Tamale Pie

This is a new recipe that I just love. It's so easy and delicious. My new favorite.

Tamale Pie

Mix the following together:

2# ground beef, cooked and drained
1 can refried beans
1 can corn, drained
1 can or jar salsa

Use soup-sized cans/jars. Any type of salsa that you like is fine. I used a very plain one.

Put the mixture in a greased 9 x 12 casserole. You don't really have to grease it but it makes cleanup a bit easier, imo.

Mix up a box of Jiffy corn bread mix and add 1 cup of shredded cheddar to it. Put little globs all over the top of the meat mixture. Top that with more shredded cheese.

Bake at 350 degrees until the top is done. My recipe said 35 minutes but it was beginning to burn after 20. It actually looked done by about 10 minutes. You are only heating it up and baking the corn bread mixture which is so spread out it cooks rapidly.

Serve with sour cream. The woman who made this for me forgot the sour cream, and so did I when I served it tonight. I guess it doesn't really need it!

Gwendalou