Try My Baked Spaghetti (Million Dollar Spaghetti) | How To Make Spaghetti Bake | So Easy!!

hey y'all welcome back to the simple way in today's video I will show you how I make my easy simple and delicious baked spaghetti AKA million dollar spaghetti I'm going to start by dicing a quarter of a white onion a quarter of a bell pepper and one green onion and four garlic cloves next I'll cook one pound of ground beef on high heat I'm going to chop this up really good just like this I didn't want my meat sauce to have big chunky meat pieces in it so I'll just keep breaking this down to get it nice and crumbly I'm also going to strain this fat that you see here so now I'm going to reduce the heat down to medium and I'm going to add one pound of mild Italian sausage and I'm going to cook it until it's mostly done then I'll add the chopped onions and bell peppers okay and I'll let this continue to cook until those onions are translucent okay so now I'm going to add the minced garlic and I'm going to let this continue to cook for an additional minute I'm going to season this to taste and I'm only going to use two seasonings I'm just going to use salt and pepper for this that's it like just salt and pepper the pasta sauce that I'm using for this recipe was so so so so so so so good so good and if you have a really good pasta sauce you don't have to do a lot to it to Spruce it up not only that but um using that mild Italian sausage also brought a lot of flavor and that fresh garlic and the onions so I'm going to use about 36 ounces of this pasta sauce and you know if you don't have this particular brand accessible to you and don't worry about it just use a really really good high quality garlic and herb pasta sauce okay then you'll be good okay so you want to make sure that you taste your sauce and add sugar as needed to balance out the acidity in the tomato sauce the pasta sauce okay so now we're going to let this simmer on low for about 30 to 45 minutes make sure that you stir it occasionally so now while that simmers let's work on our spaghetti you're going to add a good amount of salt to a pot of boiling water make sure that you taste your water it should taste salted if it doesn't then you want to add a little more salt okay and this is a 16 ounce pack of spaghetti and I'll cook this Al Dente okay which means basically firm when bitten but not hard or crunchy okay and this could take anywhere from about eight to ten minutes to cook now we are going to make our cheese sauce and it's going to be really really simple yet delicious okay so we're going to add together eight ounces of sour cream five ounces of cottage cheese and four ounces of room temperature cream cheese our chopped green onions I believe that was like one to two chopped green onions we're gonna add just salt and pepper as our seasonings that's it and you want to add this to taste now trust me on this y'all I know y'all like just salt and pepper yes just salt and pepper this is a really simple easy recipe but it's going to be so so delicious once it all comes together okay so now I want you guys to go ahead and preheat your oven to 375. I'm using a 9 by 13 inch casserole dish and I'm adding some of the meat sauce to spread it evenly over the bottom of the dish just like this then I'm sprinkling some grated Parmesan cheese onto the meat sauce okay so when you do yours just do as much as you want okay so I'm going to add all of the spaghetti in here and I'm only going to do this in one layer so again I'm adding all of that spaghetti and I'm going to spread it out evenly just like so I will add all of the cheese sauce just like this and I'm going to gently spread it across the spaghetti as evenly as possible now I'm going to add all of the remaining meat sauce on top of the cheese sauce okay and I'm just gonna just spread it out gently to you know gently cover that cheese sauce and I'm gonna cover this with 16 ounces of grated mozzarella cheese okay and I'm gonna cover this real good now I'm adding parsley here I know you guys totally cannot really see it but I'm adding dried parsley when you do yours you can go a little bit heavier if you prefer okay we're going to bake this for about 30 to 45 minutes or you can you know take it out once your cheese is you know melted and nice and golden brown okay okay so this is optional I uh at the last minute just use my chitch my kitchen shears and cut up these green onions this was you know like the last my green onions just cut these up and I'm gonna add this on top of the baked spaghetti okay so I just added this during the last 15 minutes of baking you know if you prefer not to do this another good option would be to add some fresh parsley you know yeah so you could do that too this is what the baked spaghetti AKA million dollar spaghetti look like after it was done this took about I would say about 45 minutes to bake I did turn this up to broil like it the last like three minutes okay I turned this up to broil and yeah I did not let this rest obviously like as you can see it's nice it's cheesy you know it's uh oh my gosh it was so flavorful it was so so good when you make yours if you want to let it rest for about 10-15 minutes it's totally up to you but as for me and my house we eat our food hot so yeah I hope you guys will try this recipe comment below and let me know how yours turned out and I hope to catch y'all in my next video thanks for watching bye foreign

Channel: The Simple Way with Delilah

Views: 697,348

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Length: 6min 40sec (400 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 03 2023