Sour Cream Noodle Bake – ready in under 30 minutes! Egg noodles, hamburger, tomato sauce, cottage cheese, sour cream and cheddar cheese. Comfort food at its best! Everyone loves this easy casserole! Can make ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze for later. YUM!
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I found this recipe on allrecipes.com and thought it sounded like a good way to use up the extra egg noodles I had from the Cheesy Chicken Casserole. It didn’t take long to make, and it tasted delicious. It was creamy, cheesy, and all-around yummy! Chicken Legs especially loved this. He has requested it again next week. I thought it tasted like a cross between lasagna and the Spasagna I made a while back. Either way, we both really enjoyed this.
How to Make Sour Cream Noodle Bake
This casserole is super easy to make. Start with cooking the egg noodles. While the noodles cook, brown some ground beef. Add pepper, garlic salt, and tomato sauce. Mix together the cooked noodles with cottage cheese and sour cream. Spread the noodles in a baking dish. Top with the meat sauce and shredded cheddar cheese. Pop it in the oven and bake.
- Can I make Sour Cream Noodle Bake in advance? Yes! You can assemble the casserole ahead of time and refrigerate until ready to bake.
- Can I freeze Sour Cream Noodle Casserole? Yes! You can assemble the casserole and freeze for later. To bake the casserole after freezing, thaw completely and bake as directed below.
- You can substitute ground turkey for the ground beef.
- Feel free to add onion and bell pepper to the meat sauce.
- What can I substitute for cottage cheese? This dish is wonderful with cottage cheese. I urge you to try it. If you just can’t do it, you can try substituting ricotta cheese.
- Can use any cheese you prefer – Mexican cheese blend, Italian cheese blend, Pepper Jack, Monterey Jack, Colby.
- You can double the recipe for a crowd and bake in a 9×13-inch baking dish. The cooking time will stay the same.
What to Serve with Beef Noodle Casserole
This Sour Cream Noodle Bake is a weeknight favorite at our house. It is so simple and tastes great! We like to serve this casserole with some green beans and rolls. Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the blog that go great with this quick casserole:
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Sour Cream Noodle Bake
Ingredients:
- 1 (8-oz) package wide egg noodles
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- ⅛ tsp ground black pepper
- ½ tsp garlic salt
- 1 (8-oz) can tomato sauce
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Cook noodles according to package directions. Drain and set aside.
- Brown meat; drain off fat and return to skillet. Add pepper, garlic salt and tomato sauce. Stir and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Mix together cottage cheese, sour cream, and noodles.
- Lightly spray a 9×9 casserole dish with cooking spray. Spread noodle mixture in bottom of pan. Top noodles with meat sauce. Sprinkle cheese on top of casserole and bake for 20-25 minutes.
Notes:
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I love your blog, too! LOVE LOVE LOVE your recipes. Just made six of them (w/few modifications for my brother and sister in law, no dairy, to beef) they were FANTASTIC!!!!Thank you so much! Please keep up the great blog. P.s. no problems here either.
Very good recipe. The only things I changed was to double the tomato sauce, add onion and 1 tsp. of sugar. Will be making this again!!
Loved this. Hubby said I could make it again so I'm sure I will!
This was SO good! Was in a bind to use some ingredients in my fridge and this was just the recipe I needed. My 1 year old LOVED it! Thanks for always coming through with great recipes!
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Sherry – I don't like cold cottage cheese either, but it is great baked in dishes. If you don't like the curds, you can blend it in the food processor.
If you still don't want to give it a try, you can substitute ricotta or double the sour cream.
Austie – LOL! I'm so glad it was a hit.
We don't like cottage cheese. What would you substitute for it? Thanks.
Okay… I'm reporting in! I made it today for lunch for my kiddos! And I quote: "MOM! FINALLY you made something we like!" lol I make good stuff all the time, of COURSE, but this really appealed to their kid palates. 🙂
Cheryl – sounds great! I am going to try it next week. Thanks for sharing!
