Cheeseburger Pie

Cheeseburger Pie has a delicious savory filling made with ground beef, bacon, cheese, mushrooms, and onions under a buttery dumpling crust. Your family will love it!

Easy & Delicious Weeknight Dinner

This fantastic Cheeseburger Pie is an easy and super delicious casserole that deserves a place in your go-to weeknight dinner recipe collection. The prep takes just fifteen minutes – then your oven does the rest of the work!

As you can tell by the name – it’s essentially a cheeseburger in ‘pie form’ – with ground beef, bacon, onions, mushrooms, seasonings, and cheddar cheese as the filling. The ‘hamburger buns’ are soft and tender buttery cheddar dumplings on top of the filling.

The aromas coming out of the oven as this beef and cheese pie bakes will have your family clamoring to eat dinner!

• The combination of savory beef, smoky bacon, earthy mushrooms, and a cheddar cheese biscuit are pure and delicious comfort food.
• It takes just fifteen minutes of hands-on preparation before it goes into the oven to bake – leaving you with time to make the rest of dinner or other weeknight tasks.
• This recipe is sized for four portions, but you can easily double it to feed a larger family.

• Bacon – This is cooked and crumbled on top of the filling, and some of the rendered fat is also used to sauté the vegetables.
• Yellow Onions
• White Button Mushrooms
• Fresh Garlic
• Ground Beef – We used an 80/20 ground beef for the best flavor but drained off some of the fat before baking in the oven. You can swap in a leaner ground beef mix if you prefer.
• Beef Stock – Canned or homemade.
• Heavy Cream
• Worcestershire Sauce
• Ketchup
• Seasonings –Including salt and pepper, dry mustard, and gravy browning/seasoning sauce (such as Kitchen Bouquet or Gravy Master).
• All-Purpose Flour – Used to thicken the filling and also added to the dumplings.
• Cheese –Sharp cheddar cheese tops the pie filling and is also added to the dumplings.
• Additional Dumpling Ingredients – Baking powder, granulated sugar, salt, cold unsalted butter, whole milk.

1. Chop bacon finely, then sauté to crisp. Drain but reserve two tablespoons of the bacon fat.
2. Sauté sliced onion and mushrooms in the bacon fat. Add garlic and cook for a few minutes more.
3. Add ground beef and cook until no longer pink. Drain and discard most of the fat, leaving a little in the bottom of the pan.
4. Add beef stock, heavy cream, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, kosher salt, black pepper, ketchup, dry mustard, and gravy flavor color to the beef and vegetable mixture. Simmer for 20 minutes.
5. Mix flour and cold water to form a slurry, then add to the mixture in the skillet. Stir and cook for one minute to thicken.
6. Pour into a baking dish and sprinkle with shredded cheddar cheese and cooked bacon pieces.
7. Mix dumpling batter. Use a scoop to divide the batter into portions and place over the mixture.
8. Cover with parchment and foil and bake for 15 minutes. Remove parchment and foil and bake for ten more minutes to brown the top.
9. Let the pie set up for ten minutes, then serve.

• Can I make Cheeseburger Pie ahead of time?  The filling and dumplings can be made in advance then refrigerated separately. When ready to bake, remove the filling from refrigeration and bring to room temperature. Once the oven is hot, scoop the cold dumpling batter over the pie and bake per instructions.
• How do I store leftovers?  Store covered in the refrigerator for up to two days.
• How do I reheat leftovers? Reheat individual portions in the microwave or cover the pie and warm through in the oven.
• Can I freeze? We’ve actually never tried doing so ourselves, but we think the cooked pie should freeze well.

This Cheeseburger Pie recipe originally appeared on A Family Feast in 2013. We’ve updated the post, photos, as well as the recipe to make it even more delicious!

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