📋 Potato and Ground Beef Casserole (with spinach) Recipe

Potato casserole with spinach and beef in blue casserole dish

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📋 Potato and Ground Beef Casserole (with spinach) Recipe

This Ground Beef and Potato Casserole (with spinach) is a complete meal in one pot. With sliced potatoes, frozen spinach, ground beef/hamburger and Swiss cheese, you get your entire dinner in one dish!

Course dinner, main dish, Side Dish

Cuisine American, Canadian, North American

Keyword casserole, ground beef, potato, spinach

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 45

Total Time 1 15

Servings servings

Calories 281kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

8 small - medium potatoes * I use red because I think they look really nice, but you could use white as well
5 tbsp butter, melted
2 small onions, chopped
2 clove garlic
1 ½ lbs extra lean ground beef
2 -10 ounce pkgs of frozen spinach Defrosted, drained with liquid squeezed out
1 cup cottage cheese
2 cups grated Swiss cheese
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon Pepper

Garnish

chopped chives (shown in photos) or green onions

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and Grease and 9" X 11" casserole dish
Cook ground beef in skillet with diced onion until browned and cooked through. Drain and set aside.
Slice potatoes into ¼ inch thick rounds.
Place sliced potatoes on a plate and cover with saran wrap. Alternatively, you can simply cover it with a microwave safe cover if you don't want to use saran wrap.
Cook in the microwave for 8 minutes or until fork through easily. *I do this in 2 batches
**BE CAREFUL when you take the saran wrap off ( if you use it) as lots of steam is released and it's HOT!
Melt butter in separate bowl in microwave safe bowl.
Arrange half of the potatoes in bottom of dish and drizzle with butter.
In a separate medium mixing bowl, mix ½ cup grated Swiss cheese, spinach, cottage cheese, garlic, salt and egg. Then add ground beef. Mix well.
Spread the spinach and ground beef mixture over the first layer of potatoes and butter.
Cover with remaining potatoes, drizzle with remaining 2 ½ tablespoon butter.
Sprinkle with remaining 1 ½ cups Swiss cheese.
Bake 40-50 minutes or until potatoes are soft. Cool for 5 minutes

Garnish

Garnish with chopped chives or green onions

Notes

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