Easy Ground Beef Casseroles

Updated: January 13, 2017
Ground beef casseroles are always a good choice for busy weeknight family meals. They’re easy, they’re quick and they won’t break the budget.
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Speedy Shepherd's Pie

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Speedy Shepherd's Pie Recipe

Making the most of supermarket convenience items gets this family favorite on the table in a flash. Precut matchstick carrots are easier to chop into small pieces quickly, and using prepared mashed potatoes for the topping is a good trick for when you don't have leftover mashed potatoes on hand.

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Classic Lasagna with Meat Sauce

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Classic Lasagna with Meat Sauce Recipe

This simple lasagna is perfect for when you're short on time, but craving a comforting meal. Ready in just over an hour, it requires only 50 minutes of cooking in the oven.

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Ground Beef and Pasta Casserole

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Ground Beef and Pasta Casserole Recipe
This casserole is perfect for your busy week when getting in and out of the kitchen needs to be a snap. With very simple prep work, it will become a weeknight staple in your household.
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Baked Italian-Style Cauliflower

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Baked Italian-Style Cauliflower Recipe

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Tomato 'n' Beef Casserole With Polenta Crust

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Tomato 'n' Beef Casserole With Polenta Crust Recipe

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Beef-and-Pasta Casserole

Beef-and-Pasta Casserole Recipe
This family-favorite ground beef casserole features cooked rotini pasta combined with canned tomatoes, breadcrumbs, Cheddar cheese and Parmesan and is perfect for a busy weeknight.
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Beef, Cheese, and Noodle Bake

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Beef, Cheese, and Noodle Bake Recipe
Turn mac and cheese into a heartier main dish with the addition of ground beef, onion, carrot, and tomato sauce. Even your pickiest eaters will love this dish.

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Beef Lombardi

Beef Lombardi Recipe
While it may sound like a fancy dish, Beef Lombardi is simply a mixture of ground beef and chopped tomatoes that’s spooned over a mixture of creamy noodles, topped with cheese, and baked. It’s a great make-ahead dish because you can assemble the casserole and freeze it for up to one month.

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Shepherd’s Pie

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Shepherd’s Pie Recipe
This potato-topped shepherd’s pie gets extra flavor from the cheese and carrots that are added to the mashed potato crust. And you can take a shortcut with the crust because the recipe calls for frozen mashed potatoes.
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Pastel de Choclo (Beef and Corn Shepherd's Pie)

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Pastel de Choclo (Beef and Corn Shepherd's Pie) Recipe
In a traditional shepherd’s pie, the ground lamb or beef mixture is topped with a mixture of mashed potatoes, but in this version, the topping is a pureed corn crust and the beef mixture is flavored with onion, garlic, olives and raisins.

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Mexican Lasagna

Mexican Lasagna Recipe
Let your lasagna go Mexican by layering ground beef and sausage with corn tortillas, tomatoes, green chiles, enchilada sauce, and cheese.

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Vanessa's Make-Ahead Beefy Lasagna

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Vanessa's Make-Ahead Beefy Lasagna Recipe
A container of refrigerated pesto adds distinctive flavor to this basic beef-and-cheese lasagna, and the unbaked lasagna can be frozen for up to three months.
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Nacho Grande Casserole

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Nacho Grande Casserole Recipe
instead of serving a spicy ground beef nacho mixture on a platter over tortilla chips, bake it in a casserole and serve with chips for a hearty main dish or appetizer.

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Cheesy Chili Hash Brown Bake

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Cheesy Chili Hash Brown Bake Recipe
This 5-ingredient casserole features convenient frozen hash brown potatoes, a can of Sloppy Joe sauce and can of chili. The mixture is baked either in ramekins for individual casseroles or in a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.

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Extra-Easy Lasagna

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Extra-Easy Lasagna Recipe
Lasagna recipes don’t get any easier than this 5-ingredient version. You don’t even have to cook the noodles before layering them in the baking dish.
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Spaghetti Casserole

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Spaghetti Casserole Recipe
This hearty one-dish meal spaghetti casserole is great for serving a crowd. You can assemble it a day or two ahead and bake just before serving.

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Football Fiesta Casserole

Football Fiesta Casserole Recipe
Layer a spicy ground beef mixture with kidney beans, olives, cheese and corn chips and bake for a main dish casserole that will satisfy the heartiest of appetites. It’s a great choice for both your game-day crowd and your family dinner crowd.

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Noodle-and-Spinach Casserole

Noodle-and-Spinach Casserole Recipe
This lasagna-like ground beef casserole has wide egg noodles instead of lasagna noodles, so there’s no layering required. You simply add a jar of spaghetti sauce to the cooked ground beef, stir in the noodles and a creamy, cheesy spinach mixture, and bake.
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Baked Linguine with Meat Sauce

Baked Linguine with Meat Sauce Recipe
Take this casserole version of spaghetti and meat sauce to your next potluck supper and win rave reviews. The layer of sour cream and cream cheese between the pasta and the meat sauce makes the whole dish rich and creamy and hard to resist.
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