Pizza In A Dish

This dish is a crowd pleaser. Whenever I have the kid’s friends stay the night this is the dish that is requested. This Casserole is what we have in place of pizza. I came across the original recipe a couple of years ago on a fellow Mom’s site. Her site has since disappeared, however, I did manged to find it listed on another site, here.

Over time, I have changed the recipe up to accommodate my family. I have made this recipe with Ground Turkey, Ground Chicken, Turkey Pepperoni, and whole wheat pasta. Instead of pasta sauce I use pizza sauce. I’ve also added veggies likes mushrooms and green peppers.

This time around, Hubby request that I add his favorite meats into the casserole.  He is a red meat fan and I have cut it out of our diet quite a bit. He is always a good sport when it comes to me trying to feed him healthier meals, so his requests do not go unnoticed.

This is my adaption of the Pizza Casserole

Ingredients:

1 bag of egg noodles

3-4 jars or bottles of Pizza sauce

4 cups of Shredded Mozzarella

1lb of Ground Italian Sausage

1lb of Ground Beef

1 package of Pepperoni

foil

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Brown the sausage and ground beef. Drain when done.

Cook the noodles until soft and then drain

I grabbed my mini baking dishes so that I could start layering the food.

The first layer is the pizza sauce on the bottom

Next layer is the noodles. Put enough in to cover us up the sauce.

Now place a layer of the beef mixture into the bowl

Continue layering with noodles, then cheese

Now a layer of sauce, then cheese

I added another layer of sauce

Last but not least, I topped the casserole with pepperoni

I put the casseroles on a cookie sheet, covered it with foil, and bake for 30 minutes covered. Take the foil off and bake for another 10-15 minutes if you want the top to be a bit more crusted.

We had some friends over for dinner so I made these mini ones for the kids.

And I made this one for the adults to eat.

I served it with a salad and garlic biscuits.

Have you heard of this dish before? How would you change it up to meet your family needs?