Cherokee Casserole

Total Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup long-grain rice, cooked
• 1 (15 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup (no added liquid)
• 1 lb ground beef, round or sirloin
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1/2 small bay leaf
• 1/8 teaspoon oregano
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/8 teaspoon cumin
• 12 green olives, chopped
• 3 ounces grated cheddar cheese
• salt, pepper to taste

Recipe

• 1 cook rice per normal cooking instructions.
• 2 while rice cooks, brown meat and cook onions until tender.
• 3 drain excess fat from meat.
• 4 combine meat and onions in skillet, and add crushed tomatoes, mushroom soup, bay leaf, oregano, garlic powder, cumin, salt, pepper, olives.
• 5 simmer together in skillet until rice is finished cooking.
• 6 add rice, and mix all ingredients well.
• 7 top casserole with cheese until melted.