Ground Beef and Potato Casserole
Ground Beef and Potato Casserole Recipe
Taste of this dish reminds me of lasagna, with the difference of that it doesn’t include neither noodles nor cheese. It also requires much less time to cook than classic lasagna.
Meat sauce prepared of ground beef or veal (or mix of these) with onions, tomatoes and fresh parsley is juicy and very tasty. Bechamel souffle gives it nice hint in both taste and presentation.
Did I mention that this recipe is great for some special occasion?..
Ingredients:
- 1.5lb of ground beef or veal
- 2 potatoes
- 1 big onion
- 3 roma tomatoes
- 1 cup of milk
- 3 eggs
- Bunch of fresh parsley
- 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 2 tablespoons of oil
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients: you can use 2 tablespoons of tomato paste instead of tomatoes, just dilute it with a cup of water before adding to the meat:
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Warm up a tablespoon of oil in a big frying pan over moderate heat; peel and chop onion, add it to warmed pan and fry until soft and colored, stir occasionally:
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Increase heat to high, add all ground beef, break apart and fry over until meat is not pink anymore:
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While meat is cooking, blanch tomatoes, if you want less juice – remove seeds as well (I didn’t), then chop and add tomatoes to the pan, reduce heat to moderate and cook meat together with tomatoes for 10-15 mins:
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Meanwhile peel potatoes, slice them into not very thin circles; warm up another pan with tablespoon of oil and fry each potato slice from one side only until colored:
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Remove cooked slices from the pan to make space for the rest:
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Add chopped fresh parsley to the pan with meat:
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Mix meat stuffing, salt and season with ground black pepper to taste, mix again and remove pan from the burner:
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Arrange half of all meat and tomatoes mix in even layer in deep baking pan of proper size:
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Then arrange all fried potatoes in an even layer:
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And cover with remaining of meat and vegetable mix:
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Warm up oven to 355F. Put baking pan in and cook for 25-30mins:
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And mean while prepare bechamel sauce and egg souffle for the casserole, start from making bechamel white sauce:
Melt all butter in sauce pan Add all flour Stir all the time Fry until homogeneous Gradually add warmed up milk And stir to make sure there is no knots -
Set prepared sauce aside to cool down; separate egg yolks from egg whites:
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Mix egg yolks into cooled down bechamel sauce one by one:
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Beat up egg whites into strong foam (I used stand mixer) and add them to the sauce pan:
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Carefully mix egg whites into sauce:
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After 25-30mins in the oven, take baking pan out but keep the heat on:
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Pour sauce over meat:
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And even it out:
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Put baking pan back to the oven for 20 mins more, make sure to not open the oven door during this time:
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Then turn heat off, open oven door slightly and keep casserole in the oven for 10-15 mins more then remove pan from the oven:
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Slice casserole into portion pieces and serve for lunch or dinner without side dish:
Ground Beef and Potato Casserole Recipe: Step 23
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I made this tonight and it was out of the world delicious. My soufflé topping dropped as soon as it came out of the oven but it was still one of the most delicious dishes I have ever eaten or made. It is comfort food at its finest. Boy is it a lot of work but I think I used way too many potatoes and thus made it harder than it had to be. I served it with extra béchamel sauce besides that which I put into the soufflé.