Pizza Casserole

Plan Z Phase: This is a Z3 (ZReboot) recipe. This tastes a lot like pizza with no crust. Almost a cross between lasagna and pizza. It’s just a simple, comfort food dish to eat out of a bowl.

Servings: Serves 6 – 8

Ingredients:

  • 1 Tbl of olive oil
  • 4 Italian sausages (Hot or mild). Slit the casings and peel out the sausage meat and cut it into bits.
  • 2 oz of pepperoni cut into matchstick-style pieces. Long and narrow.
  • 1 Tbl of Italian seasoning
  • 15 oz of ricotta cheese
  • 2 tsp of minced garlic
  • 2 handfuls of baby spinach
  • 8 oz of shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 14 oz jar of spaghetti sauce
  • 4 – 6 oz of grated or shredded parmesan cheese

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a sauté pan add the olive oil and the Italian sausage. Brown the sausage on medium until it’s crispy on the outside. Keep breaking it up into bits like you’d see on the top of your pizza while it’s cooking.

While that’s happening you can take out your 9″ x 13″ baking pan and put the spinach on the bottom. It’s popular these days to put greens on top of your pizza so you’ll put them on the bottom for this dish. (If you look closely at the picture you’ll notice the one I made is half-sized.  9″ x 9″. I was making it for 2 people plus leftovers. If you want to do this just cut the ingredient amounts in half.)

The open the ricotta. Make a hole in the middle and put in the garlic and the Italian seasoning. Stir gently to mix it all up. (This just saves you a dirty dish. You can also do it this in a bowl if that will make it easier.)

When the sausage is cooked it’s time for assembly.

Take half of the ricotta mixture and put 1” blobs of it over the spinach. Don’t worry if this is messy. Just blob it around. Then put on half of the sausage and half of the pepperoni. Drizzle on half of the spaghetti sauce and then half of the mozzarella. Repeat. More blobs and all the rest.

Then top the whole thing with the Parmesan.

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. The whole thing should be bubbly. Let rest for about 10 minutes to cool it off a bit before you dig in or you might burn the roof of your mouth.

Enjoy!

Cheers,