Baked Spasagna by Cheddar's

"This recipe was featured and prepared on our local Fox station this morning. It is on the menu at Cheddar's restaurants here in the DFW area. It is really good! This Italian dish uses spaghetti instead of lasagna noodles in a casserole-style treat that's sure to please your family. "Tender spaghetti baked with three cheeses and our Alfredo sauce, topped with our rich marinara, served with hot garlic bread.""
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
24
Serves:
6-8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Cook spaghetti al dente according to package directions. Rinse under cold water and drain. Place in large mixing bowl.
  • In another mixing bowl, stir together sour cream, ricotta, half-and-half, mozzarella, oregano, basil, white pepper, garlic, salt, and half the Parmesan cheese.
  • Add above cheese mixture to the spaghetti. Using hands, mix gently until spaghetti is evenly coated with mixture.
  • Rub a 9x13 glass baking dish with the olive oil.
  • Gently place spaghetti mixture into prepared dish. Top with remaining Parmesan cheese.
  • Cover dish with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees in pre-heated oven for 30 minutes.
  • Remove from oven, remove foil and place dish on cooling rack for 10 minutes.
  • Cut into six-eight squares and top with meat sauce below, or your favorite meat or marinara sauce.
  • Meat Sauce.: Heat a heavy saucepan on medium heat for five minutes.
  • Add ground beef and stir to break up clumps. Cook till meat is browned well. Drain meat and set aside.
  • Add onions and garlic to saucepan and cook over medium heat for about five minutes, or until softened.
  • Return reserved meat to pan, along with spaghetti sauce, salt, oregano, basil, sugar, red wine and romano cheese. Stir well to combine.
  • Bring mixture to a simmer and cook uncovered for 30 minutes.
  • Adjust seasoning with additional salt and pepper to taste.

Questions & Replies

  1. Can you buy this a Cheddars by the pan?
     
  2. Ok so I have looked EVERYWHERE for a copycat recipe of Cheddar's mac and cheese and I can't find one anywhere! I'm dying to make this! Lol
     
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Reviews

  1. 2lbs of mozzarella? I think it should be 2 cups, shredded. I substituted low-fat milk for half and half. I also put half the spaghetti mixture in the pan, then some sauce, and then the rest of the spaghetti. A yummy recipe that has lots of possibilities.
     
  2. If I had 10 stars this one would rate it. Definitely a calorie splurge, but worth every single fat gram. Hey, we don't eat it everyday. I used my own spaghetti sauce and offered my guests a choice of Alfredo, traditional sauce or half and half, with everyone choosing the half and half. <br/>I also cut back the salt a bit,just personal preference. Served 6 and had plenty leftover. <br/>Add a healthy salad (for redemption) some garlic bread and call it supper!<br/>Thanks so much for sharing this great pasta dish!
     
  3. This recipie is AMAZING!!! My whole family loved it! I cannot wait to make it again! I gave a choice of the meat sauce or Alfredo... both were delicious but when I combined the 2 in the leftovers~ It was even better! Thanks for sharing!
     
  4. Absolutely delicious! I followed the recipe to a t. I was a little skeptical because of all the cheese,but very,very good!
     
  5. Leftovers? Don't see how that's possible!!For sauce I used 2 jars Prego chunky garden. Added 1# lean, ground burger cooked with onion, green pepper & garlic to taste. Followed the rest of recipe exactly! It's PERFECT! Even better than Cheddars! Absolutely LOVE this recipe! Can't thank you enough!!
     
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Tweaks

  1. Oh gosh this was so good and really worthy of more stars, I did increased the garlic and used seasoned salt in place of kosher, I used my recipe#136292, I prepared this in stages which took 2 days and then refrigerated it until baking, thank you for sharing this great recipe Tx!
     
  2. MMMMmmmm this is so good for my family of MEN. So filling too. A few changes...I made the meat portion as directed, but subbed parmesan cheese for the romano. Also, I don't have alcohol in my house, so used 1 beef bouillon cube in place of the red wine and kept the water amount as is. The sauce portion I used cottage cheese in place of ricotta and also dried basil as I didn't have fresh. After putting the noodle/sauce on the bottom of my 9x13, I then added the meat to the top and baked covered for 45 minutes removing the foil the last 5 and adding a sprinkling of shredded cheddar. It's important (as it is with lasagna) that you let this dish set for minumum 10 minutes as stated. Longer is better actually. Very good switch-up to the traditional lasagna. Made for PRMR.~
     

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