Pizza Pasta

This pizza pasta bake is loaded with all of your favorite pizza toppings for a quick dinner that your whole family will gobble up.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Servings servings

Calories 627kcal

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta for one minute less than the package directions state.
While the pasta is boiling, add the sausage to a large skillet over medium heat. Cook for 2-3 minutes to break up the sausage.
Dice the green pepper and onion and add to the sausage. Continue cooking until the meat is cooked through. Drain the grease from the sausage.
Cut most of the pepperoni slices into quarters, reserving a few for adding to the top of the pasta.
Add the pepperoni, olives, cream cheese, and pasta sauce to the pan with the sausage and heat over low heat until warmed through and cheese is melted.
When the pasta is done, drain and return to the pan. Stir the sausage mixture into the pasta and stir to coat the pasta.
Add half of the pasta mixture to a 9x13 baking dish and top with half of the mozzarella cheese. Repeat with the remaining pasta and mozzarella.
Sprinkle with the Italian seasoning and place a few pepperoni slices on top.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 25 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the pasta is heated through.
Serve hot.

We used cellentani pasta in these photos, but macaroni, ziti, penne, campanelle, and farfalle all work great as well.

We highly recommend Rao's sauces. They're a bit spendy, but they're our favorite jarred sauce on the market.

Feel free to adjust the pizza 'toppings' as you'd like. We included a list of ideas in the blog post.