MEXICAN BAKED SPAGHETTI
If you love a great pasta dish, add this Mexican Baked Spaghetti to your menu. Loaded in flavor and super versatile.
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
We are huge fans of Mexican dishes and this one hits the spot. With taco meat, refried beans, cream cheese and pasta, this dish comes together great. Then you add your favorite veggies! It’s such a versatile dish and it reheats well, too. The cream cheese is a great addition to this baked dish, it makes it really creamy.
SWAPS
You can make this dish with ground beef or ground turkey. If you use ground turkey, we recommend doubling the taco seasoning. Turkey is pretty bland, so it needs to be really seasoned. If you’re not a fan of green chilies, leave them out. If you want to add onion and green pepper, you can add those to the meat mixture and cook it all together. Not a fan of refried beans, you can replace those with black beans or leave them out altogether. This is great garnished with guacamole or sour cream!
Wow, this was excellent!
So glad I found this recipe. I found that it reheats very well, so my husband and I enjoyed it for 3 nights!!! It’s terrific with a little sour cream, jalapeno, and tortilla chips! Thanks so much for the recipe!
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Mexican Baked Spaghetti
Ingredients
- 1 lb of ground beef
- 8 ounces of spaghetti noodles
- 2-3 cups of Mexican shredded cheese
- 1 can of diced tomatoes I use Rotels Lime and Cilantro
- 1 packet of taco seasoning
- 4 ounces of cream cheese softened
- 1 4 ounce can of green chilies
- 1 16 ounce can of refried beans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Cook pasta according to package directions. Brown ground beef over medium heat until cooked through. Drain. Add taco seasoning, diced tomatoes, green chilis, cream cheese and refried beans to the ground beef and cook over medium heat until cooked through and warm.
- Grease a 9X13 baking dish and place half the noodles on the bottom. Spread meat mixture over noodles. Cover with half of the shredded cheese. Repeat. Cover dish with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Serve with salsa, sour cream, guacamole and tortilla chips.
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I felt like the flavor of the refried beans overpowered everything, so I will probably swap that for pinto beans next time and maybe a second can of Rotel. I loved how I was able to cut it in such tidy squares, unlike regular baked spaghetti.
One Word. Amazing!
Followed the recipe but added pinto beans drained and southwest frozen vegetables, and used black bean pasta because of gluten issues. It was delicious. Everyone loved it. Thanks for the recipe.
Wow, this was excellent! So glad I found this recipe. I found that it reheats very well, so my husband and I enjoyed it for 3 nights!!! It’s terrific with a little sour cream, jalepeno, and tortilla chips! Thanks so much for the recipe!
Thank you for the kind words! We’re thrilled you and your husband enjoyed it!
I’m making this tonight. But I don’t have the Rotel tomato’s. Thought I did. But I do have petit diced tomato’s. Will those still work ? And do I have to drain the tomato’s or use the juice they came in ? Thankyou ! Mary K 🙂
Diced tomatoes will work just fine, and no you don’t have to drain the tomatoes. Hope you love it!
I made this last Friday night just for something different during the quarantine. It was sooooooo good. We added sour cream and some green onion on top. My son ate all the leftovers the next day. This is definitely something I will make again and again!!!
Oh gosh! This makes us so happy! So glad you enjoyed this one, we love it too!
I’m so glad I found this recipe! It’s so good and my entire family loves it. Definitely will be making this dish a lot.
Wonderful! So glad you enjoyed this one. We love it too!
This is delicious! Followed the directions with the exception of seasoning the ground beef some. I was worried I would struggle with pasta in a Mexican dish but I was wrong! I had all of the ingredients on hand and I love Mexican food so decided to go for it. Serve with a dollop of sour cream and a tossed green salad and you are good to go. Thank you so much for the recipe.
Oh goodness.. we are so glad you decided to give this one a try! Our family loves it too and we think it’s a great twist on a classic. Thank you so much for the wonderful comment.