Amish? Yes. No. Maybe?
So, full disclosure: I have no idea if this is a true Amish recipe. What exactly makes a recipe ‘Amish’? Is there a set of guidelines or rules for this category of food? All I know is that, in general, if a recipe title starts with the word ‘Amish’, we automatically assume it’s gonna be awesome! Right? When I was a kid, my Mom and her friends passed around a bread starter that they all called Amish Friendship Bread. Again, not sure what made it Amish but that was some darn good bread! I should start that up again. However, I’m pretty sure it won’t be as good as I remember. 😉 Nothing ever is as good as you remember it from your childhood. Maybe because our tastebuds are so new at that age – ha!
Good and cheap
So this recipe may (or may not) be Amish but I suppose it doesn’t matter at the end of the day. It’s good and it’s easy and budget-friendly. It reheats really well for lunch the next day and it also freezes well too.
Amish Country Casserole
If you have a small family, like I do, you could separate this into two smaller pans. Eat one now and freeze one for later! And you could certainly add your favorite veggies to this as well. I love to serve it with a great big salad and some sort of bread.
Ingredients:
1 (12 oz) bag medium egg noodles
1 lb. ground beef
1 (10.75) can tomato soup
1 (10.5 oz) can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup milk
salt & pepper, to taste
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp minced garlic
2 tbsp dried onion flakes
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350f degrees. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside. Cook egg noodles according to package directions and drain well. In a large skillet, cook and crumble ground beef. Drain grease.
In a large bowl stir together tomato soup, cream of mushroom soup, milk, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, minced garlic and dried onion flakes. Finally, stir in cooked egg noodles and ground beef. 
Spread mixture into prepared baking dish.
Bake, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes. Then top with grated Parmesan cheese.
Serve with garlic bread and salad.
Enjoy!
Recipe inspiration: Plain Chicken
- 1 (12 oz) bag medium egg noodles
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 (10.75 oz) can tomato soup
- 1 (10.5 oz) can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 cup milk
- salt & pepper to taste
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 tsp minced garlic
- 2 tbsp dried onion flakes
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Preheat oven to 350f degrees. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside.
- Cook egg noodles according to package directions and drain well.
- In a large skillet, cook and crumble ground beef. Drain grease.
- In a large bowl stir together tomato soup, cream of mushroom soup, milk, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, minced garlic and dried onion flakes.
- Finally, stir in cooked egg noodles and ground beef. Spread mixture into prepared baking dish.
- Bake, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes.
- Then top with grated Parmesan cheese and serve with garlic bread and salad.
Oh my word!! This looks so good AND easy!! I can’t wait to try it!!
Hope you love it!
Growing up in Eastern PA, this is some of the food I grew up on. Of course, we are “Pensylvania German” and not Amish. By the way, I have a starter of Amish Friendship Bread in my freezer. I also don’t know if it is truly “Amish,” but it is amazing.
Hi Julie! If you have a recipe to get one started – I’d love to have your recipe!
Love this but will have to change a few things only because of dietary needs. I will use ground turkey meat instead of ground beef and reduced fat soups and soy Parmesan cheese. I can guarantee though it will taste just as fab!!
Thank you so much!!
Whatever works for you and your dietary needs 🙂 Love it!
This is reminiscent of my mother’s meals for our family of 10! Cheap, calorie loaded, but oh so good!
Ha! Exactly! Everything in moderation is my motto! 🙂
I live in Berks County, PA, in the heart of PA Dutch Country. Just checked my Amish cookbook and they gave the same recipe but they sauté chopped celery, onion and green pepper first for five minutes then brown the burger, and omit the mushroom soup and garlic powder, as they are very “plain folk”, I’m guessing. Sounds super easy to out together and tasty too.
Hi Janet! Thank you for looking it up! I would definitely add celery, onion and green pepper. I love all of those! My family acts like they are allergic to any vegetable but it sounds good to me. Ha!
Not being able to eat mushrooms, this recipe poses a challenge for me. Cream of chicken just seems wrong. How about Cream of Onion or Cream of Celery as a substitute????
Hey Joan! I agree. I don’t think cream of chicken either. I like your other options though. I actually think either would work with the tastes in this recipe! I probably lean more towards Cream of Celery since it’s one of my favorites. Let me know if you try it!
Made it tonight. It was a big hit and so simple. Love it and will definitely be making it again.
Sorry my precious comment was meant to be 5 stars.
We live Michigan. I remember eating this out of the womb. We also do the celery, no tomato soup and top it with Cheddar cheese it is so delicious!!. I grew up calling it super supper. Mom’s making supper supper for dinner.YEAH!!!!
Add celery, green pepper and drained can of corn. Very tasty.
That Amish Friendship Bread starter, of which you speak, was going around when I was a young wife and mother. I liked it so much that I have kept it alive all these years! Over the last 39 years I’ve used it in so many ways. I could possibly share it. If there was enough interest.
I would love the recipe I also had it when my kid’s were little….
Pl email me or post Amish Friendship Recipe, I lost mine in my move. Thank you.
This casserole is so delicious. I didn’t change a thing and we all loved it. So easy to make!
Do you think this would freeze well?
What is that tool you’re using while cooking the hamburger meat? I’ve never seen one of those before…
It’s a meat mincer for getting the meat perfect for any “loose meat” recipe. My kids will not eat big chunks of ground beef. A potato masher works as well!
Fixing for dinner tonight sure hope it is as good as is looks. All my children coming home from college I hopethey love it!
I made this this weekend and it was absolutely delicious! It makes a lot too! I brought leftovers for lunch today 🙂
Woo hoo!! Thanks so much for coming back to let me know Melinda!
Trying this recipe tonight. I was on my way home from work and brought up casserole recipes on my phone… standing right in the store! I hope my family, especially my picky husband, likes it. It was so simple to whip up. If it is good, it will be a recipe…giving your website full credit… on my recipe wall.
DELICIOUS! Will make again.
Hi Jodi! Yay!! Thanks so much for coming back to let us know! 🙂
My mom makes something very similar and the only difference is her recipe has a can of cheddar cheese soup. We actually had this last night! It was amazing!
I made this a few weeks ago going to make it soon. Didn’t have onion flakes just finely minced an onion and cooked with the mince
And used a cream of mushroom packet soup. It tasted so yummy and we had left over for break and lunch. We really enjoyed it thank you for sharing it
Good recipe – it does freeze well. Usually add diced tomatoes and flavor to taste with a jalapeño sauce.
This was awesome! The family loved it. I added fresh cut veggies like peppers, n onion with garlic. Then changed the tomato soup to 2 cans of diced tomatoes instead. Thnx a bunch for great recipe!
I am making this tomorrow, but will add diced onion to the ground beef while it cooks and sliced baby bella mushrooms as well. It’s almost like an American Goulash, just a little different. I’m sure it will be awesome!
I made this for dinner last night. I didn’t have any noodles on hand so I used elbows. Didn’t change anything else and it was absolutely delicious. My guys loved it.! My sis-in-law was over and liked it so much she had seconds!! Served it with some garlic bread….yummy stuff!!
Wahoo!! Thanks so much Diane! I love how you used what you had on hand – perfect!