Meet your new favourite weeknight recipe! This tacky, saucy pizza casserole is fast to make and simple to customise together 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 adore it:
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 couple 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 simple “pizza dough” on this pizza casserole. Simply add water!
One pan. Layer up your substances in a casserole dish and let your oven do the remaining. It’s a better various to creating a standard pizza from scratch that bakes up in 20 minutes.
Make it your individual. Identical 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 under for concepts.
Casserole Components
I’ll begin you off with some notes on what you’ll want. Scroll all the way down to the recipe card for a printable substances record.
Bisquick – Bisquick is a straightforward shortcut to biscuit dough on this recipe. After all, you possibly can at all times use refrigerated biscuit dough from the shop, or your favourite selfmade biscuit dough.
Seasonings – Seasoning the Bisquick dough with garlic powder and Italian seasoning boosts the flavors.
Pizza Sauce – Select your most popular jarred pizza sauce from the shop.
Toppings – I make a traditional 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 may as well use one other delicate, melty cheese, like Monterey Jack or Cheddar.
Make Pizza Casserole
Observe this quick step-by-step to assemble and bake the final word pizza casserole. It’s on the desk in beneath an hour! Scroll to the recipe card for printable directions.
Mix the Bisquick and seasonings, and add water.Combine to kind the dough.
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 needs to be tender and never too sticky.
Add the dough to a baking dish.Drizzle with pizza sauce.
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 with pepperoni and mozzarella.Repeat with the remaining substances, and bake!
Layer on the toppings. Subsequent, layer on the pepperoni and mozzarella. Repeat with the remaining substances, 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 end up successful. Listed here are some last-minute ideas:
Repair sticky dough. In case your Bisquick dough is simply too sticky, add a couple 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 substances 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 selfmade 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.
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 chicken with melted butter and your most popular Buffalo scorching sauce, change the pizza sauce with ranch dressing, and layer it into this casserole. It’s a lazy chef’s model of a Buffalo chicken pizza!
A serving of tacky pizza casserole is a meal by itself. After all, 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 recent tomato bruschetta. For one thing lighter, serve pizza casserole with a facet of inexperienced salad drizzled with homemade 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 lined within the fridge till you’re able to bake it.
Notice that the casserole may want an additional jiffy of baking time in case you’re baking it chilly from the fridge. For those who’re in search of one other make-ahead-friendly casserole concept, do that cheesy 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 scorching all through.
Freeze. Freeze any leftovers hermetic for as much as 2 months, and defrost them within the fridge earlier than reheating.
Tacky pizza casserole is one of the best weeknight dinner! This recipe combines layers of fluffy biscuit dough with savory tomato sauce, your favourite pizza toppings, and many melty cheese.
3 1/3 cups Bisquick
1 cup water
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 1/2 teaspoons Italian Seasoning
1 (14-15 ounce) jar pizza sauce
6 ounces sliced pepperoni
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Preheat oven to 375°F. Spray a 9×13 baking dish evenly with cooking spray, put aside.
In a medium bowl mix Bisquick, garlic powder and Italian seasonings. Add water and stir till a tender dough types. (If dough is simply too sticky, sprinkle a couple of tablespoons extra Bisquick, if it feels dry add a tablespoon of water).
Divide dough in half and drop dough by tablespoon sized parts all around the backside of the ready pan. Pan won’t be lined by the dough.
Drizzle 1 cup of the pizza sauce on prime of the dough. Then layer half of the pepperoni on prime of sauce.
Sprinkle half of the mozzarella cheese all around the pepperoni. Repeat this complete course of once more with remaining substances.
Bake 20-25 minutes. Minimize into squares and serve heat.
