECT! We ate it all as is! Delicious!!
I omitted cheddar & subbed 4 oz of cream cheese,to keep it creamy yet not stringy& oily.it was yummy 😋
Delicious!😋 I love when I find a recipe that I have all the ingredients! And it is tasty!
I tried this recipe and was impressed. An excellent way to incorporate leftover ham. Quite yummy. Thank you for sharing.
I made this for supper it was amazing
Oh yum! I want to eat this right now! I will order via DoorDash now! haha.
Turned out fantastic – a big hit at my house!