Traditional spaghetti with a hearty meat sauce piled high on top of crunchy garlic bread is spaghetti boats. Spaghetti boats are all your favorite parts of spaghetti night neatly stacked up so every bite is the cheese, noodles, meat sauce, and garlic bread.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Keyword Spaghetti Boats
Prep Time 30minutes
Cook Time 15minutes
Servings 6
Ingredients
To prepare spaghetti noodles in sauce
16ounce spaghetti noodles cooked to desired tenderness
2cups tomato sauce
¼cupsugar
¼teaspoon black pepper
To prepare the spaghetti meat sauce
1pound lean ground beefdrained and browned
12 ounce tomato sauce
¼cupwater
1spaghetti seasoning packet
To prepare garlic butter
½cupbutter (1 stick)melted
1tablespoongrated Parmesaon
1teaspoon oregano
2teaspoons garlic powder
Other
112 ozloaf French bread
2cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400° Farenheit.
Prepare the spaghetti noodles in sauce, spaghetti meat sauce, and butter mixture.
To prepare the spaghetti noodles in tomato sauce bring a pot of water to a boil(Per package intrucations.) and boil noodles to desired tenderness, drain noodles, and return to pot. Add tomatoe sauce, sugar and black pepper. Mix until combined.
To prepare the meat sauce: In a medium skillet, brown and drain ground beef. Return to skillet. Add in tomato sauce, water, and seasoning packet. Simmer for at least 10 minutes.
To prepare the garlic butter melt the butter down to a liquid in the microwave in a small bowl. Add parmensaon cheese, orageno, and garlic. Mix to combine and set aside.
Time to build our spaghetti boats!
Cut the french bread down the middle horizontally creating a top and bottom slab or boats. Put the boats on a baking or cookie sheet lined with parchment paper cut sides up.
Taking a pastry brush coat the boat tops generously with the garlic butter mixture using the entire mixture. Bake at 400 degrees for 5-10 minutes just until the top and side are lightly browning.
Remove boats from oven and pile on the spaghetti noodles and then the meat sauces on top of the noodles. Once you have your preferred about of spaghetti on the boats evenly add the mozzarella cheese. You might want to even press the cheese down into the boats to make it stay.
Bake at 400 degrees for 5-7 minutes until cheese melts and then broil for 2-3 minutes to brown cheese slightly. Cut into 1-inch slices and enjoy!