Crustless Pizza Bowls is a tasty meal of pasta, sauce, pizza toppings, and mozzarella cheese all in one bowl. Enjoy a hearty and delicious pizza bowl with no crust for dinner.
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Homemade Pizza Bowls
Are you always on the lookout for easy meals to prepare that your whole family can enjoy participating in? If so, this homemade pizza bowls recipe is for you.
Everyone who loves pizza, and who doesn’t, will enjoy these pizza bowls made with pasta, tomato sauce, your favorite pizza toppings, and mozzarella cheese. It’s a clever one-dish meal that is simple yet satisfying. All the delicious saucy Italian tastes of pizza are simply tossed into a bowl and baked.
Pizza bowls don’t involve a crust, making them an easy way to satisfy your cravings for pizza without going through all the trouble of making a pie.
Why You Should Try This Pizza Bowls Recipe
This recipe for pizza bowls gives you the perfect family night meal. You can involve your kids to help put these pizza pasta bowls together. It’s fun to create a whole bar of pizza toppings and let everyone assemble their dinner how they want. Your kids can get creative with their individual bowls.
Making a whole pizza can be challenging, especially on a weeknight when you are tired from a working day or it’s a super busy school night. However, it takes no time at all to boil some pasta.
So why not try these easy pepperoni pizza bowls? This pizza bowls recipe is perfect when you’re craving pizza but want to avoid dealing with leftovers.
Homemade Pizza Bowls Recipe Ingredients
This recipe is for Italian sausage and pepperoni pizza bowls. Mild or spicy Italian sausage – your choice. Here are the ingredients:
- Pasta
- Tomato pasta sauce or marinara sauce
Toppings
- Pepperoni
- Italian sausage
- White onion
- Bell pepper
- Mushrooms
- Mozzarella cheese
What Kind of Pasta Is Best for This Pizza Pasta Recipe?
This fun pasta bowls recipe can be made with any short, sturdy noodle, such as manicotti, penne, or rigatoni. These pasta shapes are easier and less messy to eat, especially if you have kids.
- Check out this ultimate guide to pasta shapes and how to best use them.
How to Make This Recipe for Pizza Bowls
What could be an easier dinner to make than this mash-up of pasta and pizza? Here’s what you do:
- Place the cooked pasta in small oven-safe bowls or large ramekins.
- Top with warmed sauce.
- Add pizza toppings and cheese on top.
- Brown under the broiler.
Recipe Variations
There are many ways you can customize this pizza bowl recipe:
- Pizza Bowl Toppings: Go for your favorites, as long those that need cooking are pre-cooked. As well as the toppings in this pizza pasta bowls recipe, you could include veggies like green pepper, onion, black olives, and/or fresh basil for example.
- Meat Lovers Pizza Bowls: Consider using all sausage for sausage pizza bowls. Other toppings might include salami, bacon, or meatballs.
- Chicken Alfredo Pizza Bowl: Use alfredo sauce instead of a tomato-based one and juicy cooked chicken instead of pepperoni and Italian sausage. Consider including some cooked spinach in your toppings and a sprinkling of parmesan cheese on top.
- Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza Bowls: Use cooked ground beef, crumbled crispy bacon, and plenty of cheddar cheese or a cheese blend.
- Hawaiian Pizza Bowls: Use cubes of salty ham and sweet pineapple tidbits.
- Cheesy Pizza Bowls: Add another cheese to the mozzarella, or substitute your favorite blend of cheeses such as Cheddar, Colby, Jack, provolone, or parmesan.
- Gluten-Free Pizza Bowls: Substitute gluten-free pasta for regular pasta.
- Low-Carb Pizza Bowls: Substitute spaghetti squash for the pasta. See this video on how to substitute pasta with squash.
- Keto Pizza Bowls: Make keto friendly pizza bowls by choosing a sugar-free tomato pizza sauce and using spaghetti squash or another keto-friendly pasta substitute.
What to Serve With Your Pizza Pasta Bowls
Make a pizza dip by enjoying your bowls with a few slices of crusty bread, garlic bread, or crostini. And a green salad rounds out your meal nicely.
How to Store Leftovers
A pizza bowl is a single-serve dish, so you should have little in the way of leftovers. If you do have any, store them in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days.
To reheat, place in the microwave for 1 minute or broil on high for 2 to 3 minutes.
Favorite Pasta Dinners
- Baked Ziti
- Cavatini
- Garlic Butter Pasta
- Instant Pot Pasta
- New Orleans Pasta
- Pasta Alla Vodka Sauce
- Pasta con Broccoli
- Stuffed Manicotti with Meat
- Cheese Stuffed Shells
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The video in this recipe was sponsored by Prego Pasta Sauce.
Pizza Bowls
Ingredients
- 16 ounces pasta prepared according to package directions
- 1 jar Prego Pasta Sauce
Pizza Topping Options
- 1/2 cup chopped white onion
- 1/2 cup chopped bell pepper
- 1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
- 2 cups cooked Italian sausage
- 6 ounces pepperoni
- 8 ounces mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Heat the pasta sauce in a pot over medium heat until it is warmed through.
- Divide the cooked pasta among small oven-proof bowls and top with Prego Pasta Sauce and your favorite pizza toppings. Add the cheese last.
- Place the bowls under the broiler for about 5 to 7 minutes or until the cheese begins to brown.
Pamela Allison
I discovered these pizza bowls at our local “Marcos Oizza” some time ago. I have been making them at home ever since, and varying the recipe to suit everyones’ tastes. I MUCH prefer these to regular pizza with crusts. I do add herbs (fresh if I have them—I grow them in my Aero Garden out of season) in a grinder if I don’t have any fresh. Fresh makes ALL the diffrence!!! Use sauce of choice. I like Classico Sausage and Green Pepper, with a few Tbsp. of red wine. More onions than Stephanie shows in the video, and sometimes I vary the cheese. I ALWAYS use freshly grated cheese, unless I am desperate. A few drops of hot sauce to taste if you like it. Add it to the sauce if you use it. I do’t care for mushrooms, so I leave them out and substitute pineapple (I know, my husband doesn’t like it either! But I think it is good with the seet Italian sausage). If I use pepproni, I buy fresh if available, and cut the rounds into fourths. ENJOY!!
Wanda Sykes
I made some of these for the first week of school, my kids loved them.
Ronaldo
I made this recipe here at home and my family loved it. I’m loving your blog.
seamisty
This looks really good and simple to make. Thanks!
Leana Jay
This is a quick delciious meal i would enjoy. i love cheese and pepperoni, my son would love this too. thank you for sharing this recipe
Cynthia
What a great idea! So easy and quick to make. I can see this recipe being one that would be used on those super busy school nights.
Jessica
I want to get a new set of oven safe bowls that will be perfect for this dish! Pasta is my favorite comfort food and the temperatures are getting cooler, fall is on it’s way…which is complete comfort food season for me! lol
Lois Alter Mark
What a great idea! They look so easy to make, and I bet they’re delicious!
Brianne
Yes I am always looking for meals where the kids can join me. And this would be totally up their ally, especially since they can they get creative with the individual bowls.
Maria @ closetohome
I love this idea for the kids to make after school or sports. What a clever one dish meal that is simple yet satisfying;
Heather Lawrence
Now this is perfect for when your craving pizza but don’t want to be stuck with leftovers (Which is an actual thing believe it or not!!). Drooling here!!
max
Wow delicious, I was looking for this everywhere.Already got print of this page. Thanks
Robert
Thank you for your kind sharing of these many recipes. We really appreciate your efforts to help us even afford to make Restaurant Dishes at home
Stephanie
Thank you very much!