Spaghetti Casserole

This Baked Spaghetti Casserole is a wonderful mixture of pasta, cheese, and an easy meat sauce. A couple of eggs get mixed in and they help the casserole hold it's shape. Always a family favorite.

Prep Time20

Cook Time50

Total Time1 10

Course: Dinner, Main Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: baked spaghetti, Casserole, pasta

Servings:

Equipment

9x13-inch baking dish

Ingredients

1 (16-ounce) box spaghetti
1 pound ground beef
1 medium onion, diced
2 garlic cloves minced
½ teaspoon seasoned salt
1 ½ (24-ounce) jars spaghetti sauce
2 large eggs
4 tablespoons butter melted
½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
½ teaspoon black pepper
2 cups small curd cottage cheese
4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
Cook spaghetti to al dente in a large pot of salted water. Drain.
In a large nonstick skillet, cook ground beef and onion, crumbling the ground beef as it cooks.
When there is no more pink in the ground beef, add garlic and cook 1 minute.
If there is a lot of grease, drain it off.
Add seasoned salt and spaghetti sauce and stir. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, melted butter and Parmesan cheese. Add the pasta, Italian seasoning and black pepper and mix well.
Place half the spaghetti mixture in the prepared baking dish. Top with half of the sauce, then half the cottage cheese and half the mozzarella.
Repeat layers.
Cover with foil. (Spray the underside of the foil with cooking spray so that the cheese will not stick to it.)
Bake for 30 minutes.
Remove foil and bake 20 more minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes and then cut into squares.

Notes

Add at least a few teaspoons of salt to the pasta water. Otherwise your pasta will taste bland and boring.

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