This recipe for schezuan eggplant is a wonderful meat and veggie dish. Folks who love spicy food will approve. This dish comes from my Chinese mum, who makes the best food ever. To suit your preferences, change the amount of chili sauce. Serve with warm rice.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 50 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 1 9×13-inch casserole |
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 2 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 (8 ounce) package egg noodles
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 large white onion, diced
- ½ cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese, or more to taste
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease.
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- Mix tomato sauce, sugar, garlic salt, and salt into the ground beef; simmer until flavors blend, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat, cover the skillet, and cool to room temperature.
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- While the sauce is cooking, bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook egg noodles in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, 7 to 9 minutes. Drain.
- While the egg noodles are cooking, preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch casserole dish.
- Mix sour cream, cream cheese, and onion together in a bowl.
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- Layer 1/2 of the egg noodles into the prepared casserole dish. Top with 1/2 of the sour cream mixture, then 1/2 of the ground beef mixture. Repeat layers once more. Sprinkle Cheddar cheese over top.
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- Bake in the preheated oven until cheese is melted and golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
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Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 519 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 39 g |
| Cholesterol | 120 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 25 g |
| Saturated Fat | 15 g |
| Sodium | 1597 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 30 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Delicious and so easy to make!
I loved this! I altered the recipe. I skipped the layering and mixed it all together. I used penne noodles, instead of egg noodles. Also I used a can of diced tomatoes in place of a can of sauce. I added chilies and peppers. It’s super quick to make.
Very good. Wonder how it would do using marinara sauce?
This was a pass along recipe from a dear friend, Marie Barron. Her version mixed chopped green onion into the cream cheese. This time I added a little kick to the meat sauce with Chicago steak seasoning, a little onion and a few fire roasted peppers. Easy Peasy!
First of all we liked this and my 11 year old said we should make it again! But… Dum Dum alert! In the midst of trying to make dinner and help my son with math homework (0 stars for new math!) I thought I was using the sprinkle side of the garlic salt but it was the POUR side. I put a TON of garlic salt in the sauce. I ended up adding more tomato sauce and a little extra cream cheese to help drown it out. I sautéed the onions with the meat and added a dash of worcestershire sauce. I also used an Italian cheese blend instead of cheddar. While I definitely do not recommend adding as much garlic salt as I did, I highly recommend adding more than the recipe calls for and some oregano or Italian seasoning for flavor.
I used half the recommended canned tomato sauce and cooked the meat until the sauce thickened so that the casserole wouldn’t be too soupy. The result was actually quite nice as no flavor dominated.
Ok, I made it exactly as it goes. The only thing I did different was doubled everything to feed more people and get more opinions of it. Plus, I added shredded mozzarella to the chedder. Now, the onions did come out just a little crunchy rather than soft, but I LOVE ONIONS and as far as we’re concerned, it was PERFECT the way the onions came out. For those that gave it a poor rating due to the onions, cook your onions with the beef, use oinion powder or don’t use onion at all. We loved it the way it came out! Aside from that, you can substitute the sour cream or cream cheese however you want. That will just make it a different recipe. However, for this recipe, it’s great! It did almost remind me of a goulash, but I love a well-seasoned goulash. As far as I’m concerned, Grandma did a really good job on this one. 😉
I love old family recipes. Good food and good memories. Thank you for sharing. Loved as written (dishes and all!)
It’s good Egg noodle Lasagna! Made this using the ‘lighter’ version. Greek yogurt for sour cream, pureed cottage cheese for cream cheese added a little onion powder with diced onions in mixture. Used turkey burger with 2tsp Worcestershire. Did not wait or the burger to cool before adding onto noodles. Will make again and add spinach or mushrooms.
I cooked it as is and added garlic instead of garlic salt. It came out perfect! A very good casserole and I froze 2 pieces for later. Of course they are gone too! Simple and easy to make. Will be making it again!
I thinks it’s good but, I would sweat the onions, then add to cream cheese. Nothing kills a creamy gooey casserole like crunching into a raw onion, YUCK. The one that suggested the chili powder was right-on. That was a nice touch. The casserole was good. Had it with red wine, yummy.
You need to update your prep time estimate. Between cooking the meat, gathering the ingredients, chopping the onion and simmering time, this recipe takes longer than 10 minutes of prep time. More like 30 to 40 minutes. Tastes good but frustrating when the times are wrong.
My husband and I loved it!
The sour cream and cream cheese with raw onions is absolutely disgusting. Do not recommend not even my worst enemy.
I added some chili powder and onion powder to the recipe and it came out great!
Just like my grandmother use to make. I changed nothing in the recipe and the family loved it. Thank you for sharing this recipe and bringing back so many memories of my grandparents. Was a go to when we stayed overnight with them.
This is really lame and boring – even tried adding a few extras after pulling it from the oven and trying it. My wife and I couldn’t work through more than a third of it. Tossed most of it.
Nope. This was not good. It was actually weird in flavor/texture. Hubby wanted beef stroganoff, didn’t have all ingredients, but found this – not a substitute, just something different to try. It’s like it wants to be a funky lasagne, but it’s just weird. Onions being raw in the sour cream/cream cheese was bad too. Maybe one thing would be to fry onions with the beef. Or better yet – try a different recipe. I will.
We really enjoyed it. Jim even went for seconds! A first in a. Long time.. I did add the onions & garlic to the meat & a small bit of onion to sour cream & cream cheese…reminds me of lasagne but so much lighter kinda like it better not as much trouble as making lasagna!! Will make this again! Loved it! Thanks for sharing the recipe! Pkmonte
I was really excited to try this recipe and made it exactly as written. My husband said it was ok, my son (who is not a picky eater AT ALL) said it was “weird”. I thought the first bite was good but after that it did have a strange taste to me and I ended up not finishing what I had. I gave it 2 stars because it wasn’t inedible it just wasn’t for us
Delicious! Truly great comfort food! I did delete the tsp of regular salt, but added extra garlic salt. This recipe is definitely a keeper for those who love comfort food.