Layered Fiesta Casserole Recipes

LAYERED FIESTA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Brown meat with peppers in a large skillet; drain. Return meat mixture to the pan and stir in salsa, tomatoes and corn. Bring to a boil.
• Spoon 1 cup of the meat mixture onto the bottom a a 13x9-inch" pan, top with 6 tortillas, overlapping as necessary. Spoon half of the remaining meat mixture over tortillas, sprinkle with half the cheese.
• Top with the remaining 6 tortillas and then the rest of the meat mixture. Cover it with foil.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until heated through. Remove from the oven, uncover and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Let stand 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.

MEXICAN FIESTA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375F.
• Cook the ground beef in a large skillet until browned; drain off the excess fat.
• Season the meat with the salt and pepper; set aside.
• Mix together the cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise and onion; set this mixture aside.
• Stir the biscuit mix and water together until a soft dough forms.
• With floured fingers, pat the dough into the bottom of a greased 13 X 9 X 2-inch baking pan, pressing the dough about 1/2-inch up the sides of the pan.
• Layer the browned ground beef, tomato slices, green pepper, and sliced olives over the dough layer.
• Spoon the sour cream and cheese mixture over the top.
• Bake, uncovered, until the edges of the dough are light brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Cool 5 minutes and then cut into squares to serve.

TEX-MEX FIESTA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Spray an 8-by-8-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• In a large skillet sprayed with cooking spray, brown meat, garlic, onion and green pepper.
• Add salsa, chili seasoning, tomato sauce and ketchup.
• Mix well to combine.
• Stir in corn, rice and cheddar cheese.
• Pour mixture into prepared baking dish.
• Bake for 20 minutes.
• Place baking dish on a wire rack and let set for 5 minutes.
• Divide into 6 servings.
• HINT: 1 1/3 cups uncooked rice usually cooks to about 2 cups.

FIESTA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• 1. Cook rice as directed on packages.
• 2. Brown meat and add taco spice. (I make my own with coriander, cumin, garlic, onion, chili pepper, pepper, salt. ) Pre-pack is fine. Add Rotel tomatoes. Simmer for 4 minutes.
• 3. Spread rice in 9 x 13 dish.
• 4. Top with meat.
• 5. Top with salsa. Any kind is fine; my kids tend to like it with the peach or the sweeter type salsa as the Rotel tomatoes have a bite.
• 6. Top with Ragu cheese sauce.
• 7. Bake for 30 minutes at 350.
• 8. Pull from oven and allow to rest for at least 15 minutes, Get your chips and DIG IN!