This Cheesy Pizza Spaghetti Casserole is so good! Full of your favorite pizza toppings, pasta, ground beef or pork, pepperoni and cheese! I am embarrassed to admit how much I love all of the ingredients in this casserole. I have even missed quite a few pizza toppings that you can include! This recipe is a definite keeper!
I just love this casserole. It contains two of my favorite things, pizza and pasta, all in one dish! It’s like I get the best of both worlds in one meal! This rarely happens to make!
Love the cheese, the pepperoni, inside and out, and all of the pizza toppings you can include! Anything your heart prefers or desires. I usually go with mushrooms, onions, peppers but have used non traditional pizza toppings as well, like carrots and peas. No one is going to complain.
Ingredients for Cheesy Pizza Spaghetti Casserole
- spaghetti, macaroni or your favorite pasta
- ground beef, chicken, turkey, pork or sausage
- sliced pepperoni
- pasta sauce
- onion
- sweet peppers
- mushrooms
- garlic
- Italian seasoning
- shredded cheese
- parmesan cheese
- crushed red pepper flakes
- salt
- pepper
- cooking spray
How to make Cheesy Pizza Spaghetti Casserole
Cook spaghetti or macaroni noodles according to package directions, rinse, drain and set aside.
Prepare a 9×13 inch pan with a light coating of cooking spray. Set aside.
In a large skillet brown your ground meat, onion, mushrooms, peppers, and garlic. Cook until meat is no longer pink inside. Drain if needed.
In a large bowl, combine the pasta sauce, meat mixture, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and quartered pepperoni slices. Mix well.
Spoon the mixture into your prepared pan. Cover with foil and bake.
Uncover casserole and top with the shredded cheese, then sprinkle parmesan and full pepperoni slices.
Return to oven and bake an additional 10 minutes or until cheese is melted and has started to brown.
Let stand for 10 minutes and then serve.
Hopefully you have a moment to take a peek at them as well! You never know when you will stumble on to a keeper!
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Meat Lovers Pizza Pasta Casserole
Creamy Beef and Mushroom Stroganoff
Simple Skillet Chicken Stroganoff
Cheesy Pizza Spaghetti Casserole
Equipment
- 13 x 9 inch pan
Ingredients
- 8 oz spaghetti or elbow macaroni - or 2 cups
- 1 pound ground chicken ground turkey, ground beef, ground pork, or, ground sausage -
- 1 cup pepperoni sliced and sliced into quarters - quartered + 18 full slices for casserole top
- 1 jar (26 oz) pasta sauce
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 ½ cups mushrooms, fresh, sliced
- 1 pepper, green, yellow, orange or red, cored, chopped -
- 1-2 tblsp garlic, minced
- 1 tblsp dried Italian seasoning -
- 1 ½ - 2 cups cheese, shredded
- ½ cup parmesan cheese, grated or shredded
- cooking spray
- 2 tsp dried crushed red pepper flakes - optional, more or less to taste
- ½ tsp salt -
- ½ tsp pepper -
Instructions
- Cook spaghetti or macaroni noodles according to package directions, rinse, drain and set aside.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare a 9x13 inch pan with a light coating of cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large skillet brown your ground meat, onion, mushrooms, peppers, and garlic. Cook until meat is no longer pink inside. Drain if needed.
- In a large bowl, combine the pasta sauce, meat mixture, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and quartered pepperoni slices. Mix well.
- Add enough pasta for your tastes and stir until coated.
- Spoon the mixture into your prepared pan.
- Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
- Uncover casserole and top with the shredded cheese, then sprinkle parmesan and full pepperoni slices.
- Return to oven and bake an additional 10 minutes or until cheese is melted and has started to brown.
- Let stand for 10 minutes and then serve. Enjoy!
Notes
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