Johnny Marzetti Recipe

4.65 from 14 votes

Johnny Marzetti is a baked noodle dish prepared with ground beef and tomato sauce. Top it with your favorite cheese.

Prep Time25

Cook Time45

Total Time1 10

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 446kcal

Author: MasalaHerb.com

Bring water to a boil with salt and cook pasta as per package instructions. Strain and keep aside.
2½ Cups Pasta, Water, Salt

Prepare the fresh ingredients. Slice the onion, chop the garlic, and slice the mushrooms.
Heat up a skillet with olive oil and sauté onions until soft over a medium heat setting.
2 Tablespoon Olive Oil, 1 Medium Onion
Stir in chopped garlic and sauté for a minute or two over a lower heat setting.
3 Pieces Garlic Cloves
Add in the sliced mushrooms. Keep over a medium to high heat setting and try to stir and mix when they start to reduce in size.
2½ Cup Mushrooms
Turn the heat down to medium and continue to saute mushrooms until they have reduced considerably.
Make some space in the center and stir in ground beef. Keep over the same medium heat setting and stir-cook for a minute so that it all gets mixed up.
1 Pound Ground Beef
Season with salt, black pepper, and Italian seasoning. Use oregano if you can't get Italian seasoning.
½ Teaspoon Salt, ¼ Teaspoon Black Pepper Ground, 2 Tablespoon Italian Seasoning
Mix it all up and cook over a medium flame for a few more minutes until the beef isn't red anymore.
Take the pan from the heat.

Preheat your oven to 320 Fahrenheit/160 Celsius.
Spread whole peeled canned tomatoes in your rectangular baking dish. I like to just smash and break the tomato pieces with my spatula.
14 Ounces Whole Peeled Tomatoes
Pour in tomato sauce and season with salt and basil. Mix it up.
1 Cup Tomato Sauce, ½ Teaspoon Salt, 1½ Tablespoon Basil
Place cooked pasta into the casserole dish with the tomato. Also, add the ground-cooked beef mixture to the baking dish.
Stir and mix the contents of the Johnny Marzetti so that the pasta is evenly coated with tomato and beef sauce.
Top evenly with cheese.
1 Cup Cheese
Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil and bake covered first for 20 minutes at 320 degrees Fahrenheit/160 degrees Celsius.
Take out and uncover the dish, take it back to the oven, and finish baking uncovered at 320 Fahrenheit/160 Celsius for another 10 minutes. I like to use the broiler function so that the cheese gets crunchy and the dish gets some color on top.
Serve it up hot and enjoy.