Beef and Potato Nacho Casserole

Submitted by pines506

"I got this off of another website a while ago. Good Saturday night dinner. My daughter, who doesn't really like Mexican food, loves this."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 2 lbs lean ground beef
• 3⁄4 cup chopped onion, divided
• 1 (1 1/4 ounce) package taco seasoning mix
• 3⁄4 cup water
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chilies, drained
• 1 (14 ounce) can red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 (16 ounce) package o'brien frozen potatoes, thawed
• 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can nacho cheese soup, undiluted
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 1⁄4 cup chopped green pepper
• 1⁄4 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• paprika

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Brown beef and 1/2 cup onion in skillet, drain fat.
3. Stir in taco seasoning, water and tomato sauce.
4. Bring to a boil and simmer 5 minutes.
5. Spread meat mixture into a greased 9 x 13 pan. Top with chilies, kidney beans and potatoes.
6. In mixing bowl, combine soup, milk, remaining onion, pepper, sugar and worcestershire sauce.
7. Pour over potatoes.
8. Sprinkle with paprika.
9. Cover with foil and bake 15 minutes.
10. Uncover and bake another 5-10 until lightly browned.
11. Allow to stand 10 minutes before cutting into squares.

Reviews

[*kara*intn]

Unfortunately, this wasn't a hit with us. Usually I think I can fix a recipe with just a little of this or that, but this one was just completely off the mark with us. The cooking time in the recipe was way too short (which I knew from reading the reviews). I went right by the recipe, and I ate mine in a bowl, and my husband and son rolled theirs into a burrito. My 19 month old twins did enjoy it, so they got the leftovers.

 

[ratherbeswimmin]

My step-daughter found this recipe in TOH magazine. We made a few changes to suit us--used hot/spicy taco seasoning in the meat. Left out the chopped green pepper and sugar. Added a little extra Worcestershire. Our recipe said cover and bake 60 minutes with the rest being the same. I don't think it would have been heated through with less cooking time. Thanks for posting.

 

[Starweaver]

Made this last night when I found out we were having last minute company. I got the recipe off another site a while back. I cut the ground beef and it's ingredients in half. Cut the potatoes in half as well. Kept the top sauce the same. I used a can of Ranch style beans, rinsed because I was out of pinto beans. We all loved it. We eat a lot of mexican food here in Texas and this was something different, with the potatoes. Next time I may add a little cheese to the top. I was wishing I had some guacamole to go with it, but I served it with nachos. I think Mexicorn would be good with it too. Served 5 adults and 1 child. Thanks for posting, saved me the time!

 

[skinny marie]

Great taste and something different, we really liked it! I used ground turkey instead of beef and added some shredded cheese before I put the potatoes on top of the meat. It was a little watery, I may cut back on the water in the meat next time but we will definitely have it again. Thanks Luvin Texas, the time definitely needs to be increased, I baked it 40 minutes with the cover on before uncovering and could have baked longer.

 

[Marsha D.]

We enjoyed this casserole. I cut the recipe in half for just the 2 of us here at home. I also changed around a few things and added a few things to replace ingredients I didn't have. I realized after I had already started the hamburger to fry that I didn't have the frozen potatoes so I used recipe#141239. I added alittle minced garlic to the hamburger meat and lefted the onions and green pepper out since they were in the recipe I subbed with. I omitted the green chilies since I didn't have any. I also used a can of cheddar cheese soup and added half a recipe of recipe#121415 to the soup to make a mexican nacho taste and used whipping cream in place of the milk for a richer flavor and I added the tomato sauce to this mix cause I failed to read to add to the hamburger with the taco seasoning. The casserole turned out GREAT and my Dh and I enjoyed it with some chicken nachos that I had made to go along with this dish. Thank you for sharing your recipe! :)