Deep Dish Pizza Casserole

Deep Dish Pizza Casserole

Source: Adapted from Cooking Light

Ingredients:
1 lb 95% lean ground beef
15 oz can tomato sauce
Oregano to taste
Onion Powder to taste
Crushed Red Pepper Flakes to taste
Cooking Spray
8 oz mushrooms, sliced or chopped
10 oz can refrigerated pizza crust dough
8 oz shredded reduced fat mozzarella

Directions:
1.    Preheat the oven to 425
2.    Cook meat (seasoned with oregano, onion powder & crushed red pepper flakes to taste) in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until browned, stirring until it crumbles. Add mushrooms and cook until mushrooms are browned a bit as well. Add tomato sauce and cook until heated.
3.    While meat cooks, coat a 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray. Unroll pizza crust dough and press into bottom and halfway up the sides of baking dish. Sprinkle half the cheese over the bottom of the crust. Top with meat mixture.
4.    Bake uncovered in the oven at 425 for 12 minutes. Remove and top with remaining cheese. Put casserole back in the oven for 5 additional minutes or until crust is browned and cheese is melted. Cool 5 minutes before serving.

Yields 6 servings. WW P+: 9 per serving (If you make it 8 servings the P+ value changes to 7 per serving)

**My modifications: I used lean ground turkey instead of beef. I added basil to the tomato sauce. For the seasonings, I used them until I got the flavor I wanted. I didn't use mushrooms. I topped with turkey pepperoni.

Source: http://www.emilybites.com/2011/01/deep-dish-pizza-casserole.html