Grannys Cherokee Casserole Recipes

CHEROKEE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Cook rice per normal cooking instructions.
• While rice cooks, brown meat and cook onions until tender.
• Drain excess fat from meat.
• Combine meat and onions in skillet, and add crushed tomatoes, mushroom soup, bay leaf, oregano, garlic powder, cumin, salt, pepper, olives.
• Simmer together in skillet until rice is finished cooking.
• Add rice, and mix all ingredients well.
• Top casserole with cheese until melted.

GRANNY'S CHEROKEE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Brown ground beef and onions in a dutch oven until beef is no longer pink.
• Drain excess fat.
• Add the remaining ingredients, except for the cheese, and mix well.
• Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.
• Place in a 9 x 13 casserole dish and top with the slices of cheese.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until cheese is bubbling and starting to brown.
• **NOTE**-Thisfreezes well (without the cheese, of course) so I usually make mine in 2 8 x 8 disposable pans and put one in the freezer for later.
• Add a small salad and some fruit and you've got an easy meal!
• **Istill think when I read it each time that it is too much garlic powder, but I have tried with less and it really does need that much.
• I also don't know why the sugar is there, but the taste is not the same without it!