Baked Cream Cheese Spaghetti
This sounds really good with the Cream cheese, nice touch. On my to cook list for sure. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 500 grams ground beef, OR minced pork, OR ground chicken
- 350 grams spaghetti
- 3 1/2 cups spaghetti sauce, OR make from a shortcut
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed and chopped
- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
- 250 grams Cream cheese, this is 1 standard block, room temperature
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 C, lightly grease a 9x13 baking dish with butter.
- In a pan, brown ground meat until cooked through, drain fat and stir in spaghetti sauce, set aside.
- Cook spaghetti according to instructions, drain and place in bowl. Add Cream cheese, Italian seasoning, and minced garlic. Stir until cream cheese is melted and the spaghetti is thoroughly coated.
- Spread a small amount of meat sauce in the bottom of the dish. Put spaghetti on top of sauce and top with remaining meat sauce. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top. Bake for 30 minutes until bubbly and golden. Let rest 5 minutes before serving. Nice sides to serve with this would be a green salad and garlic bread.
Notes
Ground beef would be about 75 Baht for 500 grams, pork and chicken even less. The sauce is about 55 Baht/can (need 2 cans) OR make yourself from tomato paste for 17 Baht/can (2 cans) and some spices. Cream cheese would run about 120 Baht per 250 gram block. This comes out to about $1.50 per person for 6 people, and about $1.12 per person for 8 people. Overall, not a bad cost for a good meal.
Shortcut: Spaghetti/Tomato Sauce.
Adapted from an internet recipe.
A definite must-try for me…sounds totally delightful 🙂