An easy hash brown breakfast casserole made with ground beef, hash browns, cheddar cheese, sour cream, and French fried onions.
Prep Time45 minutesmins
Cook Time45 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr30 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: ground beef, hash browns
Servings: 6
Author: Laura Warnke
Ingredients
1-Poundlean ground beefthawed
1/4Teaspoonsalt
124-oz. Package frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed
110-3/4 oz. Can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1CupSour cream
2CupsShredded cheddar cheese
1Medium yellow onionchopped
22.8 oz. cans French fried onions
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9" x 13" glass baking dish with vegetable oil.
In a heavy skillet or frying pan, cook ground beef with salt until browned, stirring until finely crumbled.
With a slotted spoon, drain any excess fat and transfer beef to large bowl.
Add thawed potatoes, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, cheddar cheese and chopped onion; mix well.
Spread into a 9" x 13" baking dish. If you will be baking this recipe the next morning, stop at this point, cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake 30 minutes. Top with French fried onions and bake 15 minutes more, or until bubbly.