Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sicilian spaghetti bake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sicilian Spaghetti Bake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Sicilian Spaghetti Bake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sicilian spaghetti bake using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sicilian Spaghetti Bake:
- Prepare 1/2 box Barilla spaghetti
- Make ready 1 lb ground Italian sausage
- Get 1 can (14 1/2 ounce) diced tomatoes
- Make ready 1 1/2 can (6 ounce) tomato paste
- Prepare 1 tbsp the following…sugar, basil, oregano, thyme, marjoram, rosemary
- Take 2 tbsp minced garlic
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp cracked black pepper
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp cracked sea salt
- Take 3 cup Cottage Cheese
- Prepare 1 cup Ricotta Cheese
- Take 2 eggs
- Get 5 cup freshly grated mozzarella
- Prepare 1 tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)
- Prepare 1 tbsp fresh parsley
- Take 2 1/2 lbs salt
Instructions to make Sicilian Spaghetti Bake:
- In a pot add diced tomatoes, tomato paste, all spices above to a boil. Reduce to low simmer stirring with wooden spoon occasionally for at least one hour. (metal spoon will ruin the acidity of tomatoes).
- Brown ground Italian sausage and drain. Pat dry sausage w paper towels. Add to tomato gravy. (our family calls sauce gravy!)
- Boil spaghetti to "AL DENTE" (Italian for almost done) 6-7 minutes. Then drain.
- In a bowl whisk Eggs, Ricotta, and Cottage Cheese.
- Pre heat oven to 350°F.
- In a large baking pie dish lightly oil bottom and sides. I use EVOO, any cooking spray will do.
- Add spaghetti to bottom of pie dish. Pat down evenly.
- Spoon eggs, Ricotta, and Cottage Cheese mixture evenly on pasta.
- Spoon Grandma's 'gravy' over mixture evenly.
- Spread mozzarella evenly over top.
- Bake on center rack for 25 minutes. Garnish with fresh parsley.
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