Baked Cream Cheese Spaghetti Casserole – everyone goes crazy over this dish – they always ask for the recipe! Make ahead of time and refrigerate until ready to bake. Great for a crowd. The BEST pasta I have ever had. Seriously better than you’ll find in any restaurant.
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You probably have everything you need to make this pasta dish in your pantry right now. This can be made ahead of time and baked when you are ready. I love these kinds of dishes. The pasta was really creamy and wonderful! We both absolutely loved it. It was even better the next day at lunch. This will be going into our usual dinner rotation!
Baked Cream Cheese Spaghetti Casserole
Ingredients:
- 12- oz spaghetti
- 1 (26-oz) jar prepared spaghetti sauce
- 1- lb lean ground beef
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese, room temperature
- ½ cup parmesan cheese grated
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF degrees.
- In a skillet, brown the ground beef until cooked through; drain fat and stir in spaghetti sauce. Set aside.
- Cook spaghetti according to directions on packet. Drain and place cooked spaghetti in bowl. Add cream cheese, Italian Seasoning and minced garlic. Stir until cream cheese is melted and the spaghetti is thoroughly coated.
- Lightly grease a 9×13″ pan. Spread a small amount of meat sauce in the bottom of the dish. Put spaghetti on top of sauce and top with remaining meat sauce. Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top.
- Bake for 30 minutes, until bubbly.
Notes:
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My hubby and I host a young adult study on Tuesday nights and we feed about 25. How many servings does one recipe make? We are serving this on Tuesday !!
Thank you!!! Planning on making this for dinner and just wanted to be sure..sounds and looks GREAT!!!
Lewisrat2003 – I just used the green can parmesan cheese, but you can grate your own if you'd like
This is probably a dumb question, but when you say parmesan cheese, grated..are you referring to the bottle of parmesan or fresh parmesan and grate it yourself???
Found on pinterest today..made it tonight and YUM!! Simple, Cheap and super quick!! Thank you!!! 😉
Made this tonight – it was delicious! I think it would also work well with spaghetti squash!
I saw this on pinterest, made it, loved it, and shared it on my blog justalittlebs.com Thanks!!
Lindsay – my favorite sauce is La Famiglia Delgrosso pasta sauce. The tomato basil is great.
I also like Trader Joe's roasted garlic marinara – I don't always have that on hand though since we don't have a TJ in Alabama. I have to stock up when I go out of town.
Is the La Famiglia Delgrosso the one in the video? My daughter hates the "chuncks" in the sauce and nocticed yours didn't have any chunks
Nuckles – La Famiglia Delgrosso does not have chunks. I also like Trader Joe's roasted garlic marinara – it is the one with the green label. It doesn't have chunks and has great flavor.
I was just wondering what type of jarred spaghetti sauce you used. I typically use hunt's because that what my husband is used to but I'd really like to find a better one.
I use prego and ragu together. like one if them has garlic and sausage. The other maybe 6 cheese. I always add a bit of sugar to my sauce.
I use Bertolli, either w/olive oil & garlic or 4 cheese (might be 5 cheese ….can't remember which it is! Lol) but all flavors are great!
I like Bertolli with sausage. Lots of flavor!
This was yummy. Kind of a compromise between spaghetti and lasagna and a change from the same boring meal. Thanks 🙂
Dawn – I didn't soften the cream cheese. I just added the hot spaghetti to it and stirred it up. If your cream cheese was too hard to stir, just let it sit out and soften before making.
When you get to the part of adding the cream cheese to the spaghetti, are you supposed to pre soften the cream cheese???
I found it VERY hard to stir the cream cheese block into the spaghetti and have it melt, I ended up putting it back on the stove over low heat to try and help melt it and it still didn't help that much. Or is there part of the directions missing?? Not sure.
Thanks
Whenever I use cream cheese in this way, I cut it up into cubes and stir it in. Much easier to melt that way. I would also let it soften on the counter for a bit.
Whenever I use cream cheese in this way, I cut it up into cubes and stir it in. Much easier to melt that way. I would also let it soften on the counter for a bit.
I came across your bacon cheddar ranch pull apart bread on pinterest and after reading through your posts I just have to say… You and I would be friends 🙂
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I made this yesterday for dinner and everyone loved it!!! My husband and I both had it for lunch as leftovers and it was even better. I didn't think that was possible. THANK YOU for sharing this!
This was a HUGE Hit at my house over the weekend. Although, I made a minor change using pork and turkey in place of the beef (my daughter does not eat beef) and it was absolutely delicious. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
This sounds delicious! Does anyone know if this could this be done with Spaghetti Squash?