Sausage and Pepper Casserole

Made with Italian sausage and green bell pepper
this is a good casserole to serve on a cold day.
You can use any small pasta or even white rice.
This tastes like an Italian sausage and pepper
grinder with pasta in place of the bread.

Ingredients:
4 hot Italian sausage links
2 green bell pepper, diced
1 cup uncooked orzo pasta

1 (14 ounce) can low sodium beef stock
1 (8 ounce) can  crushed tomato sauce
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Olive oil for coating bottom of dish

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Coat bottom of a 11x7-inch baking dish.

Cut each sausage link into 1/2"  pieces.

Place sausage in a 12-inch nonstick skillet,

brown sausage over medium heat 10  minutes,

stirring until no longer pink. remove sausage

and place in prepared baking dish then add

in the remaining ingredients except cheese.

Cover baking dish with aluminum foil.

Bake 45 minutes. Uncover and stir well.

Sprinkle top of casserole with shredded cheese.

Bake uncovered about 10 minutes to melt cheese.