Believe it or not, you only need six ingredients to make this tasty casserole. There’s no bread to worry about here, just a stand-in of refrigerated crescent rolls which provide a delicious buttery and doughy base and top for a sandwich feel. And then there’s the filling, which is just ground beef (seasoned to perfection of course), onions, and cabbage that are cooked together into a tender and flavorful medley.
The only other component is cheese, because, well, casseroles and cheese just seem to belong together, and trust me that melty mozzarella is the perfect unifier here. It doesn’t alter the flavor much, but it just adds that stringy, melty comfort that only cheese can.
And that’s it! It’s a quick bit of stovetop work to brown the ground beef, and then you layer the crescent rolls, beef mixture, cheese, and more crescent rolls and bake. So simple, but so very satisfying. It’s Runza flavor through and through but in a way that makes it easy to feed a crowd… or just a few people who might want second servings (and I promise that with this, that’s kind of inevitable).
