Keto Cheeseburger Casserole

Everyone on a low-carb diet craves cheeseburgers or hamburgers at some point.

If you’ve read my Keto Fast Food Guide, you know that it’s possible to get a quick fix in some fast foods, but nothing replaces homemade food.

While you can make amazing healthy cheeseburgers and hamburgers using my burger buns recipe, there is a quicker option.

This keto hamburger casserole is the trick to fixing all your cheeseburger and hamburger cravings and meal prep a week of easy healthy breakfasts, lunches, or dinners without cooking every morning!

What Is A Cheeseburger Casserole?

A Cheeseburger Casserole is a simple dish made with all the cheeseburger ingredients but without the burger bun.

When made in a large dish, it can meal prep a whole week of meals.

How To Make This Cheeseburger Casserole

Making this casserole is super simple! Let me show you how to pick the best ingredients and my best tips for making it.

Ingredients

All you need to make this easy low-carb cheeseburger casserole are a few simple ingredients.

Let’s see how to choose the best easy casserole ingredients.

• Ground Beef – choose good-quality beef, grass-fed if possible.
• Burger Spices – most store-bought ready-made burger spice mixes contain sugar. That’s why this keto recipe doesn’t use this option. Instead, you can mimic burger flavors using a combination of garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, and beef broth.
• Garlic – I always pick organic garlic.
• Onion
• Grated Cheddar – any kind of cheddar cheese works well. Use your favorite. In case you are wondering, cheddar has only 0.7 grams of net carbs per ounce, making it a very low-carb dairy product.
• Salt and Pepper – seasoning casserole is the key to making the best keto cheeseburger casserole.
• Mayonnaise – not all mayonnaises are keto-friendly. The best option is avocado oil mayonnaise. If you can’t find this in your store, replace it with the same amount of sour cream or cream cheese.
• Eggs – learn why eggs have very few carbs.
• Heavy Cream – heavy cream is a low-carb product.
• Sugar-free Ketchup – use my homemade ketchup recipe or look for unsweetened ketchup in the store.
• Mustard – yellow or Dijon mustard, as you like, both are keto-friendly.
• Pickles– normal cheeseburgers are hamburgers with cheese and pickles (gherkins in the UK). So to make a proper cheeseburger casserole, you need a few slices of pickles, or we should call this dish a keto hamburger casserole! Of course, if you are not a fan of pickles, swap for the same amount of fried bacon pieces. A keto bacon cheeseburger casserole is equally amazing!

Instruction Tips

We are all looking for keto breakfasts without eggs. I mean, not totally egg-free, but a breakfast that doesn’t look like an omelette, fried eggs, or scrambled eggs.

Well, this easy low-carb casserole recipe is the best keto breakfast to start the day with only 3 grams of net carbs.

I recommend preparing your casserole the day before and rewarming it every morning in the microwave, oven, or saucepan.

Step 1: Browning The meat

The key to making a tasty keto ground beef casserole is to brown the meat in olive oil.

Warm a large skillet over medium-high heat, and start browning the meat by breaking/crumbling the beef apart with a spoon to cook evenly.

The meat is cooked when it is not pink anymore.

Step 2: Draining The Meat

To avoid a runny casserole, it is important to remove the liquid from the skillet.

Then, return the meat into the skillet and cook again with mayonnaise, cream cheese, or sour cream.

Step 3: Picking The Casserole Dish Size

We all love our casseroles differently. If you love a thick beef layer to mimic a double cheeseburger, then use a 9-inch x 9-inch baking dish, as seen in this post.

Note that this won’t impact the carb per serve because whatever the size of the dish you use, you divide the entire dish into 9 portions of the same size.

Since you spread the ingredients evenly into the baking dish, the net carbs per serve will remain the same.

Step 4: Making the Cheeseburger Sauce

Prepare the cheeseburger sauce in a separate mixing bowl. Beat the eggs with heavy cream, sugar-free ketchup, mustard, and shredded cheddar.

Pour this sauce evenly over the baking dish. The larger the dish is, the thinner the layer of sauce will be.

Step 5: Baking

Bake the keto hamburger casserole with the remaining shredded cheddar on top until melted and broiled for 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 400°F (200°C).

Customize The Casserole

There are so many options to tune this recipe and create a variety of new keto casseroles.

• Keto Cheeseburger Cauliflower Casserole –  replace 1/2 lbs of ground beef with the same amount of cauliflower rice.
• Keto Cheeseburger Bacon Casserole – simply add bacon – fry 1/2 lbs of fried bacon pieces and arrange on top of the cooked ground beef in the casserole dish.
• Vegetables – you can add 1/2 cup of diced red bell peppers, along with the onions.

Serving Suggestion

Of course, you can serve this casserole plain. It is delicious.

But what about turning the cheeseburger experience further by serving your casserole on top of lettuce and thin slices of tomatoes.

This will bring out all the cheeseburger flavors, and if you add 50 grams (1.8 oz) of each ingredient, one serving will contain 5.2 grams of net carbs instead of 3 grams of net carbs if served without these keto vegetables.

Storage Instructions

This recipe is ideal for meal prepping a whole week of keto meals. The great thing about it is that you can eat it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It’s always delicious!

You can store it in the pan, lined with plastic wrap, and keep it in the fridge for a couple of days.

Alternatively, if you keep it in airtight containers, you can refrigerate it for an entire week.

But you can also freeze it in zip lock bags. It will last for up to 3 months in the freezer.

Each portion can then be reheated in a microwave (it might take a good 4 to 5 minutes).