59 Casserole Recipes for Creamy Comfort With Crispy Edges
Casserole recipes areextremelyimportant for cold weather for quite a few reasons. First, they’re delicious. Second, they’re a great way tocut down on dishes, because they’re usually served in the same dish you cook them in—and who doesn’t love aone-dish dinner? Third, easy casseroles were invented pretty much as busy weeknight dinners when you wanted a lot of flavor but not a lot of fuss. We could keep going, but you get the point.
To clarify, when we say casseroles, we primarily mean the traditional one-pan wonders with crispy things on top (the one you’re picturing in your head right now), but we also mean lasagna,macaroni and cheeseand otherpasta casseroles, gratins,breakfast casseroles, shepherd’s pies, tater tot casseroles, and more. They’re guaranteed crowd-pleasers and ideal if you’re hosting brunch, attending a potluck, or planningweeknight dinnersfor the whole family. Casseroles are the epitome of comfort, so we rounded up our favorite easy casserole recipes for you. Behold, the best casserole recipes we’ve got. And a happy casserole season to you and yours!
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Bill Clark1/59Mississippi Corn Casserole
You can think of this corn casserole recipe as acornbreadlover’s hedonist fever dream. This Mississippi-born version from chef Elle Simone Scott calls for adding cheddar cheese to the mixing bowl and topping the dish with crushed butter crackers before baking for a cheesy, crispy holiday-worthy recipe you won’t soon forget.
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Photo by Charles Masters, Food Styling by Suzanne Lenzer3/59Our Favorite Lasagna With Sausage, Spinach, and Three Cheeses
This extra-cheesy dinner recipe is easy enough for a weeknight dinner, but fancy enough for a special occasion. It's acompilationof all the greatest lasagna recipes in the Epi archives.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Ali Nardi4/59Green Bean Casserole With Crispy Fried Onions
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich6/59Vegan Roasted Garlic–Potato Enchiladas
Double the saucefor this intensely savory vegan take on Mexican enchiladas and you’ll have enough to make avegan rendition of menudoa few days (or months, if you freeze it) later.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Kaitlin Wayne7/59Our Favorite Mac and Cheese
Creamy homemade macaroni and cheese is the ultimatecomfort food; it’s a perfect meatless main for the whole family (what’s more kid-friendly than macaroni and cheese?) and a wildly popular side dish at any cookout.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka, Food Styling by Kat Boytsova8/59Cowboy Breakfast Casserole With Sausage and Spinach
组装这个简单的鸡蛋锅镶嵌着很多of crumbled sausage and cheese the night before you plan to serve it. Then, put it in the oven (straight from the fridge) the next morning for a quick and casualbrunchdish.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Judy Haubert9/59Cheesy Hash Brown Casserole
This supremely cheesy dish of shredded (frozen!) potatoes and onions might remind you of yourfavorite roadside eatery. You’ll be very glad to learn that you can put it on your table whenever you want.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Kaitlin Wayne11/59Simple Bread Pudding With Melted Ice Cream Sauce
This straightforward bread pudding recipe gets aneven easier sauce, which is made simply by leaving out (or microwaving) a pint of store-bought ice cream. Easy peasy.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell13/59Sheet-Pan Pasta Bake With Chicken and Kale
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Kaitlin Wayne14/59Baked Rigatoni With Red Peppers and Green Olives
The sauce in this baked pasta recipe is bulked up with jarred red peppers and green olives. It’s a vegetarian casserole, but if you wanted to toss in some cookedmeatballs, the dish would welcome the addition.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Pearl Jones15/59West Indies Shepherd’s Pie
This shepherd’s pie uses ground chicken and leans toward warming flavors, incorporating bright bursts of the tropics—ginger, habanero chile, lime—as well as aromaticAngostura bitters.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Pearl Jones16/59One-Skillet Orzo With Tomatoes and Eggs
Pizza meets eggs in purgatory in this one-pan pasta casserole recipe. It’s punchy from the tomato sauce, creamy from starchy orzo and melty mozzarella, andready in under an hour.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Ali Nardi17/59Cheesy Potato and Kale Gratin With Rye Croutons
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Prop Styling by Anne Eastman, Food Styling by John Bjostad18/59Crème Brûlée French Toast Casserole
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Micah Marie Morton19/59Chicken and Potato Gratin With Brown Butter Cream
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Photo and Food Styling by Anna Stockwell20/59Spicy Tomato–Tuna Noodle Skillet Casserole With Aioli
This revampedtuna noodle casseroleis homey, bright, andpantry-friendly. You’ll toast dry pasta in oil until golden brown before cooking it in the tomato sauce.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Nathaniel James, Food Styling by Frances Boswell21/59Manicotti
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Photo by Waterbury Publications, Inc.23/59Blissed-Out Crispy Cheesy Broccoli Gratin
When you cook broccoli gratin on a sheet pan, every single morsel gets an ample coating of crunch. Try it with added sliced bell peppers orjarred artichokesfor even more flavor.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Nathaniel James, Food Styling by Anna Hampton24/59Turkey Tetrazzini
Turkey tetrazzini is a classic use of leftoverThanksgiving turkey—and it may well be the only casserole named for anItalian opera star.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Astrid Chastka, Food Styling by Anna Hampton25/593-Ingredient Sweet Potato Casserole With Maple Pecans
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka, Food Styling by Olivia Mack Anderson26/59Parmesan-Roasted Butternut Squash
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Photo by Andrew Purcell, Food Styling by Carrie Purcell27/59Cauliflower Gratin
A combination of cauliflower and cabbage mingles in this soufflé-like vegetable gratin which islighter than mostcasseroles, but no less warm and comforting.
