7 Easy Comfort Food Recipes, #3
Mom Knows Best When It Comes To Comfort Food For Her Kids Like This Broccoli Rice Casserole! My mom made broccoli rice casserole with lots of cheese pretty much my whole childhood. It was the only way she could get my little brother to eat “green trees”. Yes, that is what he called broccoli florets.
Check out what my pal Audrey from Melady Cooks had to say about this wonderful recipe:
I modified the recipe I started with by melting the second stick of butter, cubing the Velveeta, and stirring it in a pan until it is melted. Originally you just cubed the cheese and stirred it into the casserole. I ended up stirring it several times as it baked so that I didn’t end up with cheesy pockets. I liked a more uniform blend of cheese, rice, crackers, and broccoli. Melting the cheese before mixing seemed a wise move.
I mean, I don’t know if I’d be all that upset by cheese pockets LOL!
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups Uncle Ben’s cooked rice (1 cup long grain rice cooked in 2 cups water)
1/2 teaspoon Morton salt
2 sticks margarine; divided
1/2 cup onion; chopped
1 lb broccoli; cut into florets
1 can Campbell’s cheddar cheese soup
1 lb Velveeta; cubed
1 package ritz crackers; crushed (one sleeve or stack or whatever you call it, not the whole box!)
Instructions
Put 2 cups of cold water, 1 cup of long grain rice (not Minute rice) and 1/2 teaspoon salt into a small pan and bring to a boil. Turn heat to lowest setting, cover and set your timer for 15 minutes. When done, fluff with fork and pour into a large bowl. If you have more than 1 1 /2 cups rice, put it all in anyway. The recipe is very forgiving.
Cut broccoli into smaller florets and blanch in boiling water, then into cold water. Drain and add to large bowl.
Saute onion in 1 stick of margarine until translucent and tender. Add to bowl and return pan to heat.
Cube Velveeta into large chunks. Melt 1 stick of butter in pan and add Velveeta chunks, stirring often. It will stick and burn to the bottom of the pan if not closely watched!
Pour melted cheese mixture over ingredients in large bowl. Add canned soup to the bowl.
Break apart Ritz crackers into larger pieces, about 3-4 pieces per cracker. Add them to the large bowl of ingredients and mix well, spreading the cheese throughout the mixture.
Pour into a greased 13″ x 9″ dish. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour, stirring halfway through baking. I bake it 1 1/2 hours because I double the recipe and like it browned more.
Thank you Melady Cooks for this great recipe.
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Quick tip: Serve with crusty French bread.
Looking for a recipe Mom used to make. She called it Baked Eggs. They looked like deviled eggs, but I don’t know what they were filled with. They were baked in a shallow casserole with a white sauce.
We call this Eggs Casino. Make your fav deviled egg recipe. Prepare a white sauce (butter, flour, milk) and add some grated Parmesan cheese. Pour sauce over eggs and bake in 350 oven until sauce browns a little bit. Quick, easy and yummy.
My mom put them in a muffin tin, 1 egg, cover with a pat of butter, whipping cream and salt and pepper. Bake
Judy Meats was it maybe Eggs Divan?
My grandmother never had Pablo.
Panko bread crumbs
Do you think you could do this as patties instead of a meatloaf? My family is little, so a meatloaf would be a lot of food for us.
Make mini loaves instead!
It’s just me and my daughter I do meatloaf and have left overs for lunches
Does this icing set like a fudge icing?
For the cake is that teaspoons or tablespoons?
There were measurements on all ingredients. If you’re asking does the “t.” Mean teaspoon or tablespoon, as it’s lower case, it denotes a teaspoon. An upper case “T” would be a tablespoon.
I love how you made the Sheppard pie.
I never added caramelized meat nor corn. Can not wait to use Beef stock instead of ? tomato paste and water.