Easy Baked Spaghetti Pie Recipe (The Best)
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This Easy Baked Spaghetti Pie recipe has been around forever and is a great recipe! Layers of meat, cheese, a rich tomato sauce and spaghetti noodles, create this spaghetti dinner in pie form! A fun twist on traditional spaghetti.
We invited several of my son’s friends for dinner a few weeks back, they devoured it! And believe me, when teenagers give something a thumbs up, you know it’s good! This is a meal the entire family will love!
I love dinners I can make ahead and freeze! Like my Grandpa Frank’s Spaghetti Sauce, so versatile, quick thaw, boil some pasta, toss in some frozen meatballs or sausages and you have dinner!
Why You Will Love Baked Spaghetti Pie
- Leftover Spaghetti | If you have leftover spaghetti this is an even easier recipe to make!
- Family Favorite | The whole family will love this recipe!
- Easy Weeknight Meal | You can prep this whole recipe ahead of time, then pop it in the oven for those busy weeknights.
If you love easy weeknight meals, you might enjoy these reader favorites: Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya, 30 Minute Cheesesteak Sandwiches or this Light Chicken Parmesan.
Simple Ingredients
Ingredients, directions and nutritional information in the printable recipe card at the end of the post.
- Spaghetti | use freshly made, cooked al dente, or leftover spaghetti, use regular, gluten-free spaghetti or whole grain
- Ground beef and Italian sausage | feel free to leave out if you want a vegetarian dish
- Sweet onion & Garlic | Essential to a yummy Italian recipe!
- Olive Oil, Kosher Salt, Italian Seasoning | Essentials for an Italian dish
- Crushed tomatoes & Tomato paste | we will be making a quick marinara sauce
- Eggs | Eggs help bind the pie together
- Cream Cheese or Ricotta cheese | I was out of ricotta when I baked this, so used cream cheese
- Cheese | Use shredded mozzarella, sliced mozzarella, grated parmesan cheese or your favorite Italian blend
How to Make this Easy Spaghetti Pie Recipe
Step One | Cook Spaghetti and Start Sauce
Make spaghetti according to package directions, cook only to al dente as it will finish cooking in the oven.
In a large skillet or medium saucepan, over medium heat add olive oil and saute onions until caramelized, during last few minutes add garlic and saute until fragrant.
Step Two | Make Hearty Meat Sauce
Increase heat to medium-high heat, brown ground beef and sausage. Then add tomatoes and tomato paste, along with salt and Italian seasoning.
Step Three | Assemble Spaghetti Mixture
Remove 2 cups of meat sauce, set aside, and carefully stir the drained spaghetti into remaining sauce. Beat eggs, add a little bit of meat sauce to egg mixture stirring to temper the eggs, then stir into the spaghetti mixture.
Place mixture in prepared pan. If using a springform pan, wrap it with foil and place on a rimmed baking sheet in case it leaks. Then start layering the spaghetti mixture with cheeses, adding more spaghetti and finishing with shredded cheese. Finish by spooning remaining sauce over the spaghetti pie and top with shredded cheese.
Step Four | Bake your Spaghetti Pie
Bake your pie and let it sit after baking for a few minutes for easier slicing.
Slice your spaghetti pie like you would a pie slice, in triangles
Variations & Substitutions
- Try a different noodle! Spaghetti works best, but Penne, Rigatoni and others would work well too! You may even be able to use zoodles, use uncooked!
- Omit the meat and make it vegetarian
- Try spicy Italian Sausage or ground chicken or ground turkey.
- Add some red pepper flakes if you like it spicy
- Saute green pepper or your favorite peppers with the onions
- Try using different Italian cheeses, or throw caution to the wind and use Jack, Cheddar or your favorite cheese.
- Replace the cream cheese with ricotta, or get totally crazy and use cottage cheese! Some people even use sour cream.
- Wait for it…add caramelized peppers, squash and onions! GAH!
