spaghetti pie
This was floating around Facebook for a while before my mother-in-law sent it to me. She tried it and changed a few things, and then we tried it and started changing a few things.
It is really simple to put together, and the cheesy goodness brings a little something different than a traditional spaghetti dinner!
Ingredients:
- 1 lb angel hair pasta
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 medium onion
- 1/2 cup diced green bell peppers
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 tbsp ground oregano
- 1 tbsp basil
- 28 oz whole peeled tomatoes in juice
- 14.5 oz diced tomatoes in juice
- 15 oz tomato sauce
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 3/4 cup ricotta cheese
- 1 cup parmesan cheese
- Mozzarella cheese
- 2 tbsp sugar
- Red pepper flakes to sprinkle on top
Directions:
- Boil spaghetti noodles according to directions
- While they are boiling, place the cream cheese in a bowl, cube it up
- When the noodles are done, put them in the bowl with the cream cheese and toss it around to coat all the noodles
- In a pan, brown your ground beef
- Add the onions and bell pepper while browning
- When almost done browning, put in the oregano, basil, salt, pepper
- Cook meat until done
- Add tomato sauces
- Add sugar
- Adjust any seasonings according to taste
- Add ricotta to the noodle bowl
- Add parmesan to the noodle bowl
- Toss around really good
- Add some of the spaghetti sauce and toss it around
- Layer the noodle mixture on the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish
- Layer it about half way and pour half the sauce on top
- Layer the other half of noodles and top it off with sauce
- Cover and bake on 350 for about 40 minutes
- If you want to top it with mozzarella, take it out and put the cheese on top, put it back in the oven uncovered for about 10 minutes