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MILLION DOLLAR SPAGHETTI PIE


A few months ago, I tried Braided Spaghetti Bread (http://rhodesbread.com/blog/blog/braided-spaghetti-bread).  It was a hit and I have made it a few times since, perfecting it my way each time.  I now make it in a cake pan with crust on top and bottom instead of a braid (which I was not good at).

It was another hit with the boys.

So, I decided to go crazy and combine the two!!

Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 pound spaghetti noodles
1 loaf frozen bread dough (thawed)
8 oz mozzarella cheese, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
Parmesan Cheese
8 oz cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1/2 cup sour cream
16 oz small curd cottage cheese
Minced Garlic
Shredded Mozarella Cheese
Parsley Flakes
1 egg white, beaten
1 onion
Seasonings (garlic powder & salt, onion powder & salt, oregano, pepper, etc.)


Brown ground beef with onion and minced garlic.  Add spaghetti sauce and seasonings to taste.  Let simmer for 20 minutes or so.


Prepare spaghetti noodles per package, drain.


Mix cream cheese, sour cream and cottage cheese.  I also add parsley flakes, oregano, garlic powder and onion powder.  I blend it with a hand blender to make sure the cream cheese incorporates.



Roll out the bread dough.  It is best to flour your surface and the dough, then roll out best as you can.  Let it rest, covered with plastic wrap, for 10-15 minutes.  Then go back to it and roll it out how you want it.  I rolled it out as shown, then cut it into two pieces - 1/3 & 2/3.


Place 2/3 of dough in a well greased cake pan (I used Pam spray).  The sides kept falling down, but I kept it up best I could until I got some of the ingredients into it.  I put a little meat sauce in the bottom to start.


Layer:

Spaghetti noodles
Meat sauce
Cottage Cheese/sour cream/cream cheese mixture
Mozzarella cubes
Parmesan Cheese


I did that twice, then added the last of the spaghetti noodles, meat sauce, shredded mozzarella and Parmesan cheese.


I covered it with the remaining 1/3 of dough and folded the sides of it into the bottom pieces to fit together.  Brush with beaten egg white and top with Parsley flakes and Parmesan cheese.



Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes.

Here it is cut into:


And my piece (center-I don't like as much bread as the boys do):

I'm thinking it needs more red sauce, but is really good the way it is, too.  Two thumbs up from Jesse & JJ!

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