Vintage Mexican Casserole 👵🏼
What is better than finding a treasure trove of vintage recipes from the days of our past? To me there is not much better than that. Recently a friend entrusted me with their mother’s handmade recipe book and I am going to share some of my favorite recipes from the book beginning with Mexican Chicken Casserole. I chose this recipe because of how unique the combination of the ingredients were and I felt it was a good representation of times past.
So the story goes, my friend’s mother was a stay at home mom and lived in Anacortes, Washington and she absolutely loved being a homemaker and took it very seriously. She made beautiful meals every single night for her family and she exchanged recipes with the women in her community. Together she and her friends typed up their favorite recipes and found advertisers to help pay for publishing. In celebration of these wonderful women and my friend’s mother Nana Mickie, I present to you the first recipe!
This recipe is so incredibly delicious and simple to make if you’re here because you saw my video on social media I promise you the flavor of this casserole lives up to the hype of the imagery from the video. The original recipe Nana Mickie made was with chicken (pictured below) and you can certainly make this recipe with chicken as she did, but I chose to use ground beef and boy did it turn out incredible!
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👝 How to Store Leftovers
Store in an air-tight container for 3-5 days in the refrigerator.
🤔 Common Questions
Using chicken or ground turkey would also be delicious!
To add more spice to this casserole I would recommend using the hot diced green chilis instead of the mild.
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Vintage Mexican Casserole
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1.5 – 2 lbs ground chuck
- 1 onion chopped
- 4 tbsp taco seasoning
- 1 heaping tbsp minced garlic
- 10 oz can Rotel diced tomatoes and green chilis
- 10 oz can Rotel diced tomatoes with lime juice and cilantro
- 4 oz shredded colby jack cheese
- 8.5 oz box corn muffin mix
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 15.25 oz can kernel corn drained
- 4 oz can mild diced green chilis
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- In a cast iron or pan, add in olive oil, ground chuck, onions, and taco seasoning. Mash the meat up using a meat masher or a spoon and saute that on medium – medium high heat until the meat is browned. Next, add in the minced garlic and saute that together for a few more minutes. Then, add in both cans of the Rotel, stir everything together, and saute that for about 5-7 minutes until about half of the Rotel juice has evaporated out. Lastly, add in the colby jack cheese and stir that together until the cheese is melted and incorporated.
- In a large measuring cup or bowl, add in the corn muffin mix, eggs, sour cream, and mix that together until combined. Then, add in the corn and mix that together until incorporated.
- Add the ground beef mixture into a baking dish and dollop the green chilis over the top of the ground beef mixture. Sprinkle the shredded cheddar cheese over the top of the green chilis and then add dollops of the corn muffin mixture all over to cover the top.
- Bake at 350°F for 55 minutes – 1 hour. Once it’s browned at the top and the cornbread has fully set up you know it’s done. Let that cool for about 15 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
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Notes
- You can replace the ground chuck with a rotisserie chicken shredded up or with three chicken breasts boiled and shredded.
- If you are using a smaller baking dish place a baking sheet under the oven rack that has the baking dish in case some liquid bubbles over.
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