Easy Weight Watchers Pepperoni Pizza Casserole is my new favorite comfort food this month. It’s a combination of macaroni and cheese and pizza! Do I need to say more?
Not only is this casserole easy and delicious, but it’s also Weight Watchers and family-friendly.
Check out these Weight Watchers Ground Turkey Recipes to make meal planning easier.
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Be sure to recalculate your points for recipes based on the actual ingredients you use. Using the nutrition facts in a recipe will give you false information. Always calculate on the Weight Watchers app or site to be sure.
How many WW Points are in this delicious pizza casserole recipe?
Each Weight Watchers Pepperoni Pizza Casserole should be divided into 12 equal servings.
Courtesy WW Points
- Be sure to calculate the points value of the foods and recipes you eat in the app.
- Always add ingredients and serving sizes and don’t rely on the nutrition facts in the recipe.
- Accuracy will come from the information you input on the app.
Tips for lowering points:
The great thing about this recipe is that you can customize it for whatever preferences your family has including dietary restrictions. Make sure you create the recipe on ww.com if you change anything but feel free to play with the veggies since most are zero points on multiple plans!
If you like onions, green peppers, jalapeños, or even mushrooms on your pizza they make a great addition to the recipe!
Using canned tomato sauce, lean ground turkey (or chicken) and no-fat cheese helps make this a delicious low-point casserole.
Whole wheat or low-carb noodles help keep points lower.
The serving size is one cup.
Serve with a low-point side or green salad for a filling low-point dinner.
What you’ll need to make this delicious family-friendly casserole:
It’s a winner all the way around! Grab your favorite plate, and a big spoon, and dig in! You will find links to the products we used in the recipe. We earn a commission if you purchase through our links.
You probably have many of these casserole ingredients on hand. Lean ground turkey 97/3 is best. Onion, garlic, olive oil, zero-point tomato sauce, and Hunts is the best. You will add a few simple seasonings too.
Here are some kitchen essentials that I like to have on hand when making recipes like this for meal prep:
Making healthy meals is a breeze with these kitchen essentials. Keeping things like this on hand makes my life so much easier in the kitchen.
Some things that are great to have on hand when prepping meals like this is a cutting board, sharp knives, and storage containers.
You can also benefit from a good skillet, a kitchen scale, and measuring cups!
Pizza Casserole Topping Ideas
For this recipe, we used low-carb rotini pasta, low-fat mozzarella, and fat-free mozzarella, too.
I really like to add spinach, broccoli, and mushrooms to pizza. Thankfully, those are all zero points!!
Try adding hot peppers, spices, and even pickled vegetables can be a great compliment to your pepperoni pizza casserole.
If you are looking for another easy recipe that the whole family will love to be sure to try this Weight Watchers Chicken Pot Pie recipe.
Easy Weight Watchers Pizza Casserole Instructions:
This is a very easy recipe to put together. Likely once you make a single batch you’ll come back to this recipe time and time again because it is just so simple to make!
The best part is that after you make this simple recipe you get to see the smiles all around the dinner table. Everyone loves this dinner recipe and devours it without hesitation. It’s a family favorite in our house, I’ll bet it will be a fast favorite in yours as well.
Preheat oven to 350
Cook pasta according to package and drain.
Heat olive oil over medium heat and saute ground turkey, onion, and garlic, in a large skillet until meat is cooked.
Drain.
Spray a 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray.
In a medium bowl mix cooked pasta, meat mixture, sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and Italian seasoning.
Mix well.
Spread the pasta mixture evenly in the pan.
top with remaining cheese, pepperoni, and olives.
Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes
Uncover and bake for an additional 10 minutes until heated through.
Cut into 12 equal servings.
Enjoy!
Looking for more ways to use lean ground turkey in all kinds of Weight Watchers recipes?
You’ll find recipes like these there which all use ground turkey to make incredible meals that the whole family will devour!
- Weight Watchers Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Skillet
- Weight Watchers Ground Turkey Goulash
- Weight Watchers Turkey Burritos
- Weight Watcher Turkey Burgers
- Weight Watchers Turkey Enchiladas
If you are not on Weight Watchers you can always make whatever changes you like to the ingredients and toppings. This recipe is very forgiving and you can substitute gluten free or dairy free options where you need to as well!
Only those of you on myWW will need to make sure to pay attention to any changes you make. Using different kinds of cheese or pasta will change the point values so be sure to recalculate if you make changes!
Printable Recipe For A Pizza Casserole:
Here’s the printable version of this easy-to-make pepperoni pizza casserole. It doesn’t matter if you are on Weight Watchers or not, the whole family will devour this dinner recipe without complaint.
It’s indulgent, easy to make, and lightened up with wholesome ingredients so that everyone can enjoy a new comfort food classic.
Weight Watchers Pepperoni Pizza Casserole
Yield: 12
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Updated 11/17/21 for new program:
Ingredients
- 1 lb lean ground turkey breast 99% lean
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 30 oz hunts tomato sauce or 2 cans 15 oz tomatoes with no added sugar
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 12 ounces rotini pasta low carb
- 1 cup shredded reduced-fat mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup no-fat mozzarella cheese
- 32 slices of turkey pepperoni, divided (approx 2 oz)
- 2 TBSP sliced black olives
- top with additional zero point vegetables if you desire
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Cook pasta according to package and drain.
- Heat olive oil over medium heat and saute ground turkey, onion, garlic, in a large skillet until meat is cooked.
- Drain.
- Spray a 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl mix cooked pasta, meat mixture, sauce, 1 cup of cheese, 16 pepperoni and Italian seasoning.
- Mix well.
- Spread pasta mixture evenly in pan.
- top with remaining cheese, pepperoni, and olives.
- Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes
- Uncover and bake an additional 10 minutes until heated through.
- Cut into 12 equal servings.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Using canned tomato sauce, lean ground turkey (or chicken) and no fat cheese help make this a delicious low point casserole. If you use 99% fat-free turkey you can lower the points. The serving size is 1 cup. Serve with a low point side or green salad for a filling low point dinner.
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Nutrition Information
Yield 12Serving Size 1 cup
Amount Per ServingCalories 197Total Fat 10gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 61mgSodium 264mgCarbohydrates 8gNet Carbohydrates 0gFiber 1gSugar 1gSugar Alcohols 0gProtein 18g
As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts, WW points and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
This recipe is not endorsed by Weight Watchers. Points were calculated with the WW app using ingredients as a courtesy. Please do your own calculations for ensured accuracy. Calculating points using nutrition info in this post is not recommended.
