Pizza Pasta
Pizza night flavors in a pasta pan — Pizza Pasta, Pizza Pasta Bake, Pizza Pasta Salad and Margarita Pizza Pasta, for busy weeknights with hungry kids.
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Pizza Pasta
This Pizza Pasta is an easy, customizable, and delicious comfort food that combines classic pizza toppings with pasta. Perfect for busy weeknights, it can be made in less than 30 minutes and is highly adaptable to your favorite toppings.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 12 ounces rotini pasta
- ½, diced yellow onion
- ½ cup, sliced mushrooms
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 2 14-ounce jars pizza sauce
- to taste pepperoni slices
- 1 cup cooked chopped bacon
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- to taste salt & black pepper
Instructions
- 1Preheat oven to 350°F. Cook pasta according to package instructions until al dente, then drain.
- 2In a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook ground beef, diced onions, and mushrooms until the beef is no longer pink and the vegetables are tender. Add minced garlic and cook for 30-45 seconds until fragrant. Drain excess grease and season with Italian seasoning, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
- 3Add pizza sauce, bacon, pepperoni slices, and cooked pasta to the skillet. Stir until well combined.
- 4Transfer the mixture to a baking dish, top with shredded mozzarella, additional bacon pieces, and pepperoni slices.
- 5Bake at 350°F for 10-15 minutes until the cheese is melted and golden brown. Serve hot.
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Everybody in the house says yes to pizza, but nobody wants to wait on dough on a Tuesday. Rotini, sauce, browned beef or sausage and a handful of pepperoni get you to the same place in one pan.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection when practice runs late, when the kids have friends over, or when they need one skillet that feeds a crowd and reheats well the next day.
Every recipe here leans on pantry basics: Pizza Pasta with ground beef and diced onion, a Pizza Pasta Bake made with a jar of pizza sauce and ground sausage, a cold Pizza Pasta Salad with halved pepperonis and cherry tomatoes, and Margarita Pizza Pasta with elbows, tomato sauce and minced garlic.
Quick Tips
- 1
Undercook the pasta slightly
Pull rotini 2 minutes before the box says done if it's going in the oven. It keeps soaking up sauce while it bakes.
- 2
Brown the meat first
Cook ground beef or sausage 6 to 8 minutes until no pink shows, then drain the fat so the sauce isn't greasy.
- 3
Crisp the pepperoni
Lay pepperoni on top for the last 10 minutes of baking, uncovered, so the edges curl and brown.
- 4
Cool the pasta salad
Rinse cooked rotini under cold water and chill at least 1 hour before mixing in tomatoes and pepperoni.
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