Green Bean Mashed Potato Casserole is a great Thanksgiving or Christmas side dish! Combining your 2 favorite dishes into one with plain or use garlic mashed potatoes to amp up all the flavors, either way it is a delicious duo.
Have you ever had green bean mashed potato casserole? No?? Oh you’re missing out! Yes you can make taters and this popular Thanksgiving side dish separately, but stop. You need to make them together this year! (affiliate links present)
Table of Contents
- Easy Mashed Potato Breen Bean Casserole Recipe
- Ingredients
- Substitutions
- Are canned or frozen green beans better in green bean casserole?
- Beef Potato and Green Bean Casserole
- Cheesy Potato Green Bean Casserole
- How to Make Mashed Potato Topped Green Bean Casserole
- How do you thicken green bean casserole?
- What other side dishes go with green bean casserole?
- Can you add meat to green bean mashed potato casserole?
- Green Bean Mashed Potato Casserole Recipe
Easy Mashed Potato Breen Bean Casserole Recipe
There are a lot of great Thanksgiving side dish ideas out there. Most are traditional and kinda’ boring, this is NOT! Everyone needs a “wow, what is that” dish next to the moist turkey every year.
The great thing about this combo side dish is you can customize it. If you love extra creamy, add more sour cream to your bottom layer. Want to use canned onions you can, but homemade is best. We’ll show you how to make those too.
Ingredients
- Frozen green beans to make easy green bean casserole with bacon in the oven
- Cream of mushroom soup
- Milk or dairy free alternative
- Salt and pepper
- Potatoes to make on stove or pressure cooker mashed potatoes
- Sour cream or plain Greek yogurt works
- Butter or vegan plant based product
- Bacon bits are optional
Substitutions
If you want to cheat you can use packaged Idahoan buttery boxed instead of homemade. You can top with a cup of French fried onions or make homemade crispy fried onions.
Are canned or frozen green beans better in green bean casserole?
Frozen is best, period. If you have only had it the Old Fashioned way your mom always did it with draining the cans you will immediately notice a difference in the texture when you try it with frozen green beans. They will thaw and cook to tender when baked and won’t get as soft and mushy as the other.
Beef Potato and Green Bean Casserole
I included my favorite recipes for these two above. If you have your own favorite way to make these two dishes go right ahead and use your method. I use my Instant Pot for basically everything so preparing each is super quick. You could even brown some ground beef and add a layer of that in the middle.
- Then top with your crunchy onions and give it a quick trip in the oven to all meld together and brown.
I’ve even made Instant Pot sweet potato casserole style before. It just saves you so much room in your oven to eliminate side dishes. It makes for an easier cleanup for me too.
Cheesy Potato Green Bean Casserole
Once you whip together both dishes you’re going to layer them. Now if you have a big group I might double your typical recipe and use a 9×13 pan. We used a 2 quart casserole 8×8 baking dish here. I love something on the very top. Either crispy onions or cheese is our go to.
- Like I said, there is a lot of twists you could make to this. Add hatch green chiles for a little heat, or a lot. I like to add a can of mild to just about everything for flavor. It doesn’t make it hot.
- I do this many times inside my cream corn casserole recipe and it makes it over the top.
Of course you’re not going to make this alone, you’ll want pressure cooker turkey or Instant Pot ham with it!
Steps to take for mashed potato casserole First you’ll want to have your flavored mashed potatoes prepared, as well as your slow cooker green bean casserole (or other method).
How to Make Mashed Potato Topped Green Bean Casserole
- You could also make one layer with your air fryer mashed potatoes which can be made with sweet potatoes too. A lot of options as far as how to make each one.
- Then spray your casserole dish with non stick spray
- I like to put my veggie dish on top with prepared mashed potatoes on the bottom
- you could do it the other way around I suppose
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Sprinkle fried onions on top
- Can sprinkle a bit more salt and pepper on the very top for added flavor
- Bake for 20 minutes or bake for 30 minutes or until hot and lightly browned on top. Timing will depend on how thick yours is.
- If it’s already as hot as you’d like you can skip baking and just adjust your oven to broil to brown the top
- Remove from oven and stir casserole if desired. I like to leave as is so you can see the layers. I think it’s prettier that way.
How do you thicken green bean casserole?
If in the past you thought the end result was too watery there are a few options; add less milk, or you can whisk in 1 tsp of cornstarch into that before combining it all together. Flour works as a thickener as well, or even arrowroot which is gluten free.
What other side dishes go with green bean casserole?
I mean the list is long but the best are our make ahead twice baked potatoes ever are here along with steamed Ninja Foodi green beans which is a healthier option.
If you want to go a sweet route you have got to get out some canned fruit with marshmallows to make my Grandma’s ambrosia recipe with sour cream. It is something that must be on our holiday table 5 minute gravy can be made with any drippings from your turkey or chicken
Can you add meat to green bean mashed potato casserole?
Of course!! Just brown ground beef and put a layer of that in the center of the two if you like. Jimmy Dean spicy sausage will add a bit of heat in there if you want to add some real wow to it. Sprinkle bacon bits on the top. Put a layer of leftover ham, diced, in between the two.
Green Bean Mashed Potato Casserole
Equipment
- 1 9×13 pan
Ingredients
- 2 lbs potatoes
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 c milk, whole
- 1/2 stick butter
- green bean casserole, use linked recipe or your own
- 1.5 c fried onions, use linked recipe or French's fried onions in can
- Instant Pot mashed potatoes, you can use linked recipe instead of stovetop method shared here if you'd rather
Instructions
- Prepare your green bean casserole ingredients (minus the fried onions you'd put on top) + have your homemade fried onions or canned ready for assembly. Then make your mashed potatoes either on the stovetop or pressure cooker using link above in recipe card.
- If making stovetop mashed potatoes bring a pot of water to boil on the stove and put in your cubed and peeled russet or Yukon gold potatoes.
- Boil until they are fork tender. Drain and put them back into the pot, remove from heat.
- Add butter and cover so it melts. Then mash and slowly incorporate milk and salt until smooth. Taste to see if you'd like more salt or pepper added.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put mashed potatoes into a 8×8 pan and evenly spread out. Then add your layer of green bean casserole mixture topped with your fried onions.
- Place in the center of your oven for 20 minutes. Allow to cool slightly before spooning out and serving.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
