Pasta Pizza Bake

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If you like pizza, you’ll love this casserole not just for the taste but for the simplicity of it. Add your favorite pizza toppings to the casserole, in this case I used sausage,
green peppers, roasted red peppers, onions and of course mozzarella cheese. This is also a great freezer meal! Leave off the cheese and wrap tightly and freeze. Bring to room temperature, add cheese and bake. I love that this can be made in less than an hour and you probably have all of the ingredients on hand now.

Ingredients:

1 box (12oz) Ronzoni Smart Taste Rotini pasta
1 lb spicy or mild ground Italian sausage
1 green bell pepper,diced

4 pieces of jarred roasted red bell peppers, diced (that’s just an estimate, use what you like)
1/2 cup red onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups spaghetti sauce (or pizza sauce)

4 tbsp milk

pepper, to taste

2 tsp dried oregano
2 cups shredded mozzarella
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 13×9 baking dish with non-stick spray.Bring a large pot of water to boil. Cook pasta for 6-7 minutes. Drain. Pasta will be al dente. It will finish cooking in the oven. Place pasta back into pot. You’ll be mixing everything together in here.

In a large skillet brown Italian sausage till done, remove from skillet and drain. Set aside.

In the same pan you cooked the sausage saute together peppers, and red onion. Cook for 3-4 minutes or until vegetables soften. Add garlic and cook for about 1 minute. Return sausage to pan and stir to combine. Let heat up a couple of minutes.

Remove from heat and pour into pot containing the pasta. Add the spaghetti sauce, milk, pepper, and oregano stirring to combine everything.