This is how cooking is meant to be, at least that is how I would like to encourage you to cook! Make it Yours! Substitute something else that is similar. Don’t like an ingredient? Leave it out, or replace it with something you love.
P.S. You will notice, there is a section missing cheese, that’s intentional as my youngest doesn’t like gooey cheese!
Recommended Equipment for Baked Spaghetti Pie
- Large heavy bottomed saucepan or large skillet
- 9-10 in Springform Pan, 9″ Deep Dish pie dish or double the recipe and bake in a 9×13 casserole dish.This is a great meal to bring to someone, bake in a disposable foil pan.
- A good wooden spoon, love this set!
- Tin foil and a half sheet pan in case your pan leaks or overflows
- A good serving spatula! These are my favorites, large and small
Storage Tips
Leftovers | Store leftover spaghetti pie, covered or in an airtight container in the fridge up to 5 days.
Freeze | This spaghetti pie freezes great! Cool pie completely, then either wrap in single servings, or cover with plastic wrap, then with foil – freeze up to 3 months.
Reheat | To reheat ideally, thaw the frozen spaghetti pie overnight in fridge, then bake covered at 375 degrees for 30 minutes, then uncover and bake additional 10 minutes. If baking from frozen, keep covered and bake additional hour at 350 degrees, removing foil last 10 minutes.
Make Ahead & Freezer Instructions
This is a great recipe to make ahead. Bake and assemble the entire pie up until baking, cool completely, then wrap well in plastic wrap and refrigerate up to one day. When ready to bake, bring to room temperature while preheating the oven.
Freeze Unbaked Spaghetti Pie
Make sure that your pasta pie is cooled completely, then wrap well in two layers of foil, if possible place in airtight baggie; freezing up to 3 months.
Thaw overnight in fridge and bake as directed.
To bake from frozen, keep spaghetti pie covered in foil and bake for about 60 minutes, then remove foil and bake an additional 20-30 minutes until hot. To check, stick a butter knife in the middle, leave there for a few seconds, if heated through the knife will be hot.
What to serve with spaghetti pie
- A great way to serve is with this Cheesy Garlic Bread
- Crisp Green or Caesar Salad or try this Yummy Mediterranean Dip.
- Tiramisu or these amazing Crumbl Chocolate Chip Cookies!
- Swish it all down with a Blood Orange G & T or this Cranberry Spritzer.
What desserts go well with Spaghetti Pie?
A delicious dessert is what is needed to finish off this easy Italian meal.
Italian Tiramisu
Light, fluffy, creamy and not too sweet. This dessert is made ahead, taking one more thing off your plate.
Lemon Ricotta Cake
A simple single-layer ricotta cheesecake, perfect to compliment this Spaghetti pie.
>>> Browse all of my dessert recipes here.
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Easy Baked Spaghetti Pie Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 16 oz Spaghetti, try whole grain or gluten free
- 16 oz Ground beef, or other ground meat
- 14 oz Italian sausage, bulk, or skins removed from links
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 medium onion, yellow or sweet, chopped
- 3-5 cloves Garlic, minced
- 28 oz Crushed tomatoes, canned
- 2-3 Tablespoons Tomato paste
- 2 Tablespoons Italian Seasoning, this is my favorite, cause it has paprika in it! + more to sprinkle on top
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 3 large eggs, beaten
- 4 oz Cream Cheese, softened (try equal amounts of Ricotta!)
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella, or use your favorite cheese
- 3-6 oz Mozzarella , Sliced, this is option
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F and spray or grease a 9-10 spring form pan or 9" deep dish pie plate or if doubling a 9×13 baking dish. Wrap your springform pan in foil to avoid leaking, place on half sheet baking pan.
- Bring a large pot of salted water over high heat to boil for pasta. In a separate large saucepan, over medium heat, melt butter and swirl in olive oil. Saute onions for about 7 minutes until translucent and browned slightly, add garlic and stir for 1 minute. Add ground beef and sausage, breaking up and cook until browned.
