Pizza Bake

Feel like pizza for dinner? You should try this!

For the past few months, Macey's grocery store has been including "crock talk" recipes in the sales paper. We tried the lasagna a while back, and today we decided to try the Pizza Bake! YUM! This entree can't decide if it wants to be a pizza or a pasta dish. Haha!


Ingredients:
1.5 lbs. ground beef
15 oz. pizza sauce
12 oz. egg noodles
4 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese
1 med. onion (we just used minced onion)
26 oz. spaghetti sauce
8 oz. shredded cheddar cheese
8 oz. sliced pepperoni (we didn't use the full 8 oz.)
1 green bell pepper

Directions:
Brown meat and saute onion and green pepper in a frying pan. Drain grease and add pizza sauce and spaghetti sauce. Cook noodles according to the package directions. Put layer of noodles, meat mixture, cheese and pepperoni in crock pot. Repeat layer. Cook on HIGH for 30 minutes and then on LOW 3 hours until the cheese melts.



I don't know what size crock pot you need for this recipe, but we had extra noodles and meat mixture that didn't fit in our crock pot... SO, we mixed them together and had little bowls of it (with parmasan cheese sprinkled on top) while we waited for the rest to cook in the crock pot:


We must have a good crock pot because we did it on high for 30 minutes and then on low for only 1 1/2 hours. The cheese was melted and it looked good! Also, the recipe online doesn't have mushrooms listed, but there was mushrooms listed on the recipe that we cut out of the sales paper. We added two 8 oz. cans of mushrooms. You could probably also add olives, sausage, or anything else that you like on a pizza! This was a delicious meal! It's fast and easy too! I'm sure the whole family would love it, especially the more picky eaters. ;)



Delicious!