Saucy Spaghetti Bake

Name: Saucy Spaghetti Bake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Cuisine: American, Italian
Ingredients: 1 lb uncooked spaghetti ((see note)); 1 jar 22 fl oz/ 650 mL prepared tomato sauce; 3 1/2 cups water; 1/4 cup tomato paste; 1 yellow onion (chopped); 4 cloves garlic (minced or pressed); 1 teaspoon dried basil; 1 teaspoon dried oregano; 3/4 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon black pepper; 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes ((optional)); 1/4 cup vegan butter; 2 cloves garlic (minced or pressed); 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 cups plant-based milk ((such as oat or soy)); 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon dried basil leaves; 1/2 teaspoon onion powder

Instructions

Prep:10minCook:55min

Uncooked spaghetti is added to a baking dish along with water, tomato sauce, and seasonings, and then it’s baked. Yes, you read that right: the spaghetti bakes in the oven! (How cool is that?) When you boil spaghetti, the water that you drain away has a ton of starch in it, but in this recipe the starch has nowhere to escape, so it cooks into the sauce and makes it extra luscious and creamy! Topped with a quick homemade alfredo sauce, this easy recipe will become a new weeknight staple.Excerpted from Craving Vegan by Sam Turnbull. Copyright © 2023 Sam Turnbull. Photographs by Tanya Pilgram. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.

Updated at: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:01:47 GMT