Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Mexican Casserole

This can be made as directed and placed in two 8x8 pans. Cook one and freeze one (before baking) for later! The kids love the surprise of cornbread (baked under the chili) when we dish this up on their plates.

1 pound ground beef (I use ground turkey)
¼ cup chopped onion
1 clove minced garlic
½ tsp. each cumin and chili powder
1 can stewed tomatoes
1 can Ranch style beans
1 can Rotel tomatoes
1 ½ tsp. salt
1 small can tomato sauce

Cook and stir ground beef, onion and garlic over medium heat. Drain. Add salt, cumin, tomatoes, beans, and all tomato products. Heat to boil, then reduce heat to simmer. Cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes. Heat oven to 400. Spray 9x13 pan with PAM.

Mix:
1 ¼ cups bisquick
¾ cups cornmeal
2/3 cup milk
2 T sugar
2 T shortening
1 egg

Spread into pan and spoon beef mixture over batter. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake uncovered until cheese is melted, about 25 minutes. We enjoy this topped with sour cream and corn on the side.

4 comments:

emily said...

looks really good - but what are Rotel tomotoes???

Taste of Champaign said...

Rotels are diced tomatoes with green chiles in them. Rotel is the brand name. I use them in lots of yummy recipes where you want a little kick.

Taste of Champaign said...

they are canned, found by the other diced tomato products.

erinmalia said...

instead of rotel tomatoes (which i finally found at my local giant), i used del monte's "diced tomatoes with zesty mild green chiles."

and i never could find ranch-style beans, so i used "seasoned pinto beans."

also, i doubled the chili powder since we like things hot here.

Basically it tasted to us like a Mexican chili with cornbread underneath. We liiked it.