Pizza Casserole Recipe 445 Food

PIZZA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven and prepare the casserole dish: Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease a 9x13-inch casserole dish with cooking spray. Set it aside.
• Cook the pasta: Fill a large pot with water, season the water generously with salt, and bring it up to a boil over high heat. Cook the pasta in the boiling water according to the package instructions, until al dente. Strain the pasta into a colander placed in the sink and set it aside.

PIZZA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 2. Cook noodles according to package directions.
• 3. While noodles are cooking, brown sausage and hamburger in a pan.
• 4. Add pepperoni the last few minutes of cooking the hamburger/sausage. Drain the grease from the meat.
• 5. Also while noodles are cooking, saute vegetables of choice (if any) to add to casserole.
• 6. Add pizza sauce to the meat mixture.
• 7. Season with salt pepper and sugar.
• 8. Add vegetables and warm for about 5 minutes.
• 9. Toss noodles into the meat/sauce mixture.
• 10. Spray a non-stick cooking spray into a 9x13 casserole dish.
• 11. Pour the mixture into the dish. Top with enough mozzarella cheese to cover the casserole. [The more cheese the better :-)!!]
• 12. Bake for 20-30 minutes at 350 (until bubbly).
• 13. You can make this as simple or as complex as you desire. IF you go for the simpler route (noodles, hamburger, pepperoni and sauce) only need 1 jar sauce and 8 oz of noodles. If you go for the heartier version (all meats and veggies), use 2 jars sauce and 16 oz noodles.

SUPREME PIZZA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain well.
• While pasta is cooking, brown ground beef, onion, and garlic in a pan. Season with salt and pepper and drain fat.
• Stir in vegetable toppings (if using), cook an additional 3-4 minutes or until tender. Add drained tomatoes, oregano, Italian seasoning, pizza sauce, and marinara sauce. Simmer 5 minutes.
• Toss pasta with the sauce.
• Spread into a greased 9×13 pan and top with the Mozza & cheddar blend and half of the pepperoni (and additional pepperoni slices if desired). Then top with parmesan cheese.
• Bake 15-20 minutes uncovered or until cheese is browned.

PIZZA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cook rotini according to package directions. Set aside.
• Meanwhile, cook and stir ground beef and onion in large skillet over medium high heat until meat is no longer pink. Season with salt and pepper.
• Combine rotini, pizza sauce, tomato sauce, tomato paste, sugar, garlic salt and oregano in large bowl. Add beef mixture, stir until blended.
• Plave half of mixture in 3 quart casserole, top with 1 cup cheese. Repeat layers. Arrange pepperoni slices on top. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until heated through and cheese is melted.

DELICIOUS GROUND BEEF PIZZA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Grease a 13x9-inch baking dish.
• Cook the gound beef in a medium skillet with the onions, green peppers, garlic, salt pepper until meat is browned and veggies are tender; drain fat, and mix in the Parmesan cheese.
• Stir in the 1/2-pound pepperoni (chop this pepperoni to add to the mixture, leave the remaining half pound pepperoni sliced), mushrooms, pasta sauce; stir well until combined; simmer for 20-25 minutes on top of stove.
• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Place the cooked rigatoni pasta on the bottom of the greased baking dish.
• Sprinkle with 2 cups mozzarella cheese over the pasta.
• Layer with pepperoni slices evenly over the cheese.
• Top with the ground beef/pasta sauce mixture.
• Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.
• Remove from oven, sprinkle with the remaining 2 cups mozzarella cheese.
• Return to oven and bake for 10 minutes longer, or until bubbly.
• Let stand for 10-15 minutes before serving.