Simple Way to Prepare Favorite Sicilian Spaghetti Bake

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, sicilian spaghetti bake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sicilian spaghetti bake using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sicilian Spaghetti Bake:

1. Make ready 1/2 box Barilla spaghetti
2. Make ready 1 lb ground Italian sausage
3. Take 1 can (14 1/2 ounce) diced tomatoes
4. Make ready 1 1/2 can (6 ounce) tomato paste
5. Prepare 1 tbsp the following…sugar, basil, oregano, thyme, marjoram, rosemary
6. Take 2 tbsp minced garlic
7. Get 1/2 tbsp cracked black pepper
8. Take 1/2 tbsp cracked sea salt
9. Prepare 3 cup Cottage Cheese
10. Get 1 cup Ricotta Cheese
11. Get 2 eggs
12. Get 5 cup freshly grated mozzarella
13. Prepare 1 tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)
14. Get 1 tbsp fresh parsley
15. Get 2 1/2 lbs salt

Steps to make Sicilian Spaghetti Bake:

1. In a pot add diced tomatoes, tomato paste, all spices above to a boil. Reduce to low simmer stirring with wooden spoon occasionally for at least one hour. (metal spoon will ruin the acidity of tomatoes).
2. Brown ground Italian sausage and drain. Pat dry sausage w paper towels. Add to tomato gravy. (our family calls sauce gravy!)
3. Boil spaghetti to "AL DENTE" (Italian for almost done) 6-7 minutes. Then drain.
4. In a bowl whisk Eggs, Ricotta, and Cottage Cheese.
5. Pre heat oven to 350°F.
6. In a large baking pie dish lightly oil bottom and sides. I use EVOO, any cooking spray will do.
7. Add spaghetti to bottom of pie dish. Pat down evenly.
8. Spoon eggs, Ricotta, and Cottage Cheese mixture evenly on pasta.
9. Spoon Grandma's 'gravy' over mixture evenly.
10. Spread mozzarella evenly over top.
11. Bake on center rack for 25 minutes. Garnish with fresh parsley.

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