astray recipes: Individual hamburger casseroles

Categories: Beef
Yield: 6 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
1 pounds	Ground beef or ground pork
½ cup	Chopped onion
1½ cup	Soft bread crumbs; 2 slices
¾ teaspoon	Salt
½ teaspoon	Dried thyme; crushed
⅛ teaspoon	Pepper
3 tablespoons	Margarine or butter
¼ cup	All-purpose flour
½ teaspoon	Salt
2 cups	Reconstituted nonfat milk or milk
½ cup	Shredded American cheese or process cheese
2 cups	Cooked vegetables broccolicauliflower*
2 tablespoons	Margarine or butter; melted

In skillet cook ground beef or pork and onion till meat is browned; drain off fat. Stir in ½ cup of the soft bread crumbs, the ¾ teaspoon salt, the thyme, and pepper.

In saucepan melt the 3 tablespoons margarine or butter; blend in flour and the ½ teaspoon salt. Add milk all at once. Cook and stir till thickened and bubbly. Add cheese, stirring till melted. Stir in meat mixture and cooked vegetables.

Turn meat-vegetable mixture into six 1 cup individual casseroles. (If desired, cover andd refrigerate casseroles up to 24 hours.) Combine remaining bread crumbs with the 2 tablespoons melted margarine or butter.

Sprinkle atop casseroles just before baking. Bake in 350 oven about 20 minutes or till heated through. (Bake about 35 minutes if chilled.) Makes 6 servings.

Recipe by: Better Homes & Gardens Low Cost Cooking Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #995 by L979<L979@...> on Jan 8, 1998

individual hamburger casseroles