Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baked spaghetti casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baked Spaghetti Casserole is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Baked Spaghetti Casserole is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked spaghetti casserole using 18 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Spaghetti Casserole:

1. Prepare Meat Sauce:
2. Take olive oil
3. Prepare ground beef
4. Make ready yellow onion, diced
5. Get garlic, minced
6. Make ready no salt added crushed tomatoes
7. Get each brown sugar. dried basil
8. Take salt
9. Get pepper
10. Take Pasta & Cheesy Layers:
11. Take thin spaghetti pasta
12. Get large eggs
13. Prepare freshly grated parmesan cheese
14. Get salted butter, melted
15. Make ready ricotta cheese
16. Take freshly shredded mozzarella cheese
17. Get freshly shredded white cheddar
18. Take freshly shredded parmesan cheese

Steps to make Baked Spaghetti Casserole:

1. Heat the oil in a large, deep skillet over medium heat. Once it's hot, add the beef and cook, breaking it up, until it's browned throughout. Then drain any excess grease and add the onion to the skillet. Once the onion softens up, add the garlic and cook another minute or so, until fragrant. Stir in the crushed tomatoes, brown sugar, basil, salt and pepper, then lower the heat and let it simmer while you start cooking the pasta.
2. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease a 9x13" baking pan and set it aside. Cook the spaghetti until al dente in a large pot of salted water. When it's ready, drain it and return it to the pot. In a small bowl, beat the eggs, melted butter and grated parmesan cheese together. Then pour it over the drained pasta and toss to fully coat. Place the shredded mozzarella, parmesan and white cheddar in a bowl and toss together to integrate it all together.
3. Place half of the pasta into the prepared pan, then top with half of the ricotta and half of the meat sauce. Sprinkle half of the shredded cheese blend over that, then repeat the layers with the rest. Make sure to completely cover the pasta with the top layer of sauce. Cover the pan with foil and bake for 40 minutes. Then remove the foil, and bake another 15-20 minutes, until the cheese has started to brown. Let it cool for 10 or so minutes, then slice into squares and serve.

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