Baked Pasta With Spaghetti Sauce Recipe Cooking Add A Pinch

on Jan 18, 2013, Updated Jun 14, 2023 30 Comments Mercy! How is it possible to love Baked Spaghetti or Baked Ziti more and more every single time you taste it? Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve had it twice. Yes! You read that last sentence right. Twice in two weeks! It’s that good. It reminds me of my Skillet Lasagna in how quick and easy it is to prepare and how much everyone loves it.

Baked Pasta with Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

For this baked pasta recipe, you’ll need:

pasta – spaghetti, penne, rigatoni, elbow, twirl, etc. olive oil – if you omit the onion, you will not need the olive oil onion – optional oregano – use dried oregano if you plan to make ahead this recipe as a freezer meal lean ground beef – you can also use ground turkey if you prefer. garlic tomato sauce diced tomatoes shredded Monterey Jack cheese

This baked pasta with a meaty spaghetti sauce makes one of the easiest meals you can throw together in a hurry. One of the best parts of this recipe is that you can really use whatever type of pasta you have on hand and that you love. We’ve been rather obsessed with twirl noodles lately, so rather than using ziti noodles as I normally would, I used these. Of course you can use spaghetti noodles, ziti, penne, rigatoni, elbow, or any other type that will hold the sauce well. As for us, we’re using twirls. And there’s another little secret that this baked pasta recipe and I have for you, too. It is a wonderful make-ahead meal. As in, the reason we had it twice in two weeks was that I made a double recipe and rather than freezing one of them, I stuck it in the refrigerator. I meant to share the second pan with my sister, but she’d already made dinner plans for her family so we had it again. And we loved it just as much! We could have just as easily had a sandwich, a quick breakfast-type meal or any number of recipes that only take about 30 minutes or less to prepare. Heck, there are plenty of those on this website for goodness sake. But, I have to tell you. Right then and there, that pasta was even better than take out. Delivered at that.