Hamburger Stuffing Casserole (Amish Recipe)

How to Make This Amish Recipe with Ground Beef

This ground beef stuffing casserole is very easy to make and doesn't take much time.

1. You can buy bread cubes or cut your own. It doesn't take long to slice several pieces of bread into cubes - it's also a great way to use up stale bread. I like to toast my bread cubes for about ten minutes before adding the other ingredients, but that step is optional.
2. Fry the hamburger while you prepare the vegetables for the stuffing. I like to brown my butter slightly before adding the onions and celery (it adds great flavor), but that's optional too. Use a small food chopper to make prep even faster. (I use my Ninja chopper.)
3. Cook the vegetables in butter for a few minutes until softened. Beat the eggs and milk, then add them to the butter and veggies. Pour this over the bread cubes and mix everything together.
4. You can either stir the ground beef into the stuffing or layer it in your casserole dish. (This recipe fits perfectly in a small roaster.)

Use Any Ground Meat (or Skip It!)

You can make this casserole with any kind of cooked ground meat - beef, turkey, venison, sausage, or even chicken.

Just keep in mind that sausage is already seasoned, so you may want to reduce the salt a bit. And if you'd rather keep it meatless, simply make the stuffing without adding any meat.

What to Serve with Hamburger Stuffing Casserole

This dish works great as a main course with a simple salad on the side, or serve it as a hearty side dish for a larger meal.

Hamburger stuffing pairs perfectly with Amish mashed potatoes. Some other great options include Amish Scalloped Potatoes, Baked Corn, Seven-Layer Lettuce Salad, or my delicious broccoli and cauliflower salad.

Amish Casserole = A Budget-Friendly Meal

Casseroles like this one are a great way to stretch your grocery budget. Instead of serving pricey cuts of meat, dishes like Beef and Noodle Dairy Casserole, Yumasetti Casserole, Amish-style Chicken Gumbo, or Hamburger Stuffing let you create a hearty, filling meal with just a small amount of meat.

Amish families often feed large groups, and casseroles make it easier to serve everyone without using much meat. When you add noodles, rice, or in this case bread, you can have a filling meal for only a few dollars. So, if you are on a tight budget and trying to stretch the grocery money, casseroles are a cheaper option while still being delicious!

Check out my post with 23 Amish-inspired dirt cheap meals to feed a family.

Is it Ground Beef Stuffing, Filling, or Dressing?

There seems to be an ongoing debate about whether the Thanksgiving side dish made with buttery bread cubes is called stuffing, filling, or dressing. (Check out my simple bread stuffing/dressing recipe here➚.)

Typically, stuffing is what gets stuffed inside the Thanksgiving turkey. Although, whether you call it stuffing, filling, or dressing, they're probably all similar dishes that include chopped veggies and a lot of bread and butter.

But then you also have dishes such as PA Dutch potato filling. It's made with that familiar and delicious bread stuffing/filling. But the main ingredient in the dish is mashed potatoes. Therefore it's not called "Filling" but rather "Potato Filling".

In my opinion, filling, stuffing, and dressing are essentially the same. The name and recipe variations often depend on regional preference.

So this Hamburger Stuffing Casserole can just as well be called Hamburger Filling Casserole. Call it what you want. It's delicious and features those tasty, buttery bread cubes that most of us love.

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