Recipe Alert: Deep-Dish Pizza Casserole

This is one of DH's favorites ... I came across it when I was on WW a few years ago, and he loved it ... he even asks for it sometimes. Its baking in the oven right now



Deep-Dish Pizza Casserole
Recipe By : Cooking Light
6 Points per serving

1 pound ground round
1 15-oz can chunky Italian-style tomato sauce
cooking spray
1 10-oz can refrigerated pizza crust dough
6 1-oz slices part-skim mozzarella cheese -- divided

Cook meat in a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until browned, stirring until it crumbles. Drain, if necessary and return to skillet. Add tomato sauce, and cook until heated. While meat cooks, coat a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Unroll pizza crust dough, and press into bottom and halfway up sides of baking dish. Line bottom of pizza crust with 3 slices mozzarella cheese. Top with meat mixture. Bake, uncovered at 425º for 12 minutes. Top with remaining 3 cheese slices, and bake 5 additional minutes or until crust is browned and cheese melts. Cool 5 minutes before serving.

Servings: 6

NOTES: You can add spinach, red peppers, and mushrooms to this recipe

Nutritional analysis per serving, per recipe: 277 calories; 7.7 g. fat; 1.6 g. fiber; 49 mg. cholesterol; 667 mg. sodium

awesome thanks!

Pizza crust dough? Who wrote this recipe? Pizza dough becomes crust. Am I wrong? Must be the I talian in me. Sounds ok though,

edited to say.......If your gonna eat pizza,you eat it with whole milk cheese, none of this part skim stuff. Besides it doesn't melt right. And I hope you don't buy the rubber Polly O stuff in the store. YUCK!!!!!! It has to be fresh MOOT SA LELLA. Thats how us Italians say it

Sounds tasty to me!!! I'd need more cheese though Thanks!

I didn't write the recipe, I swear!

And I use the full fat cheese .... of course!