Spaghetti Crust Sausage Pizza Casserole
"Pepperoni or salami works well for this also, just layer the pepperoni or salami *over* the pasta sauce instead of under it, or use ground beef in place of the sausage meat. All spice amounts can be adjusted to taste."
photo by CoffeeB
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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6-8
ingredients
- 1 lb uncooked thin spaghetti
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3⁄4 lb cooked Italian sausage, casings removed (cook the sausage along with 1 medium chopped onion, can use more or less sausages)
- 1 cup milk
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 2 teaspoons garlic salt
- black pepper
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided (or to taste)
- 1⁄3 - 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese (or to taste)
- 2 1⁄2 - 3 cups prepared favorite spaghetti sauce (or to taste)
directions
- Set oven to 375 degrees.
- Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
- Break the uncooked spaghetti in thirds.
- Cook the spaghetti in a large pot of boiling salted water until JUST al dente; strain then toss with 2 tablespoons butter.
- Spread warm pasta into the bottom of the baking dish.
- In a bowl combine milk, eggs, garlic salt and black pepper until well combined; pour over the spaghetti.
- Sprinkle 1-1/2 cups (or to taste) mozzarella cheese over the milk mixture.
- Sprinkle about 1/3 to 1/2 cup parmesan cheese on top of the mozzarella cheese.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven then drizzle with the spaghetti sauce.
- Sprinkle the cooked sausage meat over the sauce; return to oven for about 15 minutes or until thoroughly heated through.
- Sprinkle with about 1-1/2 cups mozzarella cheese and return to oven for 3-4 minutes or until melted.
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Reviews
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I made this dish because I wanted to clean up "odds and sods" and also it was an easy meal for when we hosted the guys to come over to watch the Stanley Cup. I made this up the day before, so I was kinda worried how the milk/egg mixture would work out. I don't have a 13 x 9 casserole dish, so I used 2 - 8 x 8. Here are my changes: I would cut the spaghetti down to 3/4 lb and I used 3/4 tsp salt and 1 tsp garlic powder. I served this with a salad and a side dish of Carla's recipe # 6442 and one of my casserole dish could have feed 6 - 8 people. I sent the other casserole dish to the office for lunch and hopefully the boys will finish it off. (wasn't sure if this could freeze??) Next time, I would cut the recipe in half. Overall, I got high praise from my DH and DD and that was what counted the most. Kudos, Kitten on an excellent recipe -
My DS's were all over this spaghetti casserole Kitty. They love spaghetti anyway and so this was a nice change-up. Followed your directions as written but ran out of mozzarella for the last little bit of time in the oven. Shredded some pepperjack and a bit of cheddar. Fabulous!!!. Glad I tagged and made for 123Hitwonders 08'
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I made this recipe using quinoa spaghetti, gluten-free. Just as I was pulling it out of the oven---unexpected out of town guests arrived. Served it with just lettuce with Italian vinaigrette. Continued my fame as a great cook! Thank you! Spoiled DH only gave it two stars. He said it did not taste like lazagna. I said it was not supposed to be lazagna nor to taste like lazagna. This from a man who likes Top Raman, what's wrong with him? The rest of us really enjoyed it. I ate way over my diabetic carb limit, had a hard time to stop eating it. Thus had to add two more miles to my daily walk. I thought, while cooking this dish that, if I had even stopped before the sauce and meat was added that it looked like a pretty good dish just done that far. Will have to try it that way some time. I used bulk mild Italian sausage. Next time I will try it with pepproni. What a nice dish! -
If you want your kids to clean their plates, make this! Spaghetti and pizza combined into one...does it get any better? I made this exactly as written, except I was a little short on cheese. This was OUTSTANDING! A sure 5 stars from all 4 of us! I've never had spaghetti with eggs to be firm like a crust. I will absolutley have it again. Kitten, your recipes are ALL winners!
