Friendship Casserole Recipe (2024)

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Friendship Casserole is a huge hit in my house! The kids have loved it every time we have made it!! The second time I did up two larger casserole dishes instead of these three smaller casserole pans pictured and we froze one and cooked one!!!

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Kylie is obsessed with any pasta dish so this is one of our busy weeknight go-to recipes! Plus this is a super cheap dinner, since it makes two casseroles I always have dinner in the freezer to pull out if we didn’t take one somewhere. We first made this back in 2013 and it still gets made often!

Friendship Casserole Ingredients:

Ground Beef
Pasta Sauce
Minced Garlic
Egg Noodles– Any variety of egg noodles will work for this recipe.
Butter
Minced Onion- You can put n fresh chopped onion or onion powder depending on your taste preference.
Grated Parmesan Cheese-You can use fresh parmesan cheese or the Kraft Green Container Parmesan Cheese.
Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

How To Make Friendship Casserole:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In a frying pan start to brown your ground beef, or pull out frozen cooked ground beef. (see my post on tips for this -> here)

Start a pot of water to boil and start to cook the egg noodles.

Strain the ground meat and egg noodles when they are done.

Place the browned hamburger back into the frying pan and allow the meat to simmer with the pasta sauce and seasonings.

When your noodles are strained place them back into the pot and mix with butter and the parmesan cheese until the butter has melted.

Spray your casserole pans with a nonstick spray.

Spread half the sauce mixture over the bottom of both pans, so 1/4 of the sauce is covering the bottom of each of the pans. I prefer to use pryex casserole pans they clean so much easier. Plus they are perfect for freezing your casseroles in as well for eating later on or passing on to another family.

What To Serve With Friendship Casserole:

Kale Salad
Parmesan Garlic Breadsticks
Vegetable Stir Fry
Cheesy Monkey Bread
Garlic Pull-Apart Bread
Pull-Apart Cheesy Bread

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Friendship Casserole

Friendship casserole is a quick and easy meal the whole family will love! Be sure to check it out and pin it!! Makes enough to share a casserole or freeze!

Course Dinner, Easy Dinner

Ingredients

2 Pounds Ground Beef
48 Ounce Pasta Sauce
2-3 Tablespoon Minced Garlic
16 Ounce Egg Noodles
1/2 Cup Butter
Minced Onion
1/2 Cup Parmesan Cheese
12 Ounce Mozzarella Cheese

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
In a frying pan start to brown your ground beef, or pull out frozen cooked ground beef.
Start a pot of water to boil and start to cook the egg noodles.
Strain the ground meat and egg noodles when they are done.
Place the browned hamburger back into the frying pan and allow the meat to simmer with the pasta sauce and seasonings.
Put egg noodles in pan removed from heat and mix with butter and parm cheese until the butter is melted.
Spread half the sauce mixture over the bottom of both pans, so 1/4 of the sauce is covering the bottom of each of the pans.
Divide buttered egg noodles over the sauce mixture of both pans.
Spread the remaining sauce over noodles in both pans.
Top both of the pans with mozzarella cheese, if freezing skip topping with cheese
If cooking right away cover the pan with foil and place in the oven to bake for 10 minutes.
If freezing allows the casserole to be fully thawed be for baking and top with cheese.

Notes

Nutrition

Thanks to my friend Amber for showing me this recipe from the Newlyweds Blog!

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