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Our 21 Best Casserole Recipes

By Food & Wine

Updated January 14, 2019

From classics like corn bread casserole to a layered gratin with potatoes and noodles, these dishes are perfect when looking for easy yet comforting weeknight dinner ideas.

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Tomato, Chard, And Gruyère Casserole

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This giant Provençal casserole is called a panade. It’s a gooey, crispy meal-in-one.

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Cheesy Grits Casserole

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Clothing designer Billy Reid says, "Folks in the South start eating grits young. You learn to love them as a kid and it never goes away." Using old-fashioned, stone-ground grits gives the casserole a better texture and flavor than quick cooking grits.

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Corn Bread Casserole

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Corn bread casseroles are a too-busy cook's dream. A handful of pantry staples--frozen and canned corn, corn muffin mix, butter, sour cream and an egg--are baked into something delicious and comforting. We jazz ours up with shredded cheddar and sliced scallions. You can keep it classic and skip the mix-ins, or you can add whatever you have on hand.

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Lemony Crêpe Casserole

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Reminiscent of a classic bread pudding, this sweet-tart crêpe casserole has a beautiful lacy top and tender-but-sliceable center.

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Mashed-Potato Casserole with Sage and Fontina

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To take mashed potatoes up a few notches, cookbook author Melissa Clark mashes them with a creamy, tangy mix of creme fraiche, butter, parsley and sage, then tops them with cheesy breadcrumbs and bakes until crisp.

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Mashed Potato Casserole with Pulled Chicken and Crispy Bacon

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This recipe featuring mashed potatoes, pulled chicken and crispy bacon yields comfort food at its best.

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Macaroni-and-Beef Casserole

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This hearty cumin-scented casserole has an irresistible cheesy-crisp topping.

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Green Bean Casserole with Cremini Mushroom Sauce

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Pizzoccheri Gratin

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In Northern Italy, pizzoccheri are short, flat buckwheat noodles cooked with cabbage and potatoes and layered with cheese. For his version, Jonathon Sawyer cuts fresh lasagna sheets into noodles (buckwheat noodles can be hard to find) and bakes them in a gratin dish with a crispy bread crumb topping.

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Cuban Beef Casserole with Corn-Scallion Biscuit Topping

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Inspired by a Cuban picadillo, this recipe perfectly balances savory and sweet with warm aromatic spices, sweet raisins and tangy green olives.

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Skillet Chicken-and-Mushroom Potpie

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Grace Parisi proves that making potpie doesn’t have to take a long time with this one-skillet version, prepared with store-bought rotisserie chicken and—her stroke of brilliance—buttered white bread in place of the usual labor-intensive puff pastry crust.

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Creamy Tuna Noodle Cazuela

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Jarred piquillo peppers and imported canned tuna from Spain add an Iberian twist to the classic American tuna casserole, making it more elegant but keeping it as simple and quick as the original.

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Southern Baked Chicken Casserole

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This is a slightly modernized take on the very traditional Southern chicken casserole Jennifer Nettles’s mother likes to make. The recipe swaps out the usual canned cream of chicken soup in favor of a quick white sauce. A dash of hot sauce is the perfect finish.

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Shepherd’s Pie

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This pairing of chopped lamb with a mashed-potato topping is one of the most beloved British classics. Chef Tom Aikens infuses milk and cream with fresh herbs before folding them into the potatoes to make the dish especially luxurious.

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Fusilli with Three Cheeses and Red Bell Pepper

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Macaroni and cheese goes upscale with fontina, mozzarella, and Parmesan. This particular combination provides plenty of flavor and meltability, but don’t limit yourself to our selection: Make your own trio from the cheeses you have on hand.

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Custardy Baked Orzo with Spinach, Bacon and Feta

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Few Americans eat pasta for breakfast, but this Greek-inspired recipe with orzo, leeks and bacon aims to make a few converts.

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Baked Butternut Squash-and-Cheese Polenta

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Anna Thomas’s 1970s book, The Vegetarian Epicure, is iconic; updated in the 90s and rechristened The New Vegetarian Epicure, it focuses on recipes for entertaining. One of her latest dishes is this crusty baked polenta, swirled with mashed butternut squash and smoked Gouda cheese.

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Canadian Bacon, Potato, and Swiss-Chard Gratin

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Grated Gruyère cheese melts among ribbons of leafy Swiss chard and slices of Canadian bacon and potato. The dish bakes until the cheese on top is a crusty golden brown.

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Beef-and-Vegetable Potpie with Cheddar Biscuits

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“I have a hard time getting excited by beef,” Kristin Kimball confesses. “Steak bores me, and roasts can come out dry. We do a lot of ground meat, and I get tired of coming up with new ideas for it.” This luscious potpie—with its buttery cheddar crust and filling mixed with parsnips, carrots and peas—would be a perfect addition to her repertoire.

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Baked Orecchiette with Pork Sugo

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In Italian cuisine, a sugo is a gravy or sauce. Here, Ethan Stowell prepares a pork sugo by braising pork shoulder until it almost falls apart, shredding it in a food processor and mixing it with a red-wine-and-tomato sauce; then he bakes it with orecchiette under a topping of Parmigiano cheese until crispy. The dish is an excellent alternative to the usual baked pasta, because it’s not as heavy and cheesy but still delicious and satisfying.

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Baked Eggs with Chorizo and Potatoes

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Breakfast Casserole: Chef David Kinch loves to say that this hearty combination of crumbled chorizo, chunks of crispy potatoes and eggs—all cooked together in a big cast-iron skillet—is his Mexican-Californian twist on rösti, the classic Swiss fried-potato breakfast.

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Tomato, Chard, And Gruyère Casserole

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Cheesy Grits Casserole

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Corn Bread Casserole

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Lemony Crêpe Casserole

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Mashed-Potato Casserole with Sage and Fontina

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Mashed Potato Casserole with Pulled Chicken and Crispy Bacon

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Macaroni-and-Beef Casserole

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Green Bean Casserole with Cremini Mushroom Sauce

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Pizzoccheri Gratin

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Cuban Beef Casserole with Corn-Scallion Biscuit Topping

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Skillet Chicken-and-Mushroom Potpie

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Creamy Tuna Noodle Cazuela

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Southern Baked Chicken Casserole

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Shepherd’s Pie

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Fusilli with Three Cheeses and Red Bell Pepper

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Custardy Baked Orzo with Spinach, Bacon and Feta

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Baked Butternut Squash-and-Cheese Polenta

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Canadian Bacon, Potato, and Swiss-Chard Gratin

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Beef-and-Vegetable Potpie with Cheddar Biscuits

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Baked Orecchiette with Pork Sugo

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Baked Eggs with Chorizo and Potatoes

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