Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pepperoni pizza pasta bake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Cook pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water according to the instructions on the packet. Once cooked, drain well and reserve a large mug of the pasta cooking water. Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and place in a large bowl.
Pepperoni pizza pasta bake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Pepperoni pizza pasta bake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pepperoni pizza pasta bake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pepperoni pizza pasta bake:
- Prepare 16 oz dry rigatoni pasta
- Prepare 1 can (28 oz) peeled San marzno tomatoes
- Make ready 1 can (28 Oz) tomato puree
- Prepare Pepperoni
- Get Mozzarella shredded cheese divided
- Get Black pepper
- Take Salt
- Take Basil
- Take Oregon
- Prepare Onion powder
- Get Garlic powder or Minced garlic
- Make ready 2 cups chicken stock for making in an instant pot only and one cup of water
- Prepare For seasoning they are made to taste a pinch of this a dash of that
In your bowl mix pasta, pasta sauce, pizza sauce, and seasoning. Cut half of your pepperoni in small pieces and mix into your pasta, add in ½ cup of mozzarella. Pour out into your casserole dish and pat down evenly. Add in the pasta and gently mix until fully coated.
Instructions to make Pepperoni pizza pasta bake:
- Cook rigatoni’s pasta to box Directions.
- 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 melts.
- 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 melts. 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 water.
- 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.
Pour the pasta into a casserole dish and cover with the shredded cheese. Sprinkle with additional Italian seasoning and place remaining pepperoni slices on top. Arrange pepperoni and olives over top. Any small-shaped pasta and flavoured pasta sauce can be used in this recipe. Sprinkle remaining mozzarella over pepperoni slices.
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