Baked Spaghetti With Cream Cheese | Potluck Recipes | Cooking Up Love

Not only is our baked spaghetti with cream cheese easy and ready in under 45 minutes, it's also the best cheesy baked spaghetti casserole you'll ever have! Layers of homemade meat sauce, pasta and a delicious creamy mixture of cream cheese, sour cream and mozzarella make this dish a favorite weekday dinner served with crusty garlic bread and fresh salad.

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Baked Spaghetti with Sour Cream and Cream Cheese Ingredients
Meat Sauce
1 lb ground beef
Lawry’s seasoning salt
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried ground oregano
½ tsp kosher salt
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
1 can fire roasted diced tomatoes
4 oz tomato paste
6 - 8 oz tomato sauce (or tomato puree)

1 lb spaghetti pasta (I'm using thin spaghetti pasta)
4 oz cream cheese, softened
4 oz sour cream
16 oz mozzarella, shredded
Olive oil spray (or 1 tsp olive oil)

How To Make Baked Spaghetti With Cream Cheese
Preheat the oven to 350º F. Lightly spray a 9x9 baking dish with olive oil, you can also coat the pan with olive oil, butter or a non-stick spray. Prepare the pasta according to directions.

To make the meat sauce, add the ground beef to a heated cast iron skillet, sprinkling with seasoning salt. Cook the ground beef over medium heat, stirring to crumble the meat. Cook until browned, about 5 minutes and drain any excess fat.

Stir in diced tomatoes, tomato paste and tomato sauce. Mix in spices and heat gently.

If necessary, use the microwave to soften cream cheese (20 sec on HIGH). Combine sour cream and softened cream cheese.

To assemble the casserole, begin by spooning a small amount of meat sauce on bottom of dish. Add a layer of pasta, then cream cheese mixture, a handful of shredded mozzarella, then meat sauce. Repeat layers, finishing the top with shredded cheese.

Place into the oven and bake until heated through and cheese is melted on top, about 15 - 20 minutes.

This baked spaghetti recipe can also be made in advance and kept in the refrigerator, then just pop it into a pre-heated 350º oven for 30 minutes to warm and serve.

Another popular name for this casserole is Million Dollar Spaghetti - it tastes like a million bucks but doesn’t have to break the bank! Doubling the recipe will feed 12 - 16 people and will probably cost less than $20 in supplies if you have the spices on hand.

Thank you so much for watching! I’ll see you in the next video!

xoxo Annie ♥

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[amberjones]

Cream cheese and spaghetti. Cant go wrong with that. Cant wait to make this. Thanks for the recipe and video !!!!

[f.acostaa]

I'm here to tell you all, this dish here is so delicious. I made this for my kid's soccer potluck, everyone enjoyed it. The only thing was I didn't make enough. So tasty!!

[vinniemartinez]

Yes definitely make more videos to watch please

[jasonmenke]

Looks soo good! Thanks, I'm going to try it!

[stephaniescraftsandcreatio]

Thanks so much for your help you made it real simple and easy thank you again getting ready to cook it now

[dopegirldopegirlyeahthatsm]

I’m going to the grocery store to get items and try this recipe out today that looks super yummy 🤤

[kamikazitsunami]

How many people did you say that recipe was going to feed? 16 people? No. 😂 That would feed me four times. 😂

[stephanieholmes]

going to try this recipe i have that same dish you used the bigger one is too big for me and mom

[ruthworman]

I have made this . But my family doesn't really care for it. 2 different layers cream cheese on the bottom.

[PV]

One comment, cook the tomato paste before adding all the other stuff. My brother makes this for get together and it completely disappears!!

[Paul-ngjx]

You don’t have to use spaghetti noodles