Healthy Hamburger Casserole

Total Time: 46 mins Preparation Time: 1 min Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups of uncooked brown rice
• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 teaspoon garlic
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 (4 ounce) can sliced mixed mushrooms, chopped
• 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can campbell's cream of mushroom soup, healthy requests undiluted
• 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can campbell's cream of chicken soup, healthy requests-undiluted
• cayenne pepper (to taste)
• tony chachere's spice n' herbs seasoning (to taste)

Recipe

• 1 soak rice in 3 cups of water for 1 hr in rice pot, then cook rice.
• 2 brown, rinse, and drain ground beef – return to pot.
• 3 season ground beef.
• 4 sautee onions, celery, and garlic with seasoned ground beef.
• 5 add mushrooms, cream of mushroom soup, cream of chicken soup, and ¼ cup of water to pot – mix well.
• 6 add rice to the pot – fold in (don’t stir or you will break up the rice).
• 7 place rice mixture in casserole dish.
• 8 bake at 325 (convect) for 45 min
• 9 if you don’t have a convection oven – bake at 325 for 1 hour.