Made this yesterday. I thought it was good. It is similar to my mom's Hamburger Noodle Bake recipe which I think I like better because while eating this dish, I was missing the scallions and the cream cheese that is in my mom's recipe:
HAMBURGER NOODLE BAKE
1 pound hamburger
1 clove garlic (or garlic salt to taste)
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
2 (8 oz) cans of tomato sauce
1 cup sour cream
1 (3 oz) package of cream cheese
4 to 6 scallions
1 (8 oz) package of egg noodle
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
Fry hamburger till brown; drain fat. Chop garlic until fine and mix with salt, pepper, sugar, and tomato sauce. Add to meat; cover and cook slowly 15-20 min. In a bowl mix the sour cream, cream cheese, and chopped scallions. Cook noodles according to package; drain. Mix everything together and pour in the dish; sprinkle over the cheddar cheese. Bake for 20 min in preheated oven at 350. (Instead of mixing everything together, you can also layer. Noodles, cream cheese mixture, meat sauces; and repeat.)
This looks good! I think it will be on our dinner table this evening! Thank you!
Another amazing dish. This was today's dinner. My family raved over it and seconds were issued out as well. Hopes theres some left for the hubby:)
THANK YOU for this! My boyfriend is a huge pasta fan, so this went over really well with him. He said it may very well be his favourite thing that I make. I put green peppers and onions into the meat sauce too, which gave us some veggies and crunch! DELISH. love it, will make again, many times. Can so easily be made vegetarian, too!
This is one of my favorite recipes! I make it with ground turkey & light sour cream & cottage cheese to make it low-cal! I also use the basil, garlic & oregano tomato sauce, and use 2 cans rather than one! We like it a little saucy. We call it our low-fat lasagna! It satisfies that craving, while keeping your calories in check! 🙂
I made this tonight and it was HUGE hit with my whole family! My husband and I, 2 teenage daughters and 9 year old son. Thank you!
I grew up eating. Its definately comfort food for me! My mom and grandma always called it lasagna. Lol
Toni – I can't wait to try the cream cheese version! Sounds yummy!
I make something like this. I use cream cheese instead of cottage cheese and it is amazing. Use a block of cream cheese and 8 oz of sour cream. Sometimes I use a little more sour cream but still amazing!
Lisa – I think you could do cream cheese instead of cottage cheese.
What about cream cheese in place of the cottage cheese?
Walkerfam00 – I am so glad to hear this!! This is exactly why I started the blog. I was tired of eating the same thing all the time and needed some variety.
You made my day!
I have been following your blog for about a year now, and I just wanted to tell you that a Plain Chicken recipe is on the table at my house at least twice a week! I used to get so tired of cooking the same things over and over– your blog has remedied that for me! Thanks for all the great recipes!
I made this last night and what a hit. I just blogged about it today. Come by and check it out.
I'm making this now. I hope it turns out to be as good as it looks.
This recipe looks delicious! Your photos are so clear and amazing; I feel like I could reach right in, grab a fork and dig in…I wish I could! 🙂
I have never had issues with your page or Pin either. By the way this sounds so good, simple, fasy and yummy.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blog! You now have your own page on my Pinterest & my family is loving the food! Thanks again & keep sharing your great ideas & recipes!
Kristen – I think this would freeze fine. Just bake it covered for about 15-20 minutes and then uncover it and bake an additional 20-25 minutes.
How do you think this would freeze? If well, how long would you bake it? thanks!
Shana – you are awesome! Thanks for the comment. I am so glad to hear that I have lots of friends in Greensboro!
I got a bunch of people at work obsessing on PC as well… I can't keep up with all the dishes I want to try! We're loving you here in So. Cal!
Just wanted you to know that my friends and I LOVE your blog. Anytime I bring a dish somewhere and someone asks where I got the recipe, I always say, "Plain Chicken." Then that person starts following you. We are obsessed here in North Carolina (Greensboro Area). I don't know if you can keep track of all of us, but you are well loved here in these parts. Just thought you'd like to know!
Leigh – you could substitute ricotta for the cottage cheese.
I haven't had any issues with the blog. I've run scans and there aren't any viruses or malware on it. I don't have any issues on my work computer either.
Amanda this is happening to me also. I hate it because I love following this blog 🙂
this looks delicious! I love your recipes.
Just an FYI, not sure if this happens to anyone else. Any time I open your page, it loads for a minute then skips to some virus download thing. And any time I pin something from your site, pinterest claims the site looks like a virus. It's done this on 2 computers for me. Again, not sure if anyone else has had it happen.
This looks so good! One question, do you think there's a way to make it without cottage cheese?
I was wondering if I could use cream cheese in place of the cottage cheese.
I luv these kind of casseroles. Looks good!
I love hotdish recipes and it looks so good. Love your blog!