Mexican Beef Casserole

Mexican beef casserole is a dish from Mexican cuisine prepared by combining ground beef with ingredients like onions, tomatoes, and seasonings, and baking the dish in oven after sprinkling cheese on top. Other ingredients like beans, noodles, and macaroni can also be included to enhance the flavor and savor of the dish. Tortilla chips are often arranged as the bottom most layer of the casserole and all the other ingredients are arranged on top of the chips. Cheese is often sprinkled on top of the casserole before baking it in oven.   

Mexican Beef Casserole Preparation Overview

The easiest Mexican beef casserole recipe suggests using lean ground beef, salsa, chili beans, crushed tortilla chips, sour cream, black olives, tomatoes, green onions, and cheddar cheese as the ingredients. Beef is cooked in a skillet, before adding salsa and beans. Thereafter, crushed tortilla chips, beef mixture, sour cream, green onions, tomatoes, and olives are arranged in a greased baking dish, and the casserole is baked after sprinkling cheddar cheese on top.   

Mexican Beef Casserole Recipe Variations

A few popular variations of Mexican beef casserole have been discussed hereunder:

• Chicken soup and mushroom soup based casserole- onions, cream of chicken soup, and cream of mushroom soup are added to sautéed beef in a skillet, with half of this mix placed in a baking dish lined with tortilla chips. Green chilies and grated cheddar cheese are arranged on top of beef mixture, and all the layers are repeated again. The casserole is then baked in oven and served hot.

• Macaroni and beef based Mexican casserole- the recipe suggests combining together cooked beef mixture (ground beef, onions, garlic, green peppers), boiled macaroni, corn, tomatoes, chili powder, olives, salt, black pepper, and oregano, and transferring the mix in a casserole saucier. The casserole is then baked in oven after sprinkling cheese and corn chips on top. The casserole is often served with sour cream.   

• Flour and egg noodles based Mexican beef casserole- egg noodles are cooked and then combined with flour, tomatoes, seasonings, and sautéed mix of ground beef, chopped green peppers, and onions. The entire mix is placed in a casserole saucier, and baked after sprinkling shredded cheese on top.

Mexican Beef Casserole Nutrition Facts

Mexican beef casserole is enriched with the goodness of beef, with 308 g of beef providing around 447 calories, obtained from 13 g of fat, 1069 mg of cholesterol, 176 mg of sodium, and 77 g of protein.