How to Make Cornbread Casserole | Easy Dinner Recipe #cooking #food

cheddar cheese

🥗Healthier: reduced-fat cheese

💰Cheaper: monterey jack cheese

Reduced-fat cheese lowers calories while still providing flavor.

cooked sausage

🥗Healthier: turkey sausage

💰Cheaper: ground beef

Turkey sausage is lower in fat, while ground beef is often less expensive.

Turn on the skillet to heat up.

Season the beef with all-purpose seasoning, ensuring the meat is dry before seasoning.

Add the beef to the skillet, ensuring not to overcrowd it to allow for browning.

Brown the beef on each side, then remove it from the skillet, leaving the drippings.

Add bell peppers, onions, and celery to the skillet and sweat the vegetables for about 5 to 7 minutes, scraping the bottom of the pan.

Add garlic and bay leaf to the vegetables in the last two minutes of cooking.

Transfer the sautéed vegetables to a casserole dish, including the drippings, and mix well, leaving the bay leaf in the dish.

To make the gravy, mix flour, Lipton onion soup mix, Worcestershire sauce, and water until combined.

Pour the gravy mixture over the vegetables in the casserole dish, then add the carrots and potatoes, ensuring they are cut to similar sizes for even cooking.

Cover the vegetables with the gravy mixture and bake in the oven for an hour and a half, checking for doneness by piercing the meat with a fork.

After an hour and a half, remove the bay leaf and add frozen sweet peas, mixing them in.

Prepare the cornbread by mixing two boxes of Jiffy according to package instructions and spread it over the top of the casserole.

Return the casserole to the oven uncovered until the cornbread is done, about 25 minutes, and use the broiler to brown the top of the cornbread if desired.

Let the casserole sit for 10 to 15 minutes before serving.

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