How to Make Husband’s Delight Casserole
In this video, Ivy shows you how to make a husband’s delight casserole. This baked recipe starts by browning and crumbling ground sirloin and Italian sausage with onions over the stove. Once that’s been cooked and seasoned, stir the cooked mixture together with marinara and egg noodles before transferring to a casserole dish. Once the dish has been layered with a cream cheese mixture and shredded cheese over the top, bake it in the oven for around thirty minutes. Pair this delicious casserole with a glass of red wine and garlic bread for an Italian dinner to remember.
Transcript
00:00 This casserole recipe is called Husband's Delight.
00:03 Let's find out why.
00:04 Add some olive oil to a skillet.
00:08 Add the onion to the skillet
00:09 and just saute it until it's soft.
00:11 (sizzling)
00:13 Once your onion is mostly soft,
00:16 we can add in that ground sirloin
00:20 and ground Italian sausage.
00:22 I'm using ground sirloin because it doesn't have
00:26 as much fat as other types of ground beef,
00:29 but you can really use whatever you have on hand
00:32 or whatever you prefer.
00:33 We're cooking our meat and kind of stirring it occasionally
00:36 as we cook it to fully crumble it up
00:39 and also wanna make sure there is no pink left,
00:41 so we're browning it.
00:42 And once that happens,
00:43 we can add in a packet of Italian dressing mix.
00:46 We're also adding in a half teaspoon of salt.
00:49 Salt makes everything taste better.
00:52 All right, we're off the heat.
00:53 Here is 32 ounces of jarred marinara.
00:57 And then I have already gone ahead
00:58 and cooked a pound of extra wide egg noodles.
01:02 You could really use any kind of noodle
01:04 that you have on hand.
01:05 Give this a good stir,
01:06 and if you're like me and you didn't choose
01:07 a big enough skillet, do it very carefully
01:09 so it doesn't spill,
01:11 or you could transfer it to a larger bowl.
01:13 Once it's all mixed together,
01:14 you can put it into a nine by 13 casserole dish
01:17 that you have greased.
01:20 I used olive oil.
01:21 You could do cooking spray.
01:22 You could really do whatever.
01:23 And now, time for the best part, a cheese layer,
01:26 which is going to be so creamy and delicious.
01:28 It has cream cheese and cottage cheese.
01:32 You could also use ricotta cheese if you wanted.
01:35 Why I think it's called husband's delight
01:37 is because it is basically like lasagna,
01:40 just without lasagna noodles.
01:42 Into our bowl of cream cheese and cottage cheese,
01:46 I'm also going to add in a half a teaspoon
01:49 of crushed red pepper.
01:51 Mix this up until it's very well incorporated.
01:55 My cream cheese, I let it come to room temperature
01:58 so it would be easy to mix with my cottage cheese.
02:02 Dollop it over our meat sauce coated noodles in the dish.
02:07 Look at this.
02:10 I mean, it just looks like lasagna.
02:11 I'm gonna spread it out as best as I can.
02:14 It's okay if you get some of the noodles
02:16 and meat sauce up in this layer.
02:18 Last but not least, top it with some shredded cheddar.
02:21 I know I always say that shredding your own cheese
02:24 is the best way to go, but for something like this,
02:26 when you're just topping a casserole,
02:27 it really is fine to use pre-shredded cheese,
02:30 especially if it is the very thick shreds.
02:34 Look at this.
02:36 It's going in the oven at 375 degrees
02:38 for about 25 to 30 minutes, just until the edges are bubbly
02:41 and the cheese is nice and melted.
02:43 And here we have it, y'all.
02:48 This looks so good.
02:50 It is bubbling and the cheese is melted
02:54 and crispy on parts of the bits.
02:56 It smells amazing.
02:58 I get why they call this husband's delight
03:00 because how could you not be delighted
03:02 by meat sauce covered in cheesy noodles?
03:06 Time to dish it up.
03:08 I love getting little crispy bits of melted cheese.
03:13 Oh my gosh, look at this.
03:15 Yum.
03:17 It kind of looks like lasagna with the cheesy layer on top
03:22 and that melted cottage cheese, cream cheese layer.
03:25 All I need right now is like a big glass of red wine
03:28 and some garlic bread and a salad.
03:31 Cheesy, meaty, saucy.
03:33 Mm, mm.
03:39 Yeah, I don't even know about just husband's delight.
03:42 This is wife's delight.
03:43 This is anybody's delight.
03:44 If you're a human, this is delightful.
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