One Pot Spaghetti
I have an easy spaghetti recipe for you guys that’s cooked in just one pot! It takes an already simple meal and makes it even quicker with less clean up!
Growing up, spaghetti was always a go to recipe for my parents.
It was actually never one of my favorites, probably because we ate it fairly often.
My parents went with the route of a box of spaghetti noodles, a bit of ground beef, and a jar of spaghetti sauce.
That’s fine. It tastes okay. I’m not needing anyone to spend 30 hours slaving over a pot of simmering tomato sauce, but I just don’t get super excited about that recipe, you know?
My kids, however, LOVE spaghetti and would happily eat it all the time.
We do a lot of my baked spaghetti. It’s full of cream cheese, cottage cheese, and sour cream. Sounds weird, but it’s so decadent.
I just like to doctor things up, including spaghetti!
But, sometimes you need a really quick easy spaghetti recipe and you don’t want to bust out a jar of sauce or dirty any extra dishes. Totally cool. I get it.
Boiling water for pasta is actually one of my least favorite things to do in the kitchen, which I know is silly. It just seems to take forever when you’re waiting on water to boil.
This spaghetti recipe is extra easy because everything happens in one pot. Don’t you love recipes like that?
I always use ground beef in my spaghetti, but you can use a mix of beef, veal, sausage – whatever you like.
Onions, garlic, and Italian seasoning add flavor to this recipe. Feel free to add more or less to your personal tastes. I sometimes go way crazy on the garlic. It’s tasty, but we all stink for the next couple of days. 😉
This easy spaghetti recipe is cooked in just one pot for minimal clean up and maximum flavor.
I use canned tomato sauce and canned diced tomatoes to keep things simple. If you have homemade tomato sauce, it should work just fine here.
Dried noodles get added right into the spaghetti sauce and boiled.
I love the way the noodles soak up the flavors of the spaghetti sauce as they cook. It really helps amp up the flavor of the whole dish.
My kiddos love this easy spaghetti recipe.
My daughter especially likes spaghetti recipes, because she saw a video on Facebook where a man used a pair of scissors while eating long noodles to avoid having to slurp them up into his mouth.
She now requires scissors on the table at pasta night.
Kids are weird. And pretty entertaining, to be honest.
Anyway, whether you slurp your noodles or not, I hope you enjoy this simple one pot spaghetti!
Have you tried my chicken spaghetti? It’s a favorite around here too and it’s full of spinach.
It’s not quite as simple as this one pot spaghetti, but it’s a nice way to use up those boxes of spaghetti noodles you have lurking in your pantry!
If you try this easy spaghetti recipe, I hope you’ll let me know what you think! 🙂
One Pot Spaghetti
This easy spaghetti recipe is made in just one dish for minimal clean up! I love the way the spaghetti sauce soaks into the noodles as they cook.
Ingredients
- 1 pound 85/15 ground beef
- 1 sweet onion, diced
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 15 ounces canned tomato sauce
- 15 ounces canned diced tomatoes
- 2 3/4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 12 ounces dried spaghetti noodles
- 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley
Instructions
- Add the ground beef and onion to a large dutch oven over medium heat and cook until browned. Drain the grease.
- Add the garlic to the pan and cook for 30 seconds, stirring.
- Stir in the tomato sauce, undrained canned tomatoes, and water. Add the Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, and sugar. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Once boiling, break the spaghetti in half and add to the pot. Stir to submerge the noodles in the liquid.
- Return to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and cover.
- Cook, stirring occasionally, for 10-12 minutes or until noodles are cooked through.
- Sprinkle the Parmesan cheese and parsley over the top and stir to combine.
- Serve immediately.
Recipe Notes
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| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving Size | |
| Amount Per Serving | As Served |
| Calories 513kcal Calories from fat 181 | |
| % Daily Value | |
| Total Fat 20g | 31% |
| Saturated Fat 8g | 40% |
| Transfat 1g | |
| Cholesterol 63mg | 21% |
| Sodium 1063mg | 44% |
| Carbohydrate 55g | 18% |
| Dietary Fiber 5g | 20% |
| Sugars 9g | |
| Protein 28g | |
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:
| Calories | 2000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Fat | Less than | 65g |
| Sat Fat | Less than | 25g |
| Cholesterol | Less than | 300mg |
| Sodium | Less than | 2,400mg |
| Total Carbohydrate | 300g | |
| Dietary Fiber | 25g | |
What a great idea! I always thought you had to boil the spaghetti noodles on the side- now I can save time and throw everything in the same pot! And your daughter should maybe design and market special ‘spaghtetti scissors’!
Haha! Yes, she would love to get those spaghetti scissors out to those in need. 🙂
I love these in pot meals. I do a spicy cheesy chicken one, a taco spaghetti and a lot mein.
Your spaghetti looks amazing, so much so, that I gave it a try. We had this for dinner, and my family and I loved it. So omazing!
So glad you enjoyed it!
I’m with your kids – I’d happily eat spaghetti every night too. Love a one-pot version!
Perfect comfort food Karly! And I love how it’s a one pot meal!
It’s on the stove cooking! Such a good easy recipe!
Hope you all loved it! 🙂
Made this dish last night and it was outstanding.
Made this for dinner last night and it was great!! So easy and everyone loved it! Thanks for the great recipe!
Yay! Glad you enjoyed it!
This was easy and delicious. Always looking for more wholesome pasta recipes for my kiddos. Definitely a new fave.
Glad to hear that! 🙂
This looks amazing and I am going to make it soon! My husband and I love spaghetti.
Looks good. I can’t wait to try it! Question, do you put the ground beef right back into the pot after draining? Or do you wait and add it in after the spaghetti is done cooking? Also, zucchini is amazing in red sauce. If you have some to use up, I think it would be amazing in this dish. We put it in our veggie red sauce all the time. The more veggies the better!
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Love spagetti in a pot too ! So easy and less mess I learned to make it in Girl Scout camp – over an open fire ! Can you believe it – sooo good !
I am trying this tonight. I, too, thought that you had to boil the pasta separately from the sauce. Thank you for a quick spaghetti recipe for someone who works 2 jobs and has little time to cook meals.
Looks yummy and will be trying it! You also had a picture of a plate of Chicken spaghetti that looks really good too, but I can’t find the recipe! Can you help? Thanks
I don’t have a recipe for chicken spaghetti on my site, so I’m guessing you saw it somewhere else. Sorry I can’t help!
The picture you saw was from Pinterest. I saw it too… : ) Hope this helps
Can you leave the sauce to simmer and then add spaghetti when your’e ready to eat?
I have’t tried doing this. I’d be worried that too much liquid would evaporate and the spaghetti wouldn’t cook properly.