Dirty Rice Casserole

I honestly don’t know the name of this recipe - I made this name up – my brother and his (girl)friend found this one and made this a while back and shared the recipe with us.  It is one of my kids top favorites. Audrey, who eats like a bird had two large servings and Will had three (at the same meal).  Woah.  To say they loved it was an understatement.  We like it too – it is easy, fast and really doesn’t require any sides… to make it more “grown up” we added a side salad and called it dinner. Your family will love this one – trust me!!

*The best way for me to describe the flavor is when you have roast rice and gravy and you mix it all up on your plate and stuff it in a roll.. Am I the only one who used to do this?? :)

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground meat
• 1 pkg Lipton beefy onion soup mix (comes 2 in a box- save the other for next time!)
• 1 pkg brown gravy mix
• 3 cups rice (COOKED) *So that means 1.5 cups rice uncooked
• 1 can creamed corn
• 1 can regular whole kernel corn (DRAINED)
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 pkgs crescent rolls

Start with cooking the rice – I always cook a bit extra just in case I need to stretch this a bit further – rice is a great way to do it. 

Preheat oven to 375

Unroll the crescent rolls to make one flat layer on the bottom of a 9x13” casserole dish

Bake them just enough to see them firming up a bit but not yet browning – about 1/2 way done.  Set aside

Brown the ground meat, drain (Get a large pot or very deep skillet – since you will add everything in this pot)

Then, to the ground meat : add 1/2 cup water, brown gravy mix, Lipton beefy onion soup mix (1 pkg),  cream corn, regular (DRAINED) corn and mix thoroughly until the rice is finished cooking.  leave it on a very low temp.

Once rice is ready, add as much rice as you would like to the meat/corn mixture.  I feel like I add about 3 cups. Stir well.

Place mixture on top of the pre-baked crescent rolls, spread evenly, top with remaining container of crescent rolls – in the same way you did the bottom, unroll them to have a flat layer – may be patchy

bake until crescent rolls are golden brown – keep an eye on it!

*If you want to decrease the crescent roll content.. just do one pkg on the top layer instead of top and bottom.

My kids devoured it. I hope yours will too!