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    Home » Recipes » Amish Casseroles

    Amish Hamburger Sandwich Casserole

    Published: Sep 17, 2021 · Updated: Sep 17, 2021 by Kevin Williams | 3 Comments

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    This Amish hamburger sandwich casserole is a classic. What it is is really a deconstructed submarine sandwich that is baked. It just checks a lot of the boxes in terms of classic Amish farmhouse style meals.

    A lot of Amish homemakers will make their own homemade pizza or spaghetti sauce. They start out with a bunch of their homegrown tomatoes, press them through a special strainer, and then process the juice, add seasonings, and store it for future use.

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    • 🙋 FAQ
    • 🍲 Hamburger Sandwich Casserole Ingredients
    • 📋 Instructions
    • 🍲 More Hearty Casseroles
    • 🖨️ Full Recipe

    My grandmother made homemade spaghetti sauce, and I loved it, but she did have a “head start" by using canned tomatoes and tomato paste. Again, it was still amazing sauce, but not quite the scratch-made sauces that you’ll find an Amish kitchens.

    Many Amish grow their own onions, and this recipe features one third of a cup of a chopped onion. Big yellow onions are favorites. But you can use any kind.

    Hamburger Sandwich Casserole


    The original recipe called for 12 slices of bread, we just couldn’t make that work in a 9 x 13 baking dish. Now, you could double layer the bread and it would give you a thicker “base" but that’s an awful a lot of bread if you’re trying to count calories or watch how much you eat. It works fine with just one layer of bread, so that’s the way I’ll keep. And, geez, for an Amish homemaker this casserole would be more labor-intensive because they'd likely use homemade bread. Most of the rest of the world reading this will just grab a bag of pre-sliced bread and throw in the slices. Homemade bread, of course, would be the ultimate best!

    🙋 FAQ

    Do the Amish ever buy store-bought bread?

    Yes. While it is true that the Amish, in general, make their own homemade bread most of the time, sometimes they hold gatherings for hundreds of people (funerals or church gatherings) and it just wouldn't be practical to bake 200 loaves of bread. So in cases like that it is not uncommon for an Amish to go to an Aldi or a thrift store to buy a dozens and dozens and dozens of loaves of bread.

    Hamburger Sandwich Casserole Meat

    We always come back to hamburger in recipes like this, most Amish will butcher their own meat. And there’s just an incredible difference, I think, between the taste of home butchered ground beef and store-bought ground beef. It’s difficult to describe the difference, but it’s definitely discernible if you’ve tasted both.

    Kind of looks funky, but the above photo is the really "good stuff", the mix of mayo, cream cheese and Italian seasoning and spread over bread.

    Top it all with cheese. Wow, cheese on top of cream cheese, this is my kind of casserole!

    Topped with cheese and hamburger and baked, this is some good stuff!

    🍲 Hamburger Sandwich Casserole Ingredients

    • 12 slices of bread
    • 1 /2 cup mayo
    • 8 ounces of cream cheese
    • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
    • 2 cups shredded cheese of your choice, divided
    • 1 pound of hamburger
    • 1 quart pizza or spaghetti sauce
    • 1 cup water
    • 1 /3 cup chopped onion

    📋 Instructions

    1. Layer bread in a 9 X 13 inch baking dish.
    2. Mix mayo, cream cheese and Italian seasoning and spread over bread.
    3. Sprinkle with one cup of cheese.
    4. Fry hamburger with onion.
    5. Season to taste then add sauce and water.
    6. Stir and spread over cheese.
    7. op with an additional 1 cup shredded cheese.
    8. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

    🍲 More Hearty Casseroles

    Three-Layer Beef Casserole

    Ham Casserole

    Amish Country Casserole

    Six-Ingredient Country Casserole

    🖨️ Full Recipe

    Amish Hamburger Sandwich Casserole

    Amish Hamburger Sandwich Casserole

    An amazingly hearty dish full of hamburger, pizza sauce, and sandwich bread, all baked!
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    Course Main Course
    Cuisine American, Amish

    Ingredients
      

    • 12 slices of bread
    • 1 /2 cup mayo
    • 8 ounces of cream cheese
    • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
    • 2 cups shredded cheese of your choice, divided
    • 1 pound hamburger
    • 1 quart pizza or spaghetti sauce
    • 1 cup water
    • ⅓ cup onion, chpped

    Instructions
     

    • Layer bread in a 9 X 13 inch baking dish.
    • Mix mayo, cream cheese and Italian seasoning and spread over bread
    • .Sprinkle with one cup of cheese
    • Fry hamburger with onion.
    • Season to taste then add sauce and water.
    • Stir and spread over cheese.
    • Top with an additional 1 cup shredded cheese.Bake at 350 for 30 minutes
    Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. SCV

      September 20, 2021 at 1:18 am

      This was good I used a French baguette sliced kind of thin and it worked out great, I really do love these recipes. Thanks for sharing them with us. Many blessings to you all.https://assets.grammarly.com/emoji/v1/1f642.svg

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      • Kevin Williams

        September 20, 2021 at 1:59 pm

        Glad you enjoyed it, the use of a baguette sounds fantastic!

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    2. Job everingham

      September 21, 2021 at 12:30 pm

      It sounds awesome

      Reply

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