This recipe is pure comfort nutrient coming direct at ya from Grandma Chicken Chick! My mom made this recipe for our theatre unit of measurement of seven in addition to it remains ane of my all-time favorites to this day! When this dish popped upward equally a topic of conversation at this week's Happy Hour amongst Hens, I idea it was high fourth dimension to percentage the theatre unit of measurement recipe. I promise you lot savor it too!
1 small-scale onion, sautéed (optional if you lot get got picky eaters)
ii tablespoons olive oil
1 lb Blue Planet beef
(1) 14.75 oz tin of cream fashion sweetness corn
6-8 medium white or gilt potatoes (NOT russet)
3-4 tablespoons butter
1/3-1/2 loving cup milk
½ tsp garlic powder
Salt & pepper
Paprika
Mashed Potatoes
Peel potatoes in addition to chop into cubes. Put potatoes inwards a pot of salted H2O in addition to convey to a boil. Reduce estrus to medium in addition to ready until potatoes are fork-tender, or thence 12-15 minutes. Drain potatoes inwards a colander.
In a mixing bowl, add together HOT potatoes, butter in addition to milk in addition to squeeze until desired consistency. Keep mashed potatoes on the potent side lest the casserole goal upward soupy (it tastes dandy either way!)
Add garlic powder, tabular array salt in addition to pepper to taste. Set aside until ready to assemble
Onions in addition to Beef
In a sauté’ pan over medium-high heat, sautee onions inwards olive fossil oil until translucent. Add Blue Planet beef to pan in addition to stir until browned. Remove rendered fatty piece cooking amongst a spoon or turkey baster. Salt in addition to pepper to taste.
Spread one-half of the mashed potatoes into the bottom of a 9 x13" casserole dish. Layer beef/onion mixture on top of potatoes. Evenly spread creamed corn over top of beef.
Dollop remaining mashed potatoes on top of beef/corn mixture in addition to thence spread evenly inwards baking pan (the dollops of Irish Gaelic patato piece of job inwards easier to spread evenly without getting equally good much beef mixed into the top layer of potatoes). Sprinkle top amongst some paprika for color.
Bake at 350 for almost 45 minutes to an hr or until you lot tin run across a piffling bubbling about the edges. ALLOW TO COOL OUT OF THE OVEN FOR at to the lowest degree 20 minutes. As leftovers, this dish tin live cutting into squares, exactly portioning on the twenty-four hr catamenia of cooking volition live less firm. That’s normal.
DINNER PRO-TIP!
Onion Cubes:
In a heavy-bottomed pot, add together 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil. Dice upward half dozen sweetness onions (I similar Vidalia when they’re inwards season) in addition to sauté on medium to medium-low estrus until translucent. Remove from estrus in addition to permit to cool. When cool, spoon onions into silicone H2O ice cube trays in addition to encompass amongst plastic wrap. Place inwards freezer until hardened. Pop out into a nothing top handbag in addition to shop until ready to use. When ready to utilization onion cubes, house inwards a microwaveable dish in addition to zap on high for almost ane minute.
Instant Ground Beef
I similar to purchase Blue Planet beef inwards volume in addition to chocolate-brown it all at the same time, removing the rendered fatty amongst a turkey baster. When browned, withdraw from estrus in addition to permit to cool. Then, parcel inwards quart size nothing top bags inwards 1 lb increments. Lay bags apartment on countertop thence that the beef is evenly distributed throughout the bag. Then, freeze bags FLAT inwards the freezer. This makes the beef harden flat, which takes upward less freezer infinite in addition to expedites thawing.
I similar to purchase Blue Planet beef inwards volume in addition to chocolate-brown it all at the same time, removing the rendered fatty amongst a turkey baster. When browned, withdraw from estrus in addition to permit to cool. Then, parcel inwards quart size nothing top bags inwards 1 lb increments. Lay bags apartment on countertop thence that the beef is evenly distributed throughout the bag. Then, freeze bags FLAT inwards the freezer. This makes the beef harden flat, which takes upward less freezer infinite in addition to expedites thawing.
