Make It Monday- Hamburger Casserole
Meat, soup/sauce/pasta and cheese (I count both cheeses as one ingredient!)
It’s another Make It Monday. Today’s recipe is Hamburger Casserole!
Four ingredients, a crowd pleaser for sure!
As usual, I made some adjustments to the original recipe I found. I don’t like tomato soup… so I replaced with just tomato sauce. Don’t ask. In my brain it’s different. I’m a strange one.
Hamburger Casserole
Ingredients:
- 1- 1 1/2 pounds of Ground Beef (or turkey) I used about 1.25 pounds… I almost feel like it’d be better with a bit more meat.
- 1 pound of pasta (I used shell pasta)
- 2- 15 oz. cans of tomato sauce (or you can use cans of tomato soup)
- Cheese– you can use one type or mix- I used cheddar and mozzarella
How To:
- Pre-heat oven to 375
- Bring water to boil for pasta
- Cook pasta according to package
- While the pasta is cooking, brown your meat
- Add seasonings to meat – whatever you prefer. I used my typical- garlic, onion, paprika and cayenne pepper
- Once the meat is cooked, mix in tomato sauce/soup. I also mixed in some of the cheese here
- Drain the noodles
- I mixed the sauce altogether with the noodles, then spread into a 9 X 13 dish – I did add about half a cup of water here, just to make sure it didn’t dry out too much during baking.
- Add cheese to the top
- Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 375 for 20 minutes
- Remove foil and cook an additional 10 minutes
- You can broil for a few minutes at the end if you want to brown/crisp up the cheese on top
Serve it up!
I served this by itself… but you could always serve with a salad or veggies.
I feel it had a similar taste to lasagna… even though I didn’t use any Italian seasoning. Either way, it was delicious and filling. Pretty sure it’ll please even picky eaters like me!
Check out last week’s Make It Monday recipe too: Stromboli.
“Cody” Blaine Jackson is one half of the Kicks Wake Up Krew on Kicks 99, and also serves as the Digital Program Director for Beasley Media Group in Augusta. She’s a Georgia native but currently resides just across the river in South Carolina. She started in the radio industry as a part-time board operator, and moved up through various roles, including on-air positions and program director for multiple stations. Her passions include fitness and anything to do with animals, as she has two fur babies, her dogs Harley and Waylon. Cody likes to write about pets, fitness and Augusta local events.
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