A tasty nostalgic recipe, this School Cafeteria Spaghetti is an easy homemade dinner meal that will bring you back to the good old days. With simple ingredients and tons of flavor, this is a recipe your family will make over and over!
In a large skillet over medium heat, brown ground beef with minced onions. Be sure to smash beef into small pieces while cooking.
While meat is cooking, prepare tomatoes. Remove whole tomatoes from can and dice them to your preferred size (keep the tomato juice in the can for the next step).
Add diced tomatoes and juice from tomatoes, tomato paste, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, Italian seasoning, basil, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to a large bowl.
Stir the mixture together well.
When meat is done, drain any fat. Stir in dry spaghetti sauce mix.
Add tomato mixture to meat and stir together.
Bring to a slow boil. Allow to simmer for 10-15 minutes or until the sauce thickens.
While the meat/tomato mixture is simmering, prepare spaghetti noodles according to package directions and drain.
When sauce is thickened, stir cooked pasta in.
Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top. Serve and enjoy.
Notes
You can use other meats: ground chicken, turkey or Italian sausage.
Other pasta can be used, just make sure that you use a pound.
This can be frozen, see above on how to do that.
You can use canned diced tomatoes if you'd like. This original recipe was made with canned whole tomatoes that are then diced up by hand.
The sugar is used to cut the acidity of the tomatoes. I highly recommend using it.