Growing up in a country where Rice is one of the staple foods, we only made spaghetti on special occasions, not only that, pasta and meat are expensive where we're from (The Philippines). So when we moved here 11 years ago, we made spaghetti to our hearts content, until we got tired to the point when it was served at home or in events, we don't put it in our plates or simply just IGNORE....then I came across this recipe from Pinterest "Million Dollar Spaghetti" and life will never be the same again. As I was scrolling through the page, I didn't care that it had tons of raves when I saw the words "cream cheese and sour cream" on the ingredients list, I was sold. I actually made it twice in one week..it's that good! no, i wasn't trying to keep the recipe to myself, the reason why I didn't post it the first time I made it was ( this is going to make me sound soooo dumb but oh well) I bought egg noodles instead of Spaghetti just like the name of the recipe...how could I have missed that? It's one of my life's biggest mysteries. When my 8 year old cousin took the first bite she asked my mom what recipe was called and guess what she said "This really tastes like a million dollars!" she loved it! and if you're a mom your greatest critics are children. I'd like to say sorry in advance for the lack of pictures and don't worry this recipe is a million times easy ;)
Million Dollar Spaghetti (adapted from ashleykaitlin.blogspot.com)
Ingredients:
1 lb. ground beef
1 can spaghetti sauce
8 oz. of cream cheese
1/3 cup pf sour cream or plain yogurt
1/2 lb. of cottage cheese or ricotta
Whole stick of butter
1 lb. of spaghetti
Bag of shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1 beef bouillon cube or salt and pepper to season
1 tbsp. of sugar
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350f, cook spaghetti in boiling water and drain.
- Mix the cream cheese, sour cream and cottage cheese make sure it's well incorporated.
- Brown the meat and drain the excess oils. Put back in the burner and add the bouillon cube once its incorporated in the meat add the spaghetti sauce and the tablespoon of sugar. Bring to a simmer then set aside.
- Take a few slices of butter and put them at the bottom of your casserole dish or glass pan, layer with the spaghetti noodles and the creamy cheese mixture. repeat the butter, spaghetti and creamy cheese mixture, top with the Spaghetti sauce meat mixture.
- Put in the oven for 20-25 mins. remove from oven top with the sharp cheddar cheese and return for another 15 mins. Enjoy with caution as its hot.
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