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Christopher Barsch28/59French Onion Breakfast Strata
There’s little we love more than a breakfast casserole, and this one is whereFrench onion dip meets savory bread pudding. It’s a perfect make-ahead, crowd-pleasing brunch headliner.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Anna Surbatovich, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell29/59Cheesy Baked Pasta Casserole
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Anna Hampton30/59Potato, Leek, and Pea Pot Pie With Spinach-Arugula Salad
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Rhoda Boone32/59Croque Madame Casserole With Ham and Gruyère
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Photo by Yunhee Kim34/59Shepherd’s Pie
With its mashed potato topping and the rich ground lamb filling, this crock ofBritish comfortis about as textbook hearty as it gets. It's also an ideal way to warm up the whole family this winter.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell36/59Cauliflower "Mac 'n' Cheese" Casserole
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell37/59Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Skillet
This easy, soul-warming chicken enchilada casserole starts with shredded rotisserie chicken, a jar of salsa, and a can ofblack beans.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Astrid Chastka, Food Styling by Olivia Mack Anderson38/59Bacon and Egg Casserole
This make-ahead casserole is almost too pretty for its own good. Halved boiled eggs peak from underneath a faux lattice top made from strips offrozen puff pastry.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Ali Nardi39/59Sweet Potato Casserole With Graham Cracker Streusel
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Katherine Sacks40/59Cheesy Delicata Squash and Kale Casserole
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka, Food Styling by Olivia Mack Anderson41/59Butternut Squash and Creamed-Spinach Gratin
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Photo by Molly Yeh42/59Chicken Pot Tot Hotdish
This iconic Midwestern dish is like a hybridchicken pot pieand tater tot casserole: think creamy chicken with a sauce made from scratch (no store-bought mushroom soup here) and a crunchy potato topping. It’s just hard to imagine what else you could possibly want from a casserole recipe.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Ali Nardi44/59Microwave Lasagna With Spinach, Mushrooms, and Three Cheeses
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Photo by Joseph De Leo, Prop Styling by Sophie Strangio, Food Styling by Monica Pierini45/59Cheesy Baked Butternut Squash Polenta
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Photo by Nicole Franzen47/59Creamy Vegan Mushroom Lasagna
Using store-bought tomato sauce cuts down on the prep work for this hearty lasagna, while blitzing cashews withvegetable brothturns out a sauce so creamy and delicious you may have trouble believing it's entirely vegan (but it is, we promise).
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52/59Old-Fashioned Scalloped Potatoes
This cheesy scalloped potatoes recipe is a classic side dish fromGourmet, simply made with softened onions, an easy roux, cheddar cheese, and thinly sliced potatoes.
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Beth Moncel55/59Southwest Veggie and Rice Casserole
In this Tex-Mex-inspired casserole, a base of spiced tomato-infused rice provides an ultra-flavorful base to build upon. Cheddar cheese and a mélange of vegetables bring texture to the mix. For even more crunch, crush sometortilla chipsover the top and call it taco casserole—a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
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Cristian Barnett58/59Croissant Bread and Butter Pudding
Classic bread puddingis a favorite, for sure—but have you ever tried subbing the usual slices of bread with flaky, many-layered croissants? The results are incredible.
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