Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole
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This recipe has been made in our family in the oven for years, so I thought I should give it a try in the crock pot! So I give you my Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole. You can thank me later. ๐
How to Make Hamburger Casserole in a Slow Cooker
Aunt Lou here.
This is seriously one of my FAVORITE childhood recipes. I would have been happy if momma would have made this every week. It is also one of the first meals I mastered when I started to try and cook.
Momma always made this in the oven. I usually make it in the oven too. It is a smaller portion, though, and we always seem to want more leftovers from this one. So, since ya’ll know I love my crock pots, I couldn’t help but try it out as a crock pot meal. And by golly, it worked! Woohoo!
I hope you guys enjoy this delicious and simple meal as much as we do. It is actually one of the first things I made for Michael. He fell in love with it, and my hubs is the epitome of the saying, “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach!” ๐
Ingredients for Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole
3 lbs ground beef
1/4 cup minced dried onion
3 pkgs 1 oz gravy mix
2 1/2 cups water
2 cans 7.5 oz biscuits
Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole Notes
- I made this Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole in my 9 x13 casserole slow cooker made by Crock Pot. It was perfect for spreading everything out. If you don’t have one, you can use a 6-quart slow cooker.
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“Our whole Family loves this recipe!”
-Phillip
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Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole
Ingredients
- 3 lbs ground beef
- 1/4 cup minced dried onion
- 3 oz gravy mix
- 2.5 cup water
- 15 oz biscuits refrigerated cans
Instructions
- Put your ground beef and minced onion in a skillet over medium-high heat, brown and drain
- Spray your crock pot with cooking spray
- Spread your browned ground beef and onion mixture evenly across the bottom of your crock pot
- Mix together your gravy mixes and water
- Pour over ground beef
- Place your biscuits on top
- Take 6-8 paper towels and put under your lid when you place it on your crock pot (to keep the condensation off of your biscuits)
- Cook on low for 4-5 hours
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Notes
- I made this Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole in myย 9 x13 casserole slow cooker made by Crock Pot. It was perfect for spreading everything out. If you don’t have one, you can use a 6-quart slow cooker.
- Looking for more recipes? Ourย Recipe Finderย can help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks,ย slowย cookers and low carb essentials in ourย Amazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts andย nutritionalย information varies greatly. As a result, yourย nutritionalย content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.ย The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- Allย slowย cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes shouldย always be tested first in your ownย slowย cookerย and time adjusted as needed.
Nutrition
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This was absolutely delicious! I added Monterey Jack cheese, and subbed 3 oz gravy for onion soup mix. I think I will add corn next time. I will be adding this to the rotation.
This sound so easy and delicious I’m thinking when I make it I might add some mixed vegatables. Do you think that would change the cooking time ?
I haven’t tried this with adding mixed vegetables, but think it could work. Are you wanting to add canned, fresh or frozen? If canned or frozen, I think the cooking time should stay the same. If you want to use fresh veggies, it will depend on what you use and their size. If you give it a try, let me know how it goes!
This was so good! My husband said to add this to his list of favorites! I used the big, fluffy biscuits and it took forever, next time I will cut them into smaller pieces.
I’m so glad you and your husband enjoy this recipe Carolyn! That’s a good idea if you want to use larger biscuits! I used the smaller ones, so they don’t take quite as long as the larger ones, but cutting the larger ones is a great way to make it work!
Our whole Family loves this recipe !
I’m so glad to hear it Phillip! I love when our readers tell us about their successes, especially when it is one of my childhood favorite recipes that I have converted to a crock pot recipe!
~Aunt Lou
Loved this recipe…..Easy to make and OH so good…..
I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe Barbara! Thanks for letting me know! We love hearing success stories from our readers!
~Aunt Lou
Hi aunt Lou, I was wondering if you could change the color on the print recipe from red to white and just leave the letters in red or black or a color? I use your recipes all the time and usually print them out when making them. The red color takes so much ink. It drains my cartridge. Iโm not complaining because it does look nice and colorful it just takes up so much ink to print your recipes. Thank in advance if you can make this change.
Hi Debbie!
If you use the print button on the recipe card (it is the far left button on the red part of the recipe card), that will take the red off of the printed version. Hope this helps!
~Aunt Lou
The Crock Taco Soup was terrible. I had to add 2 teaspoon kosher salt, rotel chili, and a can of hot dog sauce and a cup of beef broth to make it taste good. Shouldn’t all the recipes have ‘SEASON TO TASTE” I would love to try the Hamburger Casserole but using # lbs of ground meat, that is fifteen dollars worth of meat to experiment.
I’m sorry you didn’t like the Taco Soup Brenda. We always encourage our readers to take recipes and make them fit their own tastes, so feel free to season to taste with any recipe! You can change the amount of servings on a recipe if you want to make smaller portions. Here is a link to a video that will show you how!
https://youtu.be/CrhHnlEGiG0
Enjoy!
Aunt Lou
I made (what I call) Hungry Jack casserole last night, very much like this but it has bbq sauce and cheese in the recipe. My son said it would be perfect without the bbq sauce and the cheese! lol…so he asked for a casserole with just the meat and biscuits. This will be his new favorite, I can tell already. Thanks for the idea!
What can be done for gluten free biscuits ??
I also thought I rather oven bake this one, but I can’t get the link to work. Could you just type in the directions for that version, please!
I cannot get the link to work for the oven version of your Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole?
Could I please get it e-mailed to me?
Thank You
Hi Joyce!
This link will give you the oven recipes: https://www.recipesthatcrock.com/hamburger-casserole-oven-recipe/
Aunt Lou
What kind of gravy mix?
Hi Layne!
It is a brown gravy mix. Enjoy!
Aunt Lou
Ooohh, this sounds SO good!! The link to the oven recipe isn’t working. If I were to bake this what temp would I use and for how long? And what type of biscuits, the popping tube type?
Thanks for sharing! ๐
Hi Stacy!
Sorry the link was down earlier! It should work now, but if not, here you go: http://www.muchadoaboutlou.com/2014/05/50-challenge-how-many-meals-can-i-make.html Enjoy!
Aunt Lou
Hi Stacy!
This link will give you the oven recipes: https://www.recipesthatcrock.com/hamburger-casserole-oven-recipe/
Aunt Lou
What kind of biscuits do you use?
Hi Dean!
I just used two tubes of the regular size biscuits. Enjoy!
Aunt Lou
Can you email me the oven version of your Crock Pot Hamburger Casserole? I have a small family and that version might work better for me.
Thanks so much!
Hi Kathy,
You can find the oven recipe here: http://www.muchadoaboutlou.com/2014/05/50-challenge-how-many-meals-can-i-make.html Enjoy!
Aunt Lou
Hi Kathy!
This link will give you the oven recipes: https://www.recipesthatcrock.com/hamburger-casserole-oven-recipe/
Aunt Lou