This Pizza Pasta Bake recipe will become a family favorite. Flavorful pizza sauce tossed with rotini noodles, pizza toppings and melted cheese.
Pizza dates back thousands of years, believe it or not, tracing its roots back to the flatbreads with toppings that were popular with ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. But modern pizza, the flatbreads with tomato sauce, cheese, and toppings, was born along the western coast of Italy, in the city of Naples.
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Pizza Pasta Bake
This Pizza Pasta Bake recipe will become a family favorite. Flavorful pizza sauce tossed with rotini noodles, pizza toppings and melted cheese.
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Servings: 6
Calories: 564kcal
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground italian sausage or ground beef
- 1/2 medium onion diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 tsp italian seasoning
- 1 1/2 cups pizza sauce you can use spaghetti sauce if you like
- 3/4 cups water
- 3 cups rotini pasta measure before cooking
- 2 cups Mozzarella cheese shredded divided use
- 36 slices pepperoni divided use
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain pasta well.
- Brown italian sausage with onion, garlic and Italian seasoning.
- Start preheating oven to 350F degrees
- Drain excess grease from italian sausage.
- In a large bowl, mix together pizza sauce and water.
- Add in cooked pasta, 1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, cooked ground beef and 20 slices of pepperoni (that have been sliced in half). Stir well.
- Spray 8 x 8 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
- Pour in pasta mixture.
- Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup of mozzarella cheese.
- Place remaining pepperoni slices on top.
- Cover with aluminum foil.
- Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
- Remove aluminum foil and bake for another 5-10 minutes (until cheese is melted).
Nutrition
Calories: 564kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 38g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 100mg | Sodium: 1323mg | Potassium: 536mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 518IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 226mg | Iron: 2mg
