Recipes

Spaghetti String Pie

This is such an easy Spaghetti String Pie dinner recipe to make. It is so easy to make, that we’ve made it twice in one week before. A combination of ground beef, cottage cheese, onion, pasta, cheese, and spaghetti sauce make a hearty meal that the whole family can enjoy. The secret ingredient are the eggs that bind the spaghetti, meat sauce, and cheese mixture together to make it easy to dish like a “pie.” Waiting at least 10 minutes for the dish to cool will help the dish settle hard-and-fast.

Method:

After preheating the oven to 350 degrees, cook the one pound of ground beef and a chopped onion in a large skillet over medium-high heat until the meat is browned and fully cooked. Drain the fat.

Add a 16 ounce jar of spaghetti sauce to the meat mixture once it is cooked.

While the ground beef is cooking, boil and cook 8 ounces of spaghetti. Drain the spaghetti. In a bowl, add the cooked spaghetti noodles, 1/3 cup of parmesan cheese, 2 eggs, and 2 -3 teaspoons of melted butter and combine them.

Add the mixture to a dish or pan.

Spread one cup of cottage cheese over the top of the spaghetti mixture.

Then, cover the cottage cheese with the ground beef and spaghetti sauce.

Sprinkle the top of the Spaghetti String Pie with mozzarella cheese (or any cheese that you have).

Bake the Spaghetti String Pie for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees until everything is heated through and the cheese melts.

Helpful Tips:

Don’t skip the eggs! This is what helps to bind everything together when the dish is cooled. I have also found that adding an additional egg (3 eggs total), help the spaghetti to hold together even better.
Let the Spaghetti String Pie sit and cool for at least 10 minutes. As you can see in the picture above, I didn’t wait the 10 minutes (or possibly even more time) for the dish to cool enough. It was just as delicious, but it definately didn’t have the “pie” texture when I cut into it to serve.
This recipe is even better as leftovers. Having time to fully cool, and sitting in the fridge overnight, allows the the Spaghetti String Pie to really be cut and served as if you were cutting through a “pie.”
You can really use any kind of shredded cheese that you like on top.