This was a recipe I shared back in 2014 and oh Lord, I forgot how good it was! If you’re craving a deep dish pizza and don’t want to go through the whole process of making that, make this casserole instead.
I made it even better this time by using a packet of Italian Seasoning Mix instead of plain Italian seasoning. Dried Italian seasoning just doesn’t have much flavor to me and the packet seasoning worked really well. If you don’t like it really salty look for a packet of low sodium Italian seasoning mix.
Ingredients for Deep Dish Pizza
Wondering what else you can use instead of this or that? Check this section out.
Ground Beef – Italian sausage or any type of sausage would really make the flavor of this taste even better
Stewed Tomatoes – If chunky style tomatoes aren’t your favorite then you can use marinara sauce or even jarred pizza sauce.
Pizza Toppings – I have only tried this recipe as a meat lovers style pizza. The only other pizza type I can think of that would work well with this would be Taco.
Refrigerated Pizza Dough – Make your own favorite dough recipe if you don’t want to use the canned pizza dough. If you’re low carb use a recipe like Fat Head Dough.
How to Deep Dish Pizza Casserole
Preheat oven to 425°.
Cook meat in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until browned, stirring until it crumbles. Drain, if necessary, and return to skillet. Add tomatoes and seasoning, cook until heated through.
While meat cooks, coat a 13 x 9 inch baking dish with cooking spray. Unroll pizza crust dough, and press into bottom and halfway up sides of the baking dish. Top the pizza crust with meat mixture.
Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 12 minutes. Top with cheese, and then pepperoni, and bake 5 minutes or until crust is browned and cheese melts. Cool 5 minutes before serving.
Serve with a salad mixed field greens and a fat-free or low-fat vinaigrette.
Cut into 8 equal pieces. Serving size: 1 piece.
Other Recipes to Try
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Weight Watcher’s Deep Dish Pizza Casserole
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
- 1 lb lean ground beef 96/4 or higher
- 1 (15 oz) can diced tomatoes, drained
- 1 (.6oz) packet of Italian Seasoning Mix (dry)
- cooking spray (Pam)
- 1 (10oz) can refrigerated pizza dough
- 6 ounces shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 10 – 20 slices of pepperoni
- Parsley flakes for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- Cook meat in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until browned, stirring until it crumbles. Drain, if necessary, and return to skillet. Add tomatoes and seasoning, cook until heated through.
- While meat cooks, coat a 13 x 9 inch baking dish with cooking spray. Unroll pizza crust dough, and press into bottom and halfway up sides of the baking dish. Top the pizza crust with meat mixture.
- Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 12 minutes. Top with cheese, and then pepperoni, and bake 5 minutes or until crust is browned and cheese melts. Cool 5 minutes before serving.
- Serve with a salad mixed field greens and a fat-free or low-fat vinaigrette.
- Cut into 8 equal pieces. Serving size: 1 piece.
Notes
WW Points blue 6, green 6, purple 6 (WW recipe builder)
If using the nutrition info calculator points might be different.
- Category: Easy
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/8th of the pan
- Calories: 295
- Sugar: 2g
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Carbohydrates: 19g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 22g
Keywords: deep dish pizza casserole
Richard says
Hello, I am Richard, owner of https://thekitchenmania.com
thanks for sharing such delicious looking recipe. i am just wondering how did you remember such an old dish.
Jenna says
Thanks for sharing Suzanne!
Suzanne says
Wow! Total hit with my family. Will make again! I served it with a side salad. Perfect amount of food for dinner.
★★★★
Hannah says
Would this freeze ok?
Genella Hudgins says
I do the Deep Dish Pizza Casserole and we love it. I recently substituted 99% fat free turkey for the beef and we actually liked it better than the beef. I use tomato sauce rather than the chunky Italian tomatoes and add some Italian seasoning.
Sarah Allbritton says
I just rejoined weight watchers. I need some sugar free recipes because my husband and I are both insulin dependenr diabetics. I use Splenda for sweetner. I have a 13 yr old daughter that is prediabetic as well.