
Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, Pepperoni pizza pasta bake. one of my favorites food. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look deliciou
Reminiscent of classic pepperoni pizza, this weeknight casserole is made with a mess of curly noodles in place of the doughy crust, just the right ratio of sauce to melted cheese, and thin slices of pepperoni that crisp up as they bake. Then youll love this simple pasta bake which has all the flavours of the famous topping. Weve used oregano, pepperoni, mozzarella and passata and poured over rigatoni pasta.
I think this is one of the better recipes Ive done , it does require more ingredients than my favorite recipe which is hot wings (from frozen) and Upside.
A quick and easy pepperoni pasta bake recipe that is incredibly flavorful and tastes like a pepperoni pizza!
When I was in college, one of my roommates introduced me to the glory that is a Pepperoni Pasta Bake.
The Ingredients need to make Pepperoni pizza pasta bake:
- Prepare 16 oz of dry rigatoni pasta
- You need 1 can (28 oz) of peeled San marzno tomatoes
- It’s 1 can (28 Oz) of tomato puree
- Prepare of Pepperoni
- You need of Mozzarella shredded cheese divided
- It’s of Black pepper
- You need of Salt
- Prepare of Basil
- It’s of Oregon
- It’s of Onion powder
- You need of Garlic powder or Minced garlic
- Prepare of 2 cups chicken stock for making in an instant pot only and one cup of water
- Prepare of For seasoning they are made to taste a pinch of this a dash of that
With the flavours of pepperoni pizza, you just cant go wrong!
This pizza pasta bake was so good and so easy to make, I am sure it will be a family hit.
Its basically pepperoni pizza…in PASTA form!
Any pasta noodle shape you want is fine..
Step to make Pepperoni pizza pasta bake:
- Cook rigatoni’s pasta to box Direction
- In a big bowl combine all ingredients except the cheese and pepperoni and add the rigatoni pasta,mix… then spary a 13x9 baking dish. pour pasta mixture in baking dish…. crush the tomatoes before topping with some cheese cover with foil
- Bake at 400 till cheese melts remove from oven add the pepperoni and top it with more cheese place back in oven uncovered till cheese melt
- NOTES- the tomatoes need to be crushed, I made mine in an pressure cooker so iam not sure where you crush them but you don’t want big tomatoes)
- For cooking in the instant pot- add all ingredient except the cheese and pepperoni… cook for 6 mins under pressure. Spary a 13x9 baking dish After you release the pressure mix it and crush the tomatoes and remove any pasta that burned and stuck to the bottom then add the pasta mixture to the baking dish
- Bake at 400 till cheese melts remove from oven add the pepperoni and top it with more cheese place back in oven uncovered till cheese melt top with pepperoni and cheese cook in the oven uncovered at 400 till the pepperoni is done and cheese has melted. This won’t take long as the cheese melts as you put it on just want to brown it some.
- Sever with salad or garlic bread
- I didn’t have chicken broth so I used 2 bouillon cubes with 2 cups of
- Notes- my pasta burned and stuck to the bottom. I recommend not doing this in an instant pot or pressure cooker. My pictures look different because my pressure cooker as an air fryer lid as well so I didn’t need to put mine in the oven, if anyone was wondering why mine looks so different.
Great for feeding a crowd too!
Add this yummy dish to your weekly dinner rotation!
I added crumbled bacon and sliced black olives plus pizza/pasta seasoning and garlic powder.
Think of pepperoni pizza, but as pasta!
Kid-friendly, and parents can add some extra spice to their bowls with a crunchy breadcrumb topping.
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