Easy Casseroles: Stacy Lyn’s Favorites
Delicious yet easy casseroles are a mainstay of Southern hospitality. A good casserole dish is comforting, filling, and best of all, portable! It takes the stress out of dinner on a busy weeknight, and it also travels right in its baking dish to a church potluck or the home of a sick neighbor.
The standard ingredients of a casserole are all about comfort: pasta noodles, potatoes, ground beef, melty cheese, and buttery cracker-crumb topping. You will find many of those ingredients in my best casserole recipes. However, you’ll also find something different from the standard tuna noodle casserole or pasta bakes.
A couple of these recipes are main dishes. The rest are stick-to-your-ribs sides that will complement any meat, from a rotisserie chicken to an Easter ham.
Easy Casserole Recipes for Holiday Meals, Weeknight Dinner, or Anytime
By adding a layer of gooey cheese, cream cheese, butter, sour cream, and bacon to the potatoes, you turn leftovers into something new. This is one of my favorite cozy casseroles.
I think shepherd's pie qualifies as an easy casserole. I'm also including it as an ultimate comfort food. My version uses mashed sweet potatoes and is gluten and dairy free.
My mother-in-law's secret pineapple cheese casserole recipe is now yours! The sweet flavor of pineapple melds beautifully with cheddar cheese and Ritz cracker crumbs.
Every holiday table needs this classic casserole. And talk about easy: you just need green beans, cream of mushroom condensed soup, milk, salt, pepper, and crunchy French fried onions.
Bake this squash casserole when you're craving veggies mixed with parmesan and cheddar cheese and topped with Ritz cracker crumbs.
Healthy vegetables are the star in this dish. This cheesy easy casserole is perfect as a side dish but also can serve as an easy vegetarian main dish for a weeknight meal.
Casserole for breakfast? Yes! It has some of my favorite ingredients like sausage, grits, eggs, cream, cream cheese, Velveeta, Gruyere, and sharp cheddar cheese. This dish is also great for dinner.
