$25,000 Casserole

⏱ 125 mins 🍽 4-6 serving(s) 🏷 One Dish Meal

This is a cherished family recipe from a 1950s cooking contest. It features meat baked with onions and soup, then topped with savoury dumplings coated in buttery crumbs. The dish is finished with a warm, creamy sauce made from soup and sour cream. It yields a filling and delicious meal, ideal for cold evenings. The recipe serves 4 to 6 people.

$25,000 Casserole

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs beef or 2 lbs veal, cut up
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 can onion (1 lb.)
  • 2 cans cream of chicken soup
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
  • 1 teaspoon celery seed
  • 1 teaspoon dry onion flakes
  • 1 tablespoon poppy seed
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 cup breadcrumbs

Method

  1. Toss the meat pieces with half a cup of flour and the paprika to coat.
  2. Brown the coated meat in vegetable oil, then move it to a casserole dish.
  3. Pour the can of onions over the meat.
  4. Mix one can of cream of chicken soup with one can of water and pour this over the meat and onions.
  5. Bake the dish at 350 for 45 minutes.
  6. As the meat bakes, mix together two cups of flour, the baking powder, salt, poultry seasoning, celery seed, onion flakes and poppy seeds.
  7. Stir in a quarter cup of oil and one cup of milk to form a dough.
  8. Drop spoonfuls of the dough into breadcrumbs that have been combined with melted butter.
  9. Place the coated dumplings on top of the meat, increase the oven temperature to 425 and bake for another 20 minutes.
  10. For the sauce, blend the remaining can of cream of chicken soup with the sour cream.
  11. Warm the sauce through and serve it over the finished meat and dumplings.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium2161700 mg

Recipe details

CategoryOne Dish Meal
AuthorSudie