Baked Cream Cheese Spaghetti
A baked spaghetti casserole that’s amazingly cheesy and creamy. It’s comfort food at its best, and EASIEST!
I know. It’s the day after Labor Day, we’re just about to start football season, and I post this instead of some sort of post-Labor-Day-juice-cleanse-quinoa-health-kick type recipe.
Sorry guys, but you’ll need your stretchy pants for this.
It’s pure comfort food at its best – so no. It is not diet-friendly. It is not skinny. It is not light. It’s just the best kind of spaghetti.
It’s a spaghetti casserole with layers of pasta noodles, cream cheese and sour cream, and a meaty-marinara sauce, baked to cheesy perfection.
It’s enough to feed a crowd or feed a party of two all week long. You win either way.
Baked Cream Cheese Spaghetti
Ingredients
- 1 pound spaghetti
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 small onion, diced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, optional
- ½ cup whipped cream cheese
- ½ cup sour cream
- ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- ½ cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly oil a 9×13 baking dish or coat with nonstick spray.
- In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta according to package instructions; drain well.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add ground beef and onion and cook until beef has browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the beef as it cooks; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Drain excess fat.
- Stir in crushed tomatoes, basil, oregano, parsley and red pepper flakes; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- In a small bowl, whisk together cream cheese and sour cream.
- Add pasta to the prepared baking dish and layer with cream cheese and beef mixture; sprinkle with cheeses.
- Place into oven and bake until bubbly and heated through, about 15-20 minutes.
- Serve immediately, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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Can u use diced tomatoes? I went to the store and grabbed diced instead of crushed.
We used 2 cans of diced tomatoes and our immersion blender to approximate the same amount of crushed tomatoes because that was what we had. It was good, I don’t think it would have been better with crushed tomatoes.
This looks delicious. Quick question…can you taste the cream cheese/sour cream mixture once it’s cooked? My husband doesn’t like either one of those, but I have made recipes with them before, separately. They’re mixed in, so he can’t taste it and I’m curious to know if you can tell or not. Thank you.
Best this is so good
I made it
Thanks
Delicious!! It has become a regular meal at my house! The only change I make is I add a little bit of tomato sauce to it, otherwise it can get a little dry.
Awesome dish So tasty and satisfying ❤️
O MY, O MY, this is so GoooooD!! I just lost over 100 lbs but, I think I can handle this once in a while . I will be sharing this with others, thank you for sharing
This was delicious! We used jarred spaghetti sauce, and beyond meat. There was plenty of cheese and the flavors combined well.
This was really good! I was looking for something “different” to make with a lb of ground beef – and this was it! I added a can of mushrooms to the beef/tomato/onion mixture, and I think it turned out really well!! I didn’t have the cheeses separately, but I had a bag of the “Mexican Style” shredded cheese and it fit the bill! I think I used a bit more than a half cup of the cream cheese & sour cream, but I wanted it to cover the entire dish. All in all, this is a very tasty, filling dish and you can swap out different ingredients according to what you have in your pantry! No crushed tomatoes?? Use a can of Rotel! This recipe is definitely going into my meal rotation!!!
Just made this for dinner. It was such an easy way to change things up and omg it was so creamy and delicious! Will be making this again thx:)
Made this for dinner exactly as the recipe read it was damn delicious!!!! Thanks.
I used spaghetti squash in this recipe and it was delicious! I used half of a roasted 5 Love your food and photos! Making this dish this week.
Made this for dinner exactly as the recipe read it was damn delicious!!!!
If I made this meatless would I need change anything else?
Made this for dinner exactly as the recipe read it was damn delicious!!!!
I also added some fresh garlic to hamburger while browning it with the onion and added garlic powder with the tomatoes. Next time I might increase the red pepper flakes as my family likes some kick.
Home isolating myself. Decided to make this dish tonight as comfort food. I will have to divide up the remainder in small portions and freeze them because this is SO GOOD! Wonderful recipe
Very good! I used chive and onion cream cheese in my recipe. Damn delicious
Very good! I used chive and onion cream cheese in my recipe. Damn delicious
I just finished making the baked spaghetti and it was delicious! And as always I am in hopes that it will be the next day! Thanks for sharing!
Great recipe, but I switched it up just a bit because I absolutely LOVE Rao’s marinara and Barilla cut spaghetti.
good base a friend gave me some baked spaghetti and it was delicious they had mini pepperoni, baby bellas, added ranch dressing to the cream cheese and sour cream it was so good