Name: Pizza Hot Dish
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: about 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 1/2 boxes pasta (corkscrew, penne... whatever); 1 lb ground hamburger; 1 can cheddar cheese soup; 2 jars (16 oz) pizza sauce; 1 tbsp brown sugar; 1 bag pepperoni; 8 oz bag mozzarella cheese

Pre-flight checklist

Before you start

Preheat the oven to 375°F
Bring a big pot of water to a boil

Flight plan

Method

Cook the pasta al dente, about 7 minutes, and drain.
While the pasta is cooking, brown the hamburger and drain.
Add the soup, pizza sauce, brown sugar and noodles to the hamburger and mix.
Layer the noodle and hamburger mixture with the pepperoni in a casserole pan.
Top with the cheese and cover with tin foil.
Bake at 375°F for 45 minutes, taking the foil off for the last 15 minutes.

Notes & tips

From the "RE: recipes" email from Mom and Dad (Olson), May 20, 2013.
The email's steps don't say when the pizza sauce and pepperoni go in. Stirring the sauce in with the soup and layering the pepperoni works well. Save a few slices of pepperoni for the top.

Pizza Hot Dish

Before you start

Method

Notes & tips

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