Chocked full of veggies and topped with a homemade cheese sauce, this Cheesy Ham, Potato & Green Bean Casserole is classic comfort food!
When fresh green beans are in season, it always makes me think of this casserole. It’s basic, yet delicious and who’s going to complain about a cheesy sauce? Not me!
Plus, even better, that cheesy sauce is made from real ingredients. A major win in my opinion!
Just a little tip: if you work smart, you can save yourself some extra work and time when you are making this dish.
Instead of cooking the potatoes and green beans in two separate kettles, just plan ahead a bit and cook the potatoes first, dump them into the baking dish and then use the same kettle to cook the green beans.
Or, if you really want to plan ahead and save yourself time, have baked potatoes for dinner a few days before you are ready to make this dish and make extra. Then you can use those for your potatoes in this recipe.
Cheesy Ham, Potato & Green Bean Casserole
Cheesy Ham, Potato & Green Bean Casserole
Ingredients
- 6 Tbsp. butter
- ¼ cup + 2 Tbsp. flour
- salt to taste (about 1 tsp.)
- ½ tsp. pepper
- ¼ tsp. onion powder
- 1/8 tsp. garlic powder
- 3 cups milk
- 1½ cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 5 cups potatoes, cooked and diced
- 6 cups green beans, cooked
- 2 cups cooked ham diced
- 2 tbsp. butter, melted
- ½ cup seasoned bread crumbs
Instructions
- Melt butter and whisk in flour, salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder.
- Add milk, stirring constantly, until thickened.
- Remove from heat, add cheese and stir until melted.
- Put potatoes in greased 9×13 baking dish, top with green beans and then ham.
- Pour cheese sauce over all.
- Combine bread crumbs and butter; Sprinkle over top of casserole.
- Bake at 350° for 30 minutes.
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Mary
Could you use canned green beans? Also could you make it the day before and bake it the next day?
Lydia Beiler
Canned green beans should work fine, Mary! You may not need as much salt if using them though. And while I’ve never made this the day before, I don’t know why it would be a problem. I think I would wait to add the buttered bread crumbs until you are ready to bake it though so they don’t get soggy. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
Lane
If you can end up having leftovers or cooking it for two days then making ahead is the same thing
Nicole
We had a bumper crop of green beans, and my aunt mentioned that a green bean, ham, potato, and cheese casserole was a favorite that my grandma used to make for the family. I did have breadcrumbs on hand, but opted to used crunchy fried onions instead. I mixed some into the casserole and I put some on top during the last five minutes of baking. Everyone loved it. There were no leftovers and I didn’t even have time to get a photo before it was all gone.
Lydia Beiler
Oh, the crunchy fried onions sound like a super delicious addition! Thanks for sharing that. And so glad that you all enjoyed it! It’s definitely a crowd pleaser!