Recipe Friday - Pizza Casserole

Pizza Casserole is a HUGE favorite at our house. It's easy to make, and everyone will gobble it up - very filling as well. If you have small children, they love to help put this dish together - in fact, the whole family can join in!

Ingredients to feed a family of 6 in a 9 x 13 glass panNOTE: if you plan to use alot of toppings, try finding a glass dish that is a little deeper. I have 4 of them, and 1 is thinner glass but about 1/2 inch deeper than the other two and so it's my favorite for this recipe.


1- 2 TB butter or margarine
1 lb ground turkey or hamburger (we like beef around here)
1 can tomato sauce (you can use pizza sauce if you would like)
1/2 box spaghetti (thin or regular)
Mozzerella cheese (more the better)
Pepperroni slices

Optional Ingredients:
ground sausage cooked up
bell peppers chopped
olives chopped
canadian bacon
cooked crumbled bacon
mushrooms
onion
(just about anything you might put on a pizza actually)

1) First cook the spaghetti noodles in a pot of boiling water as you usually would. At the same time, have your ground meat cooking in another pan.

2) chop up your veggies that you want.

3) Get your 9 x 13 inch glass pan and put a tab or two of butter in there and set it in an oven set at 350 degrees. We just want the butter to melt in the pan.

4) now that all your ingredients are ready - drain the ground meat, drain the spaghetti noodles.

In the glass dish do the following:

Pour in the noodles, and mix them around with the butter. Cover the noodles with the ground meat (if you did beef and sausage, it's good to mix them together here). Next, pour the pizza sauce or tomato sauce over the top. You could sprinkle on additional seasonings here if you wanted to.

Next sprinkle some grated mozzerella over the sauce. Now you can layer on your pizza toppings. We usually start with the pepperoni and canadian bacon then go on from there. Cover with a nice layer of mozerella.

Stick in the oven for 30 - 40 minutes. Check it at the 20 minute mark to see how much longer it needs. The top should be nicely melted and the top sides should be a little toasted/crispy looking.

I hope you and your family enjoy this simple and fun recipe. it's pretty inexpensive to make. You could modify this to be a Vegetarian pizza as well.