The Best Leftover Spaghetti Lasagna Recipe
Discover the best way to use your leftover spaghetti with this delicious Spaghetti Lasagna recipe. Perfect for a quick dinner, this dish is a family favorite with layers of spaghetti, creamy cottage cheese, and melted mozzarella.
Ingredients
- 1 16 ounce package thin spaghetti
- 4 cups prepared spaghetti sauce
- 1 cup small curd cottage cheese
- ½ cup fat-free sour cream
- 1 12 ounce package shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
- Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil. Stir in spaghetti and return to a boil. Cook until pasta is tender but still slightly firm, about 10 minutes. Drain well.
- Transfer spaghetti to a large bowl and toss with spaghetti sauce until well combined.
- Mix cottage cheese and sour cream in a bowl.
- Spread half the spaghetti with sauce into the prepared baking dish.
- Spread the cottage cheese mixture evenly over the spaghetti.
- Place the remaining spaghetti and sauce in an even layer over the cottage cheese mixture; sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.
- Bake in the preheated oven until bubbly and the cheese is browned, 30 to 40 minutes.
Notes
I like to take spicy Italian sausage and bake it in the oven while I prepare everything else. Then before I put the first layer of spaghetti in the baking dish, I put the sausage on the bottom of the pan and then do my layers, baking as usual.