This tasty Million Dollar Spaghetti Casserole is a hearty dish loaded with flavor! Layers of pasta, a cheese mixture, and meat in every bite!
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I don’t know about you, but every time I open up Pinterest, I almost always see a recipe on my newsfeed for Million Dollar Spaghetti Casserole. After scrolling past it for about the 500th time, I decided to check it out and see what it called for. Since my family loves spaghetti, I love a good casserole, and I had seen it several times, I decided it was time to try it out.
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I changed it this dish up a bit since I didn’t have a few ingredients on hand, however, the end result was FABULOUS! My parents had come over for dinner as well, so we had 4 adults and 3 children eating this up happily. The best part about it, all of us barely ate half this casserole. Meaning, LEFTOVERS and NO COOKING the next night! Double woo hoo!!! This also freezes perfectly, so you can freeze the leftovers for a later date if you don’t want to eat them two days in a row!
The cottage cheese layer really took this dish to a new level and the casserole was packed with flavor in every bite.
Simple to make, fed plenty, and quite inexpensive to prepare….I definitely call this a winner.
Ingredients Needed:
Spaghetti noodles
Spaghetti sauce
Ground turkey (or beef)
Garlic powder
Cream cheese
Sour cream
Cottage cheese
Parmesan cheese
Cheddar cheese, shredded
If you try this, make sure you comment below and let me know what you think!!
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Million Dollar Spaghetti Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 lb spaghetti noodles
- 32 oz spaghetti sauce
- 1 lb beef *or turkey
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese
- 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese *shredded
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9 x 13 baking pan.
- Boil noodles according to directions. Drain water and toss with some olive oil to prevent sticking. Set aside.
- Cook the turkey/beef over medium heat in a skillet until no longer pink.
- Drain fat and season with garlic powder.
- Add in the spaghetti sauce and stir to incorporate the meat evenly. Simmer on low.
- In a medium bowl, use a mixer to combine the cream cheese, sour cream, and cottage cheese.
- To assemble, add half the pasta to the bottom of the baking pan.
- Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top of pasta.
- Layer the cream cheese mixture next.
- Top with remaining pasta, and end with the meat sauce.
- Bake in oven for about 35 minutes.
- Remove pan and sprinkle cheddar cheese on top.
- Place pan back into over for an additional 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and serve!!
Nutrition
Recipe updated 9/28/21
Recipe adapted from: Joyful Momma’s Kitchen
Cindy Biesecker
Hi, Kristin – This sounds heavenly and I can’t wait to try it. I’m tempted to also put some of the spaghetti sauce over the top of the first layer of pasta (between steps 7 & 8 above), to distribute the tomato flavor throughout and make sure the bottom layer of pasta doesn’t dry out. Your thoughts?
Kristin
Thats a wonderful idea and I bet that would be scrumptious! Be sure to let me know what you think if you try it!! It is one of my favorites!!!
Monica
Can you replace ricotta cheese instead of cottage cheese?
Kristin
Sure!! That would work great!!