Cheesy Vegetable Casserole

This cheesy vegetable bake is a delicious vegetable medley that takes mere minutes to throw together. It’s a foolproof dish prepared with frozen mixed vegetables, cream of mushroom soup, butter, cheese, and crispy bread crumbs. Serve this as a side with anything from chicken to meatloaf, steak, ribs, or your preferred protein. You just can’t go wrong with a cheesy vegetable casserole.

With a colorful variety of tasty veggies and a creamy cheese sauce, this breadcrumb topped side dish pairs with anything, and it’s so easy to make.

Also try smoked elote or mushroom foccacia bread. These recipes with frozen vegetable are also delicious, and so is creamy lemon pasta!

Why You’ll Love It

Full of flavour: The combination of vegetables and cheese is a classic one, featured in many recipes. A vegetable casserole doesn’t have to be complicated to be delicious, and this frozen vegetables casserole dish is proof of that.
Simple to prepare: Once you’ve cooked the vegetables, you just need to add the sauce and breadcrumb topping and bake. Mixed vegetable casserole is one of the easiest recipes you can make with veggies and cheese.
Versatile: Feel free to change the vegetables for any veggies you like. You can also tweak the cheese sauce and seasonings however you want.

Cheesy Veggie Casserole Ingredients

Frozen mixed vegetables are always worth having in the freezer since you can make delicious side dishes like this easy Velveeta veggie casserole. The other ingredients you’ll need for the vegetable casserole are cream of mushroom soup, butter, Velveeta cheese, mushrooms, onion powder, and breadcrumbs.

How to Make This Vegetable Bake with Cheese

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Thaw and heat the frozen veggies: Cook the frozen vegetables in a casserole dish or baking dish, stirring occasionally.
Make the sauce: Warm the soup, butter and Velveeta together in a saucepan, and then add the mushrooms and onion powder and pour it over the vegetables.
Add the topping and bake: Sprinkle the breadcrumbs over the cheesy vegetable casserole and bake until golden brown at the edges and bubbling on top, then serve this tasty, easy recipe hot as a side dish.

Substitutions and Variations

Any frozen mixed veggies will work in this recipe, and frozen broccoli, peas, cauliflower, carrots, and corn all work nicely here. Fresh veggies could be used, too, but the cooking time will need to be adjusted for more dense fresh vegetables.

You can omit any kind of vegetables you don’t like, perhaps leaving the sliced mushrooms out of the recipe and swapping the mushroom soup for another creamy variety. You can also choose to use panko on top instead of regular breadcrumbs, or even crumbled Ritz crackers.

How to Serve Frozen Vegetable Casserole

A mixed vegetable casserole pairs beautifully with so many different kinds of meat, poultry and even some seafood dishes. Consider trying grilled blackened chicken, Italian beef, roasted chicken, or stuffed flank steak. Another idea is making a batch of cheesy vegetable casserole and having it as part of a buffet spread.

How to Store Vegetable Casserole Leftovers

Store: Leftovers will keep for up to 3 days in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Reheat: Warm up leftovers in the oven or microwave.
Freeze: This vegetable casserole is suitable for freezing, and you can freeze it together or separate it into portions if you will want to thaw them individually.

Mixed Vegetable Casserole FAQs

Cheesy Vegetable Casserole Recipe

When it comes to tasty side dishes, this vegetable casserole recipe is one of the best. It’s super-simple to prepare and you can mix and match the vegetables you use. The creamy cheese sauce is lovely with the vegetables and the crispy breadcrumb topping finishes this cheesy vegetable casserole just perfectly.

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