Mexican style beef casserole
Mexican style beef casserole recipe in the casserole category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 cup chopped tomatoes or 1, 8 ounce, can tomato sauce
- 1/3 cup chile sauce
- Salt, to taste
- Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 12 corn tortillas, cut into quarters
- 1/2 cup red taco sauce
- 3 cups shredded Monterey jack cheese
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2, 10 ounce, packages frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well drained
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a large skillet brown the beef.
- Pour off any fat and remove beef. Set aside.
- Add oil to skillet and saute onion until limp and golden.
- Return beef to skillet and add tomatoes, chili sauce, salt and pepper.
- Dip tortilla quarters in taco sauce, covering both sides.
- Cover bottom of a buttered 3 quart casserole with half the tortilla pieces, slightly overlapping.
- Spread beef mixture over tortillas.
- Sprinkle beef with 1 1/2 cups of the cheese.
- Layer remaining tortilla pieces on top and spread with sour cream.
- Sprinkle on the spinach and top with remaining cheese.
- Bake, covered, for 30 minutes, uncovering for the last 15 minutes.
- If reheating, have the casserole at room temperature and bake at 375 degrees F, uncovered, until hot and bubbly.
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