Baked Spaghetti Recipe

With Christmas Day tomorrow (can you believe it??) I thought I would share a few recipes to try when you are done with your "Christmas dinner" (we had ours a few days ago at Kevin's moms house) and ready for something different. This Baked Spaghetti recipe takes some time to make but Jace (he is 12) said this is wayyy better than regular Spaghetti. 

This recipe is from AllRecipes and can be found HERE. We replaced the onion with onion powder, we replaced meatless spaghetti sauce with organic spaghetti sauce, and we did not use cottage cheese. Believe it or not, without cottage cheese, it still tasted amazing!

Ingredients:
1 package spaghetti noodles
1 pound ground beef
1 tbsp onion powder
2 jars spaghetti sauce
1/2 tsp season salt
2 eggs
1/3 cup parmesan cheese
5 tbsp butter (we use unsalted) melted
5 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded

Directions:
Bring a pot of water to a boil. Cook spaghetti noodles in boiling water, stirring occasionally, about 12 minutes and drain. While the pasta is cooking, heat a large skillet over medium heat and cook the beef and onion powder, about 5-7 minutes until the meat is brown. Drain. Stir in spaghetti sauce and season salt.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray cooking spray in a baking dish. Whisk eggs, parmesan and melted butter in a large bowl. 

Add spaghetti noodles to the egg mixture and toss to coat. Pour the spaghetti sauce mixture in the bowl and mix. 

Place 1/2 of the mixture in the baking dish. Top with mozzarella cheese. Add the remainder mixture and the more cheese. 

Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 40 minutes. 

Remove the foil and add the remaining 1 cup mozzarella and continue to bake, 20-25 minutes. Serve with toast.