- Add crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, Italian seasoning and salt, stir well and simmer on low.
- Once water for pasta is boiling, add pasta and cook according to package, al dente. Drain and reserve pasta.
- Remove 2 cups of meat sauce, set aside. Add cooked pasta to remaining meat sauce and stir well to coat pasta. Beat eggs, add a little bit of meat sauce to egg mixture stirring to temper the eggs, then stir into the spaghetti mixture.
- Place spaghetti into prepared pan, pressing down to fit into pan (I used a sheet of waxed paper). Slice the cream cheese into thin slices and lay on top of pasta, or place ricotta by tablespoons dotting evenly over pasta. Use wax paper or spatula to spread out cheese.
- If using, layer slices of mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle with a little extra Italian Seasoning. Pour remaining meat sauce evenly over top of pie. Sprinkle shredded cheese over top and bake for 25 minutes until edges are crispy. Cool for 5 minutes before cutting. Delicious leftover and reheated.
✱ Kathleen’s Tips
Make Ahead & Freezer Instructions
Bake and assemble the entire pie up until baking, cool completely, then wrap well in plastic wrap and refrigerate up to one day. When ready to bake, bring to room temperature while preheating the oven.Freeze Unbaked Spaghetti Pie
Make sure that your pasta pie is cooled completely, then wrap well in two layers of foil, if possible place in airtight baggie; freezing up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in fridge and bake as directed. To bake from frozen, keep spaghetti pie covered in foil and bake for about 60 minutes, then remove foil and bake an additional 20-30 minutes until hot. To check, stick a butter knife in the middle, leave there for a few seconds, if heated through the knife will be hot. If you are making multiples, use disposable foil baking pans, deep dish work best. Or line a pan with foil, prep the recipe, freeze and remove from pan, wrapping in plastic wrap or baggie, thereby not using one of your pans in the freezer. Leftovers | Store leftover spaghetti pie, covered or in an airtight container in the fridge up to 5 days. Freeze | This spaghetti pie freezes great! Cool pie completely, then either wrap in single servings, or cover with plastic wrap, then with foil – freeze up to 3 months. Reheat | To reheat ideally, thaw the frozen spaghetti pie overnight in fridge, then bake covered at 375 degrees for 30 minutes, then uncover and bake additional 10 minutes. If baking from frozen, keep covered and bake additional hour at 350 degrees, removing foil last 10 minutes.Variations & Substitutions
- Try a different noodle! Spaghetti works best, but Penne, Rigatoni and others would work well too! You may even be able to use zoodles, use uncooked!
- Omit the meat and make it vegetarian
- Try spicy Italian Sausage or ground turkey
- Add some red pepper flakes if you like it spicy
- Try using different Italian cheeses, or throw caution to the wind and use Jack, Cheddar or your favorite cheese.
- Replace the cream cheese with ricotta, or use cottage cheese!
Nutrition
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The Fresh Cooky is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is only an estimate. We recommend running the ingredients through an online nutritional calculator if you need to verify any information.
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This was a total hit with the family! Everybody loved it and the italian sausage adds so much flavor!
My family LOVED this recipe!! I am making it again today for my niece who just came home from the hospital with a new baby girl!
I loved this spaghetti pie. I used to make it with my mom but it was never this tall! I used the leftovers to make a spaghetti sandwich!
YYum, I love it, a spaghetti sandwich!
This is a super tasty version of Spaghetti Pie!
I send my son to his home with homemade meals and this not only was easy to put together, but he loved it. Devoured, so no freezing needed, but great tip!
I’ve made this recipe over a dozen times. My family loves it!
This sounds so good and I’m planning to make it this week. I know that it is going to be a hit at my house and I’m looking forward to trying it.
And I hope you love it Paula, thank you!