BAKED SAUSAGE PEPPERONI PASTA CASSEROLE
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Baked Sausage Pepperoni Pasta Casserole is a quick meal made with pepperoni, sausage, and plenty of cheese, all mixed with pasta in tomato sauce and baked until bubbly!
I skipped doing something I really love today because I have so much blog work to do. Seems crazy that my ‘hobby’ has turned into such a passion. My Type A personality won’t let me do some half-way therefore, I get a little obsessed about whatever it is that I’m doing.
I was thinking I need an assistant, but then I realized I have two free minions that I could make persuade into helping. They’re my children. It’s totally okay to include blog work into their chore list, right? Well, even if you say ‘no’, they’re easily bribed persuaded with extra gaming time.
But, then, there’s the issue of ‘Will they do it the way I want it done?‘
I have control issues too
and that’s wayyyy too much to talk about in one blog post. 😉
Baked Sausage Pepperoni Pasta Casserole
So here I am bringing you this fabulous casserole because I found this really cool new vegetable cooking spray product. It’s PAM Cooking Spray’s “99% Less Residue” product! I have learned my lesson the hard way and had many a cake stick to the pan and be rendered un-presentable. I turned one into truffles and one into a trifle. But, that’s not what I wanted to present to my dinner guests!
Since receiving the PAM Cooking Spray 99% Less Residue to try, I’ve used it on many different cooking and baking projects. Even though I’m featuring a casserole, I’ve used it on homemade sourdough bread, cupcakes, muffins as well as savory casseroles and dishes. I did find it to leave less residue on my bakeware. Less residue equals less clean-up time; it makes it easier to clean up as well!
Do you know what else I found the product to do? It actually works better at releasing food from pans. Ultimately, it will last longer and cost less because you need less of it. Win. Win. New formulas of Original,
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Baked Sausage Pepperoni Pasta Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 pound Italian Sausage
- 4 cups seasoned tomato sauce like this or spaghetti sauce
- 12 ounces pasta I used penne (like this) but you can use any shape
- 4 ounces pepperoni sliced, I just used about half the 7 oz package
- 3 cups mozzarella shredded
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions to the al denta stage. Drain.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large skillet, cook sausage until it's no longer pink. Break it up into crumbles as it cooks. Remove to a paper towel-lined platter to drain.
- Combine tomato sauce, pasta, sausage, and pepperoni.
- Spray a 9x13 with Pam 99% Less Residue Cooking spray
- Pour pasta into casserole dish.
- Top pasta with mozzarella cheese.
- Place in oven and bake 25 to 30 minutes until hot, bubbly and cheese is melted.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
My favorite is a chocolate brownie pie 🙂 Awesome giveaway
My favorite pie is Pecan and I would make that for sure! Thanks for the giveaway. Your pasta looks amazing!
Sausage and pepperoni in one pasta – I’m in! Thank you for linking to the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party. I look forward to seeing you next week.
um… these look seriously delicious! I’m pretty sure I could eat 15 of these yummy morsels!
Thank you for linking up at our Holiday link party!
-Jane @ urbanejane.com
I love pie and caramel apple streusel is my favorite.
This sounds easy and delicious. I love having a reason to crank on the oven during the winter. Oh, and I like your about me sidebar-the first thing that popped into my mind was eating cookie dough while running;)
Thanks, Christine, I like easy dishes.
I think I run because I eat so much cookie dough, not at the same time though…but I did get behind a man smoking a pipe and running once.
You didn’t have tge sausage addressed in the directions.
This recipe sounds delish and your pictures are DROOL-WORTHY!
Thank you SO much, Becky!
I was using store brand cooking spray and the bottle got all gunky. Gross! I recently bought some of the PAM spray and noticed that there isn’t any residue on the bottle either. Gotta love that! Great recipe, Paula!
Exactly! I did the same thing in the past, then sometimes it gets so gunked up it won’t spray and you waste half the bottle! Thanks for stopping by, Julie.
You had me at pasta! Thanks for sharing a hearty meal that even my picky husband will eat.
Me too, I could live off of pasta! Thanks for stopping by!
I’ll have to give this one a try!