Pizza Spaghetti

Pizza Spaghetti


1/2 pound lean ground beef
1/2 pound Italian turkey sausage links, casings removed, crumbled
1/2 cup chopped sweet onion
4 cans (8 oz each) no salt added tomato sauce
3 oz, sliced turkey pepperoni
1 tbsp sugar
2 tsp minced fresh parsley or 1/2 tsp dried parsley
2 tsp minced fresh basil or 1/2 tsp dried basil
9 oz uncooked whole wheat spaghetti
3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese

1. In a large nonstick skillet, cook the beef, sausage and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain.

2. Stir in the tomato sauce, pepperoni, sugar, parsley and basil. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered for 20-25 minutes or until thickened. Meanwhile, cook spaghetti according to package directions.

3. Drain spaghetti; toss with sauce. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

makes 6 servings 1 1/3 cups each
Cal 369; fat 9; fiber 7


This stuff is great. It's like a supreme pizza, spaghettified. My husband isn't much of a spaghetti fan, but he regularly requests this. I substitute (surprise, surprise) ground turkey for the beef and I don't use the Italian sausage, mostly because of personal preference. I can get the turkey sausage links that are just plain and I use those, mostly because I don't like the fennel in the other stuff. The package that I buy has 5 links, and I use 2 1/2 and freeze the other rest for another go round of this stuff. I typically add the 1/2 log of turkey that's leftover too and label it for pizza spaghetti. I didn't think about it until I was typing this up, but this might be really good to add a little green pepper too to give it a more supreme pizza taste.