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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Mmmmmm…..yum. This looks totally amazing. I’m just starring at the screen looking at how delicious they look.
thanks for providing the directions for making it is soo delicious to eat and easy to make the ingredients are easily available keep it up.
The dish looks mouth-watering! Nice recipe to follow!
Can you use any kind of pasta or just spaghetti ?
Yes, different types of pastas can be used.
Oh my gosh this looks so good! I am over here drooling over this dish right now. I am all over this. I can’t even stop starring.
Hi Chungai
Luv all your recipes and my friends too, will make this tonight for supper
without the cream cheese as Husband hates cream cheese will double on the other cheeses on top and mix it will with the sauce and spaghetti
keep up the good recipes and your dog is so cute
Do you layer the ingredients? Meaning spaghetti on the bottom, then the cream cheese and sour cream them hamburger?
Yes, you can layer the ingredients:
Add pasta to the prepared baking dish and layer with cream cheese and beef mixture; sprinkle with cheeses.
Tonight will be the 2nd time I’ve made this dish, 1st time I made it exactly as above and it was good! However tonight I’m switching the beef for Italian sausage and adding some oomph to the sauce. I love all of your recipes, especially because they’re all tweakable to suit my households (picky) palates and my gourmand aspirations!
Simple and delicious. Will sure try this. Thanks for sharing.
Hi! I made this last night. I didn’t have exact measurements of the sour cream and cream cheese, but it was so easy, it didn’t even matter. I used jarred spaghetti sauce because I was out of tomatoes. It was SO SO good and quick. You really cannot mess this up.Thanks!
Instead of CC and sour cream… Try ricotta and goat cheese.
I modified this recipe to lower the calories and fat. I used ground turkey,low fat cheeses,low sodium sauces.
It came tasting Great. I also used whole wheat spaghetti.
My favorite cuisine is Italian, but I’ve never cooked pasta in this recipe. It looks very tasty. I will definitely try it!
Hi CHUNGAH!
It is my best food .Thanks a lot for shearing.
Tried this one. Really good. Next time we will probably use a little less cheese.
Hi CHUNGAH!
This is very interesting food for me. If I regularly eat this food, can be any problem in my body?
Unfortunately, this is not something that I can answer. As always, please use your best judgment.
It look easy to prepare and kids should love them. Well, I guess its time to gain some weight! Thanks.
1 pound of spaghetti noodles??
Yes.
SPAGHETTI…………. it’s good but too much lipit & Cholesterol. should one or twice per week 😀
I have never really been a fan of any sort of cheese spaghetti. But, I am excited to try this recipe, it looks delicious. Thanks Chungah for the recipe.