Creamy Baked Spaghetti
Happy Spaghetti Day everyone! I’m so excited to be sharing this dish with you today. It has so many of my favorite things – ground beef, pasta, cream cheese, french fried onions. YUM!! Grab a fork and let’s eat!
Serve it with a side of meatballs. If you want to turn this into a bigger spread, a batch of Italian Meatballs is an easy addition. They can go right on top of the baked spaghetti or sit alongside it, and since both use that same classic marinara and Italian flavor base, they pair together without any extra work.
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cook spaghetti according to package directions until al dente; drain and set aside.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat, and cook ground beef until browned. Drain excess grease. Add spaghetti sauce to skillet and heat.
- Heat a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add milk, cream cheese and onion powder, heat until cream cheese melts and mixture is smooth. Stir occassionally.
- In a 9″ x 13″ baking dish, spread a thin layer of spaghetti sauce on the bottom of the dish. Then layer with spaghetti, then cream cheese mixture – spreading evenly over the top, more spaghetti sauce, and then parmesan cheese.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Top with French’s fried onions – as much as you like, and bake 5 minutes more. ”This is the secret ingredient – don’t let them burn.”
Notes
Make this ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze without the French’s fried onions.
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It's too early to be this hungry but your recipe and picture is making my mouth water!
Oh! This is on my menu tonight, I haven't put cream cheese in before so I will be trying that! I found you through a blog hop and I am a new follower. 🙂
Thanks mom 🙂
I liked the cream cheese a lot. Mike thought it was too thick so I amended the recipe to have a bit more milk to thin things out a bit. I hope you like it as much as we did.
Just made this for dinner! Yumm! super good. I liked it better than regular spaghetti. Thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Thank you for linking to Must Try Monday this week. I am featuring you today!
This sounds really good!
What a great idea, adding the cream cheese into the mix. I'm going to have to try that with my boys! Thank you. would love to have you join my party: http://iamaddictedtorecipes.blogspot.com/p/link-party.html
Have a great weekend!
I LOVE spaghetti!! This looks incredible. Thanks for sharing at oopsey daisy!
This sounds delicious!