Quick-Start Homemade

About Quick Start Homemade

Southern Living Quick-Start Homemade gives moms a jumpstart on making dinner after a long day. Using pantry staples and go-to ingredients like pasta, salad greens, bought pizza dough, eggs, rotisserie chicken and other short-cut essentials easily picked-up from the store, it’s now simple to have a homemade dinner on the table every night of the week.

Each nutritious recipe has been triple-tested by the Southern Living test kitchen and Quick-Start Homemade includes great pasta dishes like Skillet Ziti, made in half the time of baked, and Green Bean Pasta Salad with Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette, a 30-minute recipe with an extra tip for preparing the recipe ahead of time and freshening up before serving. The “Pastry & Pizza Dough” chapter lets fresh pizza dough, piecrust dough or puff pastry do most of the work and features inventive pizza recipes perfect for a mid-week meal, as well as savory hand pies and pot pies. In “Rotisserie Chicken,” crowd-pleasing dinners like Chicken Enchiladas and Chicken Pot Pie with Cheddar Biscuits are no-hassle, but with a homemade touch.

The first recipe I made was the Pizza Spaghetti Casserole and it has made its way into my regular recipe rotation. Next time I make it I think I’ll make double and freeze one so that I can just defrost and bake it on a really busy night.

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Pizza Spaghetti Casserole-Southern Living Quick Start Homemade

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes

Servings 6 servings

Author cindy

Ingredients

• 12 oz uncooked spaghetti
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1 lb package mild ground pork sausage
• 2 oz sliced turkey pepperoni
• 26 oz jar tomato-basil pasta sauce
• 1/4 c grated Parmesan cheese
• 8 oz packaged shredded Italian three-cheese blend

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Cook spaghetti with salt according to package directions
• Drain well and place in a lighlty greased 13x9 baking dish
  
• Brown sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat. stirring occasionally, 5 minutes or until meat crumbles and is no longer pink
  
• Drain and set aside in a bowl
• Wipe skillet clean
• Add pepperoni to the skillet and cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, 4 minutes until slightly crisp
  
• (Place pepperoni on a paper towel lined plate to soak up any grease)
• Top spaghetti in baking dish with sausage
  
• Pour sauce over sausage
  
• Arrange half of pepperoni slices evenly over pasta sauce.
  
• Sprinkle evenly with cheeses
  
• Arrange remaining half of pepperoni slices evenly over cheese.
  
• Cover with nonstick or lightly greased aluminum foil
• Bake at 350 for 30 minutes
• Remove foil
• Bake 10 more minutes or until cheese is melted and just begins to brown

Notes

1. I used regular pepperoni instead of turkey pepperoni
2. I felt the casserole was a bit dry for my taste so I heated up some additional sauce and pored it over the top of my serving. Others like it just the way it was.

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