Million Dollar Pasta

I have no idea where I found this recipe but it used to be called Million Dollar Spaghetti. After the first time I made it, I thought…why the hell would anyone make this with spaghetti. I don’t know about you, but I’m a grown up and I don’t need to be splashing spaghetti sauce all over my clothes if I don’t absolutely need to. So I switched to rigatoni and we like it much better. I also added a bit more sour cream and cottage cheese than the original recipe called for. Lastly, I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS buy roasted garlic spaghetti sauce. This is a decadent and MEATY dish…don’t fuck it up with some weird spaghetti sauce that has veggies in it. Gross.

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Serving Size: 6-8 servings

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Million Dollar Pasta

One of our absolute favorites.

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 55 MinTotal time: 1 H & 5 M

Ingredients

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 24-oz jar roasted garlic spaghetti sauce
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1 1/4 cup cottage cheese
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 16-ounce package rigatoni
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• Salt and pepper, as needed

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Boil pasta until al dente (firm). Drain and set aside until ready to assemble.
3. Combine the cream cheese, sour cream and cottage cheese until well blended. Add salt and pepper, as desired.
4. Brown the hamburger and drain well. Combine the hamburger and spaghetti sauce.
5. Assembly:
6. Slice 1/2 of the butter into pats and spread around 9x13-inch pan.
7. Pour 1/2 of the pasta noodles on top.
8. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over noodles.
9. Pour the rest of the noodles on top of the cream cheese mixture.
10. Slice the remaining butter into pats and spread across the top of the noodles.
11. Top with meat sauce.
12. Bake for 30 minutes.
13. Add shredded cheese and bake an additional 15 minutes.

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