Pizza Casserole | Cookies and Cups

Meet your new favourite weeknight recipe! This tacky, saucy pizza casserole is fast to make and straightforward to customise along with your favourite pizza toppings. Assemble this casserole the evening earlier than and have dinner on the desk in 20 minutes!

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Why You’ll Love This Pizza Casserole Recipe

This pizza casserole has all of the flavors of an oven-fresh pepperoni pizza, packed right into a tacky, weeknight-friendly casserole. Right here’s why you’ll find it irresistible:

• Layers of taste. This recipe combines fluffy biscuit dough with savory tomato sauce, your favourite pizza toppings, and loads of cheese. It’s melty, gooey pizza bliss in a baking dish!
• Simple. I’ve a number of recipes on the weblog that begin with Bisquick combine, from 7UP biscuits to chocolate chip cookies. Bisquick is the key to the fast and straightforward “pizza dough” on this pizza casserole. Simply add water!
• One pan. Layer up your components in a casserole dish and let your oven do the remaining. It’s a better different to creating a standard pizza from scratch that bakes up in 20 minutes. 
• Make it your individual. Similar to ordering out of your favourite pizza takeout menu, you possibly can customise this pizza casserole with any toppings you’d like. I make mine with pepperoni, however you possibly can simply go all-dressed, Hawaiian, you identify it. See beneath for concepts.

Casserole Elements

I’ll begin you off with some notes on what you’ll want. Scroll right down to the recipe card for a printable components checklist.

• Bisquick – Bisquick is a straightforward shortcut to biscuit dough on this recipe. In fact, you possibly can at all times use refrigerated biscuit dough from the shop, or your favourite do-it-yourself biscuit dough.
• Seasonings – Seasoning the Bisquick dough with garlic powder and Italian seasoning boosts the flavors.
• Pizza Sauce – Select your most well-liked jarred pizza sauce from the shop.
• Toppings – I make a basic pepperoni pizza casserole. Be at liberty to vary issues up with any pizza toppings you’d like!
• Mozzarella Cheese – Shred the cheese straight from the block for the meltiest outcomes. You can too use one other delicate, melty cheese, like Monterey Jack or Cheddar.

Easy methods to Make Pizza Casserole

Comply with this quick step-by-step to assemble and bake the final word pizza casserole. It’s on the desk in below an hour! Scroll to the recipe card for printable directions.

• Put together the dough. First, whisk collectively Bisquick with Italian seasoning and garlic powder, and mix it with water to kind the dough. The dough ought to be tender and never too sticky.

• Assemble the casserole. Drop half of the dough, one spoonful at a time, into the underside of a greased 9×13” baking dish. High this with a drizzle of pizza sauce.

• Layer on the toppings. Subsequent, layer on the pepperoni and mozzarella. Repeat with the remaining components, ending with a final layer of cheese.
• Bake. Bake the casserole at 375ºF for 20-25 minutes, then serve!

Ideas for Success

It doesn’t take a lot for a melty pizza bake to prove successful. Listed below are some last-minute suggestions:

• Repair sticky dough. In case your Bisquick dough is just too sticky, add a number of extra spoonfuls of Bisquick. If it’s too dry, sprinkle in additional water.
• Grease the spoon. Spray the tablespoon you employ to scoop the dough to make it simpler to launch into the baking pan.
• Halve the recipe. For a smaller pizza casserole, halve the components and bake this recipe in an 8×8” baking dish as a substitute.

Extra Pizza Topping Concepts

Layer any of those tasty pizza topping combos between the dough and cheese on this do-it-yourself pizza casserole. Or, combine and match your favourite topping concepts to create your individual.

• Vegetarian – Skip the pepperoni and add bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, and olives.
• Hawaiian – Chopped ham (or leftover baked ham) and diced pineapple.
• Greek – Kalamata olives, cherry tomatoes, spinach, and crumbled feta cheese.
• Mexican – Floor beef, black beans, avocado, and another taco fixings you want. Take a look at my taco pizza recipe for inspiration.
• Buffalo Hen – Toss shredded rooster with melted butter and your most well-liked Buffalo sizzling sauce, substitute the pizza sauce with ranch dressing, and layer it into this casserole. It’s a lazy chef’s model of a Buffalo rooster pizza!
• BBQ – Make a BBQ rooster pizza casserole with juicy crockpot BBQ rooster.

What to Serve With a Pizza Bake

A serving of tacky pizza casserole is a meal by itself. In fact, you possibly can at all times spherical out dinner with some tasty sides. This family-style pull-apart garlic monkey bread is ideal for sharing. Or, begin the meal with contemporary tomato bruschetta. For one thing lighter, serve pizza casserole with a aspect of inexperienced salad drizzled with do-it-yourself ranch dressing.

Can I Put together This Casserole In Advance? 

Sure! Get a head begin and assemble this pizza casserole the day earlier than. Retailer it tightly coated within the fridge till you’re able to bake it. 

Word that the casserole would possibly want an additional couple of minutes of baking time should you’re baking it chilly from the fridge. When you’re searching for one other make-ahead-friendly casserole concept, do this tacky chili mac casserole. 

Storing and Reheating Leftover Casserole

• Refrigerate. Retailer leftover pizza casserole hermetic within the fridge. Reheat servings within the microwave, or the oven at 375ºF till the cheese is melted and the casserole is sizzling all through.
• Freeze. Freeze any leftovers hermetic for as much as 2 months, and defrost them within the fridge earlier than reheating.

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