CHEESY ITALIAN CASSEROLE
Dinner made easy with this delicious Italian Casserole, loaded with cheese and super versatile.
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
his cheesy Italian hamburger casserole makes a wonderful meal for family on a busy weeknight or make it anytime along with a salad for a dish you can throw together and put in the oven and forget it until done. You could cut this recipe in half or double for a large group. If you like Italian food, you will love this dish.
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SWAPS & ADDITIONS
You can switch out the pasta for any you like! If you are not a fan of green peppers or onions, you can simply leave them out. You could use low-fat cream cheese and low-fat sour cream in this recipe. We love it with the mozzarella, but you could easily use an Italian blend too.
OTHER DELICIOUS CASSEROLES
Cheesy Italian Hamburger Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef or you could use Italian sausage
- 2 cups uncooked rotini pasta cooked
- 1 cup chopped green onion or regular onion
- 1 cup chopped green pepper
- 1 (14.5 ounccan diced tomatoes undrained
- 1 (8 ounccan tomato sauce
- 1 (4 ounccan sliced mushrooms drained
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon dried basil or could use fresh
- 1 (8 ouncpackage cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions, drain and set aside. Brown ground beef, onions and green pepper in skillet on top of the stove and drain if needed. Add diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, sliced mushrooms, garlic powder, Italian seasoning and basil to skillet and heat for about 10 minutes.
- Spread pasta in the bottom of a large casserole dish. Cover with hamburger mixture. Combine softened cream cheese and sour cream by mixing together with a spoon and then spread over top of hamburger in casserole. Sprinkle on cheese. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
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I’d had this recipe saved to my Recipe Keeper for awhile and finally made it last night. I finally made it last night for supper. Hubby really enjoyed this. He commented several times how good this was. It’s a keeper recipe per him.
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*Use a 13×9 casserole dish.*
Easy recipe, tasted great, quick to assemble. We only had rigatoni pasta & it worked (Probably should have cut each one into 3rds prior to covering pasta with the hamburger mixture but….) Added more spices, salt, & red pepper flakes to the hamburger mixture. Also added shredded cheese on top of hamburger layer, then added the cream cheese layer, & finally added more cheese on top. YUM!
This is a kid (& big kids) pleasing meal! Thank you for sharing it!
Love the recipe it is as delicious! I will continue to use it in my favorite recipe book. Thanks for all the great recipes!
Everyone in my family loved this! Thank you for sharing!!
So glad it was a hit!
Tastes good and makes good leftovers.
Could I do this in the Instant Pot? And how would I do it, if so??
I have not tried this in the instant pot. Maybe, someone else will see this and advise you, Natasha.
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Thank you so much Cynthia! We are so glad you’re enjoying them. Have a wonderful week 🙂