Baked Pizza Pasta

Source: My version of a recipe by Paved with Good Intentions

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 1 box of pasta (we used rigatoni)
• 1 tub of ricotta (optional... we omitted)
• 1 egg
• Italian Seasoning (garlic, oregano, basil, etc) 
• A LOT of tomato sauce (at least 5 cups)
• Pizza toppings (we used Italian seasoned chicken, sausage (which was in the sauce), pepperoni and broccoli)
• 2 1/2 cups Mozzarella (optional)
• 1/2 cup Parmesan (plus some to sprinkle) (optional)  
  

Directions: 

1. Pre-heat oven to 375°.
2. Cook the pasta.
3. While the pasta is cooking, prepare any necessary pizza toppings (broccoli, eggplant, sausage, ground beef, etc).
4. In the words of Paved with Good Intentions, spray the crap out of a 9x13 baking pan. (Because I had to make one with cheese and one without, I used two smaller CorningWare pans.)
5. Mix the entire pan of pasta with one egg, the tub of ricotta and the seasonings of your choice. (I didn't have any ricotta, so I added 2/3 cup of freshly grated Parmesan to the pasta/egg mixture.)
6. Spread 2 cups of sauce in the bottom of the baking pan, being sure to cover the entire bottom.
7. Layer half of the pasta on top of the sauce.
8. The next layer is the pizza toppings layer. Put as many, or as few, pizza toppings as you'd like.
9. On top of the pizza toppings add 2 cups of mozzarella. (I only used about 1/2 cup of mozzarella on the cheese one because it was in a smaller pan.)
10. Pour another 2 cups of sauce on top of the cheese layer.
11. Then repeat (another layer of pasta and another layer of pizza toppings).
12. Top it off with another layer of mozzarella and some sprinkled Parmesan. On the cheese free version, top it off with another layer of sauce. I also put some more pepperoni, just because I loove crunchy pepperoni.
13. Cover with tin foil and bake for 30 minutes. Then uncover and bake for another 15 minutes.