This Cowboy Brisket Casserole has been one of my most popular casseroles on my blog for years. I have adapted it to make a Microwave Cowboy Casserole! It starts with a cornbread base then adds corn, ranch style beans, bbq meat and sauce and cheese! It’s a deliciously smoky comfort casserole. You are gonna love it!
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Add Your Favorite BBQ Meat!
The nice thing about this casserole is you can use leftover barbecue meat like pulled pork, chopped brisket, or shredded barbecue chicken. Or, you can buy the premade bbq meat that already has sauce mixed in in the deli section of the grocery store and use that, too!
Ingredients to make Cowboy Casserole
- 1 box cornbread
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 can corn (or 10-15 oz frozen bag of corn)
- 1 can ranch style beans
- 1/2 cup cheese
- 2 cups your favorite bbq meat – chopped or shredded
- bbq sauce 1/2 cup
- optional: chives or green onions
Grease a 7 x 11 microwave-safe casserole dish with non-stick oil spray.
If you’re using a can of corn, drain the liquid. If you’re using a frozen bag of corn, heat the corn for about 1-2 minutes in the microwave and drain any liquid.
In the casserole dish, combine the Jiffy mix, corn, egg, and milk. Stir until well combined.
Microwave at 50% for 7 minutes.
Sprinkle cheese over the top of the cornbread.
Then, microwave on HIGH for 1 minute.
Drain the ranch style beans.
Pour over cornbread.
Mix the sauce and barbecue meat together.
Cover the beans with the bbq meat.
Cook 1 minute on HIGH in microwave
Add shredded cheese on top.
Cook 1 minute on HIGH in microwave.
Add chives or green onions to your taste.
Serve immediately.
Can I skip the corn?
Yes, you can leave out the corn completely in the cornbread, and this recipe still works great.
What’s a substitute for Ranch Style Beans?
Ranch Style Beans are a name brand of a distinct flavor of beans from here in Texas. I don’t know if they are around other parts of the country. Ranch Style Beans are pinto beans with a delicious, spicy and distinctive flavoring that just go so perfectly with barbecue.
However, I have substituted using “chili beans,” which are also pintos, and I have used just a can of pinto beans as well.
Sometimes, you can find a store brand or an off brand of Ranch Style Beans next to them in the grocery store, and they taste very close to the same flavor.
What other meat can I add to this cowboy casserole?
I have made this casserole with different barbecue meats. I always use precooked meats, such as leftover brisket or chicken. You can even use the frozen Tyson pulled chicken that comes in bags in the frozen section of the grocery store. Or, you could use sliced up barbecue sausage, too.
I’ve used chopped brisket and shredded barbecue chicken as well as pulled pork. You can find all of these in the frozen department or the deli section of the grocery store, precooked and easy to add to this casserole.
How do you store leftover cowboy casserole?
I either store it in the casserole dish with plastic wrap over the top and keep it in the fridge for up to 5 days, or I put it in a sealed plastic container in the fridge for up 5 days.
My teenager and my husband love this casserole and frequently take it for lunch to heat up quickly in the microwave. So, it would work great as a meal prep and portion it out into containers to take for lunch all week.
Recipes to pair with this Casserole
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- Microwave Baked Potatoes
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Microwave Cowboy Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 box cornbread
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 can corn (or 10-15 oz frozen bag of corn)
- 1 can ranch style beans
- 1/2 cup cheese
- 2 cups bbq meat
- bbq sauce 1/2 cup
- optional: chives or green onions
Instructions
- Grease a 7 x 11 microwave-safe casserole dish with non-stick oil spray.
- If you're using a can of corn, drain the liquid. If you're using a frozen bag of corn, heat the corn for about 1-2 minutes in the microwave and drain any liquid.
- In the casserole dish, combine the Jiffy mix, corn, egg, and milk. Stir until well combined.
- Microwave at 50% for 7 minutes.
- Sprinkle cheese over the top of the cornbread.
- Then, microwave on HIGH for 1 minute.
- Drain some of the liquid from the ranch style beans. (I usually keep about half of it)
- Pour over cornbread.
- Mix the sauce and barbecue meat together.
- Cover the beans with the bbq meat.
- Cook 1 minute on HIGH in microwave
- Add shredded cheese on top.
- Cook 1 minute on HIGH in microwave.
- Add chives or green onions to your taste.
- Serve immediately.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 323Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 76mgSodium: 1197mgCarbohydrates: 41gFiber: 3gSugar: 25gProtein: 18g
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