I cooked the hamberburger with onions and green peppers last night, then drained it and put it in the fridge so all i had to do today was put it in the crockpot. I put a layer of the cooked meat in first and then a layer of the noodles. Then the pepperoni, mushrooms, and black olives. The last layer was the cheese. I did forget the olives and mushrooms on the first layer ,so i just ended up with them on the 2nd and 3rd layer. I had 3 layers total of everything. I wasn't wanting a lot of mushrooms and black olives anyway so it worked out ok. The last pic will show what it looks like without the final layer of cheese on it yet. I'm looking for some more grease from the hamburger even though i drained it best i could. So after a coupla hours or so, and before i put on the last layer of cheese , i'm either gonna dip out the excess grease or soak it up with some bread. After that then the cheese will go on. Gonna let it all cook on low for 5 hours like it says and see if i did ok with it. Here are the ingredients i used.
2 lbs hamburger ..i used what sis brought over but i recommend the highest quality you can get ....even ground chuck.
2 cans of pizza sauce ( not spaghetti sauce)
1 lb of rigatoni noodles ( i have used lasagna noodles before and they work great too)
1 and 1/2 lbs of shredded mozzarelli cheese ( i used some cheddar and jack too coz i was afraid i wasn't gonna have enough.)
1/2 a large onion diced up
1/2 a large green pepper diced up
about 7 ounces of pepperoni slices cut quartered is what i ended up using
2 ounces of black olives
6 ounces of mushrooms
I have made this before maybe a couple of years ago with the lasagna noodles and they were great. I tried using sausage then but it was to greasy i think.
