These chicken Parmesan spaghetti cups are the perfect bite size appetizer for your next party. A fun twist on a classic Italian dish.
There is nothing I love more than finger foods. So I am all about appetizers and party food. I really love having the choice to try a little bit of a lot of things.
And what is cuter than mini main dishes? Such as mini burgers, mini hot dogs, so why not mini chicken parmesan.
What do I need to make these?
- Popcorn chicken– You can easily find this in the freezer section of your local grocery store. Chicken nuggets are a little too big for this recipe
- Spaghetti or angle hair pasta and you don’t even need a lot of it
- Pasta sauce– to make this really easy just buy some premade sauce or I have a really great sauce recipe on my Chicken Parmesan recipe
- Mozzarella Cheese– I personally used string cheese, but shredded or sliced works just as well.
- Grated Parmesan Cheese– because no great Italian dish is without it
- Eggs– to help form the spaghetti cups
- Olive oil and Italian seasoning
Prepping the spaghetti
Start by taking the cooked spaghetti and letting it cool some or rinse with cold water and add to a bowl (Photo 1) Then add the whisked eggs to the spaghetti (Photo 2)
Next add the grated Parmesan cheese (Photo 3) and Italian seasonings (Photo 4) to the bowl of spaghetti and mix together really well with your hands (Photo 5)
Assembling the Chicken Parmesan Spaghetti Cups
Take a mini muffin tin and spray each muffin spot with cooking spray (Photo 1) Take a little bit of the spaghetti mixture and form it in the muffin spot (Photo 2) Repeat with each muffin spot
Add a little bit of spaghetti sauce on top of each spaghetti cup (Photo 3) Then add a popcorn chicken to each spaghetti cup (Photo 4)
Cook that for 10 minutes in the oven at 375 degrees
Next pull the muffin tin out of the oven and add spaghetti sauce on top of each popcorn chicken (Photo 5) and then a piece of Mozzarella cheese on top (Photo 6) Put back into the oven for 5 minutes (Photo 7) for the cheese to melt
Tips and Tricks
- Make sure to grease the whole inside of each muffin tin. Otherwise the spaghetti will stick and tear
- Do use popcorn chicken instead of chicken nuggets. The popcorn chicken is just the right size for the mini muffin tins
- Any store bought pasta sauce will do or you can use my pasta sauce recipe from my Chicken Parmesan recipe. I would just dilute it with a little bit more water to get the texture of sauce you are going for.
- What type of Mozzarella cheese you use does not matter. Cut slices of Mozzarella down to fit over the popcorn chicken. Throw some shredded Mozzarella on top. Or use parts of string cheese like I did.
- Don’t add the top layer of pasta sauce and layer of cheese until after you have already cooked the cups and chicken before. The cheese will be too melted and start to get hard.
- You can use regular muffin cups, but you will need more spaghetti and will probably want to use chicken nuggets instead of popcorn chicken
Want more bite size recipes?
Chicken in a Biscuit
Even Better Sausage Balls
Spicy Sausage Mashed Potato Bombs
Buffalo Chicken Bombs
Or check out all the other great Appetizer recipes I have
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Chicken Parmesan Spaghetti Cups
Ingredients
- 5 ounces spaghetti cooked
- 30 popcorn chicken depends on the size of your muffin tin
- 5 slices Mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 10 ounces pasta sauce
- 1 TBSP Italian seasoning
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Cook spaghetti as directed on box. Either let cool or rinse with cold water in a strainer
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Add parmesan, whisk eggs, and Italian seasoning to the bowl of spaghetti and mix together well
- Spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray
- Take some spaghetti and fill each muffin tin with it and form a little bowl shape
- Add some pasta sauce on top of each spaghetti bowl
- Add a popcorn chicken into each spaghetti bowl and cook for 10 minutes
- Remove from oven and add some pasta sauce on top of each popcorn chicken
- Add a piece of Mozzarella cheese on top of each popcorn chicken and put back in oven for another 5 minutes
Notes
- Make sure to grease the whole inside of each muffin tin. Otherwise the spaghetti will stick and tear
- Do use popcorn chicken instead of chicken nuggets. The popcorn chicken is just the right size for the mini muffin tins
- Any store bought pasta sauce will do or you can use my pasta sauce recipe from my Chicken Parmesan recipe. I would just dilute it with a little bit more water to get the texture of sauce you are going for.
- What type of Mozzarella cheese you use does not matter. Cut slices of Mozzarella down to fit over the popcorn chicken. Throw some shredded Mozzarella on top. Or use parts of string cheese like I did.
- Don’t add the top layer of pasta sauce and layer of cheese until after you have already cooked the cups and chicken before. The cheese will be too melted and start to get hard.
- You can use regular muffin cups, but you will need more spaghetti and will probably want to use chicken nuggets instead of popcorn chicken
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