Fiesta cornbread casserole

This is a Tex-Mex style casserole with a crispy cornbread crust that you can make almost entirely out of your food storage. The only “fresh” thing you need is cheese. You could skip that, but hey, what’s Tex-Mex without some melted cheese?

Serve with a side salad or veg of your choice such as corn, etc.

This recipe uses:

• Cornbread mix
• Home canned ground beef
• Home canned kidney beans or home canned pinto beans
• Taco Seasoning Mix
• Home-canned salsa
• Minnesota Mix

The recipe

Yield: 9 x ½  cup (200 g / 7 oz) servings

Oven temperature: 175 C / 350 F

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Fiesta cornbread casserole

This is a Tex-Mex style casserole with a crispy cornbread crust that you can make almost entirely out of your food storage.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Casserole

Prep Time 35 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes

Servings 9 ½ cup (200 g / 7 oz)) servings

Calories 204kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 1 batch DIY cornbread mix
• 1 half-litre jar home-canned ground beef
• 1 half-litre jar home-canned kidney beans (or pinto beans)
• 2 teaspoons DIY taco seasoning
• 1 quarter-litre jar salsa
• 125 g cheese (grated. 1 cup)
• 1 half-litre jar Minnesota mix

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Spray 20 x 20 cm (8 x 8 inch) pan well. Set aside.
• Start heating oven to 175 C / 350 F.
• Make up 1 batch cornbread mix as per regular directions, pour into pan.
• Drain beef and beans. Put in microwave-safe dish. Zap in microwave 2 minutes, covered.
• Pour mixture into sieve to drain for a minute.
• Take drained mixture, mix with taco seasoning.
• Put meat and bean mixture over dough in dollops.
• Next, dollop the salsa over the layer of meat mixture.
• Scatter the cheese on top of that.
• Open the jar of Minnesota Mix stewed tomatoes, spoon all around to cover.
• Put into oven.
• Bake for 60 minutes.
• Let stand 5 minutes out of oven before cutting.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 204kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 32mg | Sodium: 299mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g

Recipe notes

Instead of Minnesota Mix tomatoes, you could use a similar-sized jar of any stewed tomatoes.

Source

In-house.

Nutrition

Serving size: ½ cup (200 g / 7 oz) (1 / 9th the dish)

Per serving:

• 204 calories, 299 mg sodium
• Weight Watchers PointsPlus®:  5 points;
• Weight Watchers SmartPoints®: 5 points.