Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pepperoni pizza pasta bake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pepperoni pizza pasta bake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Pepperoni pizza pasta bake is something that I have loved my entire life.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pepperoni pizza pasta bake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pepperoni pizza pasta bake:
- Make ready 16 oz dry rigatoni pasta
- Prepare 1 can (28 oz) peeled San marzno tomatoes
- Make ready 1 can (28 Oz) tomato puree
- Get Pepperoni
- Get Mozzarella shredded cheese divided
- Make ready Black pepper
- Take Salt
- Prepare Basil
- Make ready Oregon
- Prepare Onion powder
- Make ready Garlic powder or Minced garlic
- Make ready 2 cups chicken stock for making in an instant pot only and one cup of water
- Get For seasoning they are made to taste a pinch of this a dash of that
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. Pour the pasta into a casserole dish and cover with the shredded cheese.
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.
Sprinkle with additional Italian seasoning and place remaining pepperoni slices on top. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Sprinkle remaining mozzarella over pepperoni slices. Select START/STOP to begin; When cooking is complete, serve immediately. Stir in pizza sauce; remove from heat.
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