You are your people and going to go batty-batty-batty over this pasta meal.
What I’ve got for you here is the “basic or base” recipe for a pizza-pasta-bake.
It’s pasta, tossed with meat sauce, topped with cheese and pepperoni. There are LOTS of ways you can adapt this for your family – mixing in other favorite pizza toppings like mushrooms, black olives, green bell peppers, even a little ham and pineapple bits (for Hawaiian style). Also, I used ground beef for the meat sauce, but this would be delicious with all ground Italian sausage or half-half sausage and beef.
However you love your pizza, you can recreate it in this pasta bake! 😉
Also, easy to cut in half and make in an 8×8-inch dish!
So, here’s how it goes…
Cook the swirly, twirly pasta and drain it well.
Brown the ground beef and drain…then add to a bowl and…
Toss with the marinara sauce
Mmmm.
Like, you can see where this is going and just Mmmmmm.
Add the pasta and toss well, then…
Spread into baking dish…
Add a layer of cheese, then pepperoni, then a little more cheese and…
BAKE.
Then, you can start drooling, err, enjoying this supper! It’s perfect with a side salad, or fresh fruit!
ENJOY!!!
Pepperoni Pizza Pasta Bake
Yield – 8 servings
Preparation Time – 15 minutes
Cooking Time – 25 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 lbs. ground beef
- 2 Tbsp minced onion
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 16 oz. spiral pasta
- 26 oz. jar marinara or spaghetti sauce
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 8 oz. pepperoni slices
- Grated Parmesan cheese, garnish
- Side salad or fresh fruit
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a large skillet, brown the ground beef with minced onion and garlic powder. Drain, if needed.
- Cook the pasta, al dente. Drain and toss with the marinara sauce and browned ground beef. Add pasta and meat sauce to 9×13-inch baking dish. Top with half of the shredded cheese, then add a layer of pepperonis, then top with remaining cheese.
- Bake uncovered in the preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until warmed through and cheese has melted. Add grated Parmesan cheese garnish.
- Serve Pepperoni Pizza Bake with side salad.
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