This recipe for Quick and Easy Pizza Pot Pie was originally published in January, 2015. The photos were updated in August, 2017.
This comforting, kid-friendly Quick and Easy Pizza Pot Pie is the perfect weeknight dinner to please your entire family. Like an upside-down pizza, it’s full of beef, pepperoni, sauce, cheese, and vegetables – all topped with a biscuit crust. It’s a fast, fun twist on a classic favorite!
Is there anything better than a hot casserole for dinner on a cold winter evening? How about a casserole that can be prepped in advance (even the night before!), and that utilizes a couple of convenience items for faster and easier cooking?
After all, even when we’re busy, it’s nice to be able to sit down to dinner as a family. It doesn’t happen every night, but we do our best to come together multiple times each week for a simple meal — and this Pizza Pot Pie makes everyone smile!
I have a few tricks up my sleeve for getting dinner on the table FAST, and this recipe features three of them (making it three times as quick?!). Thanks to refrigerated biscuit dough, a jar of marinara, and some shredded cheese, your Pizza Pot Pie is halfway done! It’s all about the pantry staples, my friends…
After browning the meat and veggies in a skillet, you just stir in a jar of marinara sauce (or your favorite homemade tomato sauce) and a couple of handfuls of mini pepperoni. Top it all with a generous portion of creamy, rich cheese and drop the crust (or biscuits!) on top. That’s it!
At this point, you can either cover it with plastic wrap and keep it in the refrigerator until you’re ready to bake it, or just go ahead and stick it right in the oven. It will be hot, golden, and ready to devour in about 25 minutes!
Easy Pizza Pot Pie
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 1 finely diced red bell pepper
- ½ cup finely diced onion I like to use frozen diced onion so that I don't have to chop it!
- 1 24 ounce jar marinara sauce
- ½ cup mini pepperoni I just use mini pepperoni so that I don't even have to chop them, but regular diced pepperoni works fine too!
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 2 6 ounce cans refrigerated miniature biscuits (such as Pillsbury Grands! Juniors) OR 1 (16 ounce) can refrigerated buttermilk biscuits*
Instructions
- Brown ground beef, pepper, and onion in a large skillet over medium-high heat until no longer pink. Drain.
- Add marinara and pepperoni to the skillet; stir to combine. Pour into 9-inch x 13-inch baking dish. Top with shredded cheese.
- Separate the dough into 10 mini biscuits. Place biscuits evenly on top of the cheese.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes, or until biscuits are golden brown and cooked through. Check on the casserole about halfway through the baking time. If the biscuits start to get too brown before they are completely cooked through, just cover the casserole with foil and continue to bake (covered) until done.
Recipe Notes
*I like to use the mini biscuits because they cook faster, and that way you don't have biscuits that get too dark on top but are still raw in the center when the baking time is done. If you use the larger biscuits, just be sure to cover the casserole with foil about halfway through baking so that the biscuits don't get burned on top. You might also need to add some extra cooking time to make sure that the larger biscuits are cooked through.
Cooking Just for Two? You can cut this recipe in half! Just use 1/2 lb. of beef, 1 can of mini biscuits, and cut all of the other ingredients in half as well. Bake the casserole in an 8-inch square baking pan. The cooking instructions remain the same.
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Blair, I’m pretty sure this pizza pot pie is speaking my love language! What a great (and easy) meal. Thanks for sharing on The Makers!
Thanks, Amy!!! 🙂
Yum! I think my little one might eat this! 🙂
Awesome!!!
We love cheese on everything especially cheesy enchiladas!
This pizza pot pie sounds totally delicious!
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Mmmm…I can never get enough of pizza, and your dish just gives me another way to sneak it into the weekly menu! 🙂 100% delicious!!
That is a great looking platter, my kitchen just happens to be blue! I love cheese, no doubt about it, all varieties. I make a lot of pizza but my absolute favorite way to enjoy cheese is homemade Mac & Cheese. A smoked Gouda, Le Gruyere and aged Cheddar are my go-to cheeses. I checked out Crystal Farms recipes and the Classic Creamy Cheesecake snagged my eye pretty quickly.
Oh, man! You’ve made me soooo hungry! This looks delicious! Pinning to Pinterest. Visiting from Freedom Fridays.
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I like to put cheese on anything and everything! [email protected]
I love using biscuits to make a simple and easy pot pie topper. Using pizza flavors is such an awesome idea too. Thanks for sharing!
I like to enjoy cheddar cheese shredded over my fresh stemmed broccoli. So yummy.
There aren’t very many ways that I don’t enjoy cheese, but one of my favorites is a simple ham and swiss on rye…toasted of course. A good baby swiss is my all-time favorite. Great recipe!
This looks like a really fun meal! Yummy! I like to eat cheese on pretty much anything but my favorite is with apples for a snack!
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grilled cheese is the best!
Oh, my! This is exactly how my boyfriend likes his cheese: with something tomato-y and with ‘sop’ (or bread) to soak up all the gooey goodness.
Well this is a different way to make a pot pie 🙂 I love how you make meals so quick and easy.
Thanks, Erlene! Quick and easy is the only way I get food on the table! 🙂
Pizza pot pie?!?!?! You speak my language! My family would love this!
Thanks, Heather!
I love cheese and use it any way I can. When cooking with it, I usually end up nibbling some, too. I can’t wait to try this recipe. I know we will love it. But right now, what I am truly craving is a gooey, old fashioned grilled cheese sandwich. <3
Thanks for stopping by, Orea!
Going to the store right after school! Gotta try this.
I hope that you enjoyed it, Denise! 🙂 P.S. If you have any left-over filling, it’s great inside a sandwich roll (kind of like a pizza sloppy joe!)
I’m making it right now, it is almost ready to come out of the oven. My hubby wants to know “What smells so good”
That’s awesome, Karlene! I hope that it tasted as good as it smelled! 🙂
ohh this is so clever and FUN! I bet i could use my paleo muffins and make it GF. you’ve got my brain churning now! haha
Lindsay! That’s such a great idea — you totally have to re-do this and make it GF!! 🙂
Looking forward to this yummy concoction. I will mention that I love cheese in grilled cheese or in a bread or cracker dip.
Thanks, Lynn! I hope that you enjoy it!! Cheese is the best addition to just about any recipe, right?! 🙂
If I could afford cheese this is the way I have eaten it in the past before I retired. I sit at the table with the cheese eat all day long cheese with anything, mostly plain and with bottle of mineral oil take 2 T when I am through. The blue dish is really pretty and I would like to win.
Thanks for stopping by, Pattiejune!
Pizza pot pie?! How fun is this! What a great meal, Blair! I love pizza anything, and so does my husband, so I know we would devour this in no time!
Thank you, Gayle! Yep — if you’re a pizza lover, then this is a guaranteed winner! 🙂
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Welcome, Christina! So glad to have you here!
This pizza pot pie is something my grandkids would love. You could probably exchange the biscuits for refrigerated store bought pizza dough you just roll out over the filling and bake same way.
Hey, Debi! You’re right — I bet the pizza dough on top would work well, too! Hope your grandkids love it!