Easy Recipes For Those Who Like To Cook and Bake
This is my Grandma’s recipe and always a favorite when she would make it. It just says comfort food to me! Ingredients include ground beef, creamed corn, olives, tomato sauce and corn meal which creates a delicious tamale casserole pie. Bake it for an hour and serve with tortillas and a salad for a perfect meal.
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Sometimes I have to step away from the carbs! Especially with Thanksgiving dinner around the corner. I have absolutely no willpower, I want to try everything! This casserole freezes really well if you want to double the recipe, which I have been know to do. You can also try this recipe with ground turkey or chicken, it’s all delicious.
Ingredients
1 lb ground beef
1 onion chopped
2 eggplants
1/2 container ricotta cheese
1 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
2 eggs
1/2 package Mozzarella Cheese, grated
1 jar Marinara Sauce ( I like Rao’s)
Directions
Slice eggplant long ways into slices, saute in a pan, on medium heat with olive oil until soft, about 2-3 minutes per each side. Set aside. Saute chopped onion and ground beef in a pan until beef is browned, drain fat. Set aside. In a bowl, beat eggs, add ricotta and parmesan cheese. Set aside. In a 9 x 12 baking dish, pour 1/4 marinara sauce on bottom of dish, place cooked eggplant over sauce, add dollops cheese mixture, gently spread, add sauce, meat and add eggplant and remainder of cheese mixture, sauce, cover with mozzarella cheese, bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes until golden brown and bubbly.
Stuffed cabbage is a perfect dish when you you want to use leftover’s in your refrigerator. I had pasta meat sauce and brown rice already, so this was easy to put together. It’s a lot
of steps, but well worth it.
This recipe comes from one of my favorite cookbooks, The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 12th Edition. The great thing about this recipe is you can use what you have on hand, for the beef, you can substitute pork or chicken or sausage, you can use any kind of rice and add the seasonings that you prefer.
I have Bavarian Seasoning from Penzey’s Spice. This just sounds like something I would order in a Bavarian Restaurant so I went with the feeling and it worked great.
STUFFED CABBAGE LEAVES
Recipe semi adapted from Fannie Farmer Cookbook
