Our Pizza Pasta Bake smells like pizza, looks like pizza, and—just as you’d expect—tastes like pizza.

Five simple ingredients mix – rigatoni, spaghetti sauce, parmesan cheese, sausage and pepperoni make a delicious casserole.

Close up silver spoon scooping out sauce and cheese covered tubular pasta with sausage nestled in a layer of pepperoni baked on top.

Reader Tammy says: “Great meal that lasted two of us a few days. I substituted turkey meatballs for the sausage to make it a little more heart friendly.”

An Easy 5 Ingredient Casserole

Everyone in our family loves pasta and pizza, so it just makes sense to combine the two into a pizza pasta bake casserole.

Inspired by a combination of our Crockpot Rigatoni and Spaghetti Pepperoni Bake this is another dependable meal to make our family happy.

All of the flavors of pizza mixed into a pasta with Parmesan cheese and spaghetti sauce makes a nice meal idea the whole family can enjoy. We tested this recipe with mozzarella, but all of us actually really enjoy the Parmesan only dynamic with the meat, tomato sauce and generous pieces of rigatoni.

Close up fork with a bite full of pepperoni, parmesan coated pasta and plenty of meaty sauce on a white plate.

If you love pizza as much as we do you may also enjoy our Stomboli, Pizza Spaghetti Casserole, and Pizza on a Stick.

Ingredients Needed

Pasta – rigatoni, penne or a similar tubular shape works well.
Spaghetti Sauce – we like Prego, your favorite brand is fine.
Ground Sausage – Bob Evan’s Italian sausage is our favorite. There are more seasonings included in this blend. A plain sausage will make a more mild flavor and zesty will increase the spice profile.
Parmesan Cheese – grated is easiest to use.
Pepperoni – thinly sliced compliments the other ingredients the best.

Ingredients to make pizza pasta bake are spaghetti sauce, rigatoni pasta, pepperoni, Italian sausage, and parmesan cheese on a wooden counter top.

Make It A Supreme Pizza Casserole

To add more fiber from veggies and give more of a supreme pizza taste you can add up to 1/2 cup of chopped onion and peppers (brown with the meat), a couple tablespoons of olives or up to 1 cup of chopped mushrooms.

How To Make Pizza Pasta Bake

In a skillet brown sausage and drain.
Prepare pasta according to directions on the package.
Preheat oven to 350°F and grease a 3 or 4-quart baking dish.
Mix cooked sausage, pasta and sauce in baking dish.

Cooked and crumbled Italian sausage and spaghetti sauce poured over top of cooked pasta in a silver pot.

Spaghetti sauce coated tender tubular rigatoni pasta with plenty of crumbled Italian sausage mixed in in a white dish on a wooden counter.

Add a layer of parmesan cheese.
Then layer pepperoni.

A thick layer of grated parmesan cheese sprinkled over top of saucy pepperoni topped pizza bake.

Layer of pepperonis spread over top of a layer of Parmesan cheese on a baked pizza pasta in a white casserole dish.

Bake for 20 – 25 minutes until the sauce starts to bubble and casserole is heated through.

Overhead view of a 5 ingredient pizza pasta bake that tastes delicious filled with sausage and pepperoni in a white dish on a red and white plaid napkin.

Store leftovers in the refrigerator. Dish freezes well in airtight containers.

More Great Casserole Recipes:

Spoon scooping a simple oven baked pizza inspired pasta with sauce, cheese, sausage and a layer of pepperoni on top.

5 from 1 vote

Easy Pizza Pasta Bake

Created by Jennifer Osterholt

Servings: servings

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 25

Total Time: 40

Our Pizza Pasta Bake smells like pizza, looks like pizza, and—just as you’d expect—tastes like pizza. Five simple ingredients mix – rigatoni, spaghetti sauce, parmesan cheese, sausage and pepperoni make a delicious casserole.

Ingredients

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350℉.
Brown sausage as directed on the package.
1/2 pound Italian sausage
Prepare pasta according to directions on box.
1/2 pound rigatoni
Mix sausage, pasta and spaghetti sauce in baking dish.
16 ounces spaghetti sauce
Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top.
1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
Add the layer pepperoni on top.
30 slices pepperoni
Bake for 20 – 25 minutes until sauce starts to bubble.

Nutrition

Calories: 388kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 20gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 49mgSodium: 1082mgPotassium: 472mgFiber: 2gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 486IUVitamin C: 6mgCalcium: 221mgIron: 2mg

“Plowing Through Life” is not a dietitian or nutrition professional. Any nutritional information shared is an estimate and can vary greatly depending on specific products are used. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through an online nutritional calculator of your choice.