Beef Casserole
Beef Casserole
The idea for this comes from a good friend in Thailand, and it turned out much better than expected, and the family loved it!
Ingredients
- 3 cups bowtie pasta, or any bite size pasta
- 500 grams ground beef, (1 lb)
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 8 small Shiitake mushrooms, stems removed and sliced
- 1 jar Artisan 3 Cheese Pasta Sauce, Prego, 411 gram jar
- 2-3 cups Cheddar cheese, shredded
- panko breadcrumbs, as needed
- salt and pepper, as desired
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 200 C (400 F). Grease a 9x13 baking dish lightly with butter.
- Cook the pasta in a pot of boiling salted water until just tender. Drain and add pasta to the baking dish. While the pasta is cooking, heat a non stick pan and brown the ground beef, drain and add to the baking dish.
- Add the mushrooms, peas, and cheese pasta sauce to the baking dish.
- Mix together. Season with salt and pepper as desired.
- Spread the mixture out evenly and sprinkle the shredded cheese on the top, use as much cheese as you like.
- Add some panko on top of the cheese.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the casserole is bubbly and the top is golden brown.
- Serve and enjoy.
Notes
The cheese sauce, in Thailand, is available from Lazada if you reside outside of a major city, cost is 178 Baht for a jar, which is not bad, it is a very good sauce. The Cheddar cheese will use 1 200 gram block, about 180 Baht. For 8 servings, this is about $1.36 per serving.
Recipe inspired by good friend, Kurt Hammerschmidt.
Thailand.
Thailand.
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