Recipe: Appetizing Easy Pizza baked pasta

Easy Pizza baked pasta. The secret to success when making a pasta bake is simple: Always start with slightly uncooked pasta. Soggy, overcooked noodles are the quickest way to take this pizza-inspired casserole (or any pasta casserole, for that matter) from hero to zero in a flash. Save some time when you prepare this Easy Pizza-Pasta Bake!

Fortunately, I'm realizing that there are many strategies for creating fulsome, hearty dishes without spending hours in the kitchen. This easy vegan pizza pasta bake is proof. In baking dish, mix pasta and pizza sauce. You can have Easy Pizza baked pasta using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy Pizza baked pasta

1. Prepare 1 box of penne pasta.
2. Prepare 1 jar of spaghetti sauce.
3. It's 1 package of pepperoni.
4. Prepare 1 of roll of sausage.
5. You need 1 (8 oz) of package of mozzarella cheese.
6. You need of Italian herbs and parmesan cheese.

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Easy Pizza baked pasta step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375. In a skillet cook and ground sausage fully, drain and set aside.
2. Cook pasta as directed on box, I prefer penne pasta but any shape works.
3. Mix pasta with herbs, sauce, sausage.
4. Top with pepperoni and then sprinkle cheese on top and add more herbs and parmesan cheese on top of desired.
5. Cover and bake at 375 for 30 minutes or more until pasta is heated throughly and cheese is nice and melted on top.
6. You can serve with garlic bread if desired or a side salad. You can add another half of a jar of pasta sauce if desired to make it stay more moist if you’re planning on putting left overs in the fridge since pasta absorbs liquids and sauces.

This is one dish the whole family will easily agree on, it's pretty hard to go wrong with a Pizza Pasta Casserole!! You'll want to make sure you use a good quality pasta sauce in this recipe… and I've. And it's the easiest pizza I have ever made. Plus, the mini pepperonis are so much fun to eat! I used GF pasta in my dish, but wow!