This recipe is a super fun & easy way to feed your family dinner any night of the week with staples in your pantry and freezer!

The Beef & Cheese Loaf will feed multiple people and is always a crowd pleaser. Take this fun loaf to family get togethers and tailgate parties! It also travels well and is perfect for sharing.

Living on a working farm, I am always looking for ways to feed my family and multiple people. This recipe for me is similar to a one pot meal. I just put all of the components together and serve. A side salad and a couple of vegetables as sides would be great additions to round out a meal.

On nights that I am in a big hurry I will buy a loaf of Italian or French bread from the grocery store. This allows me to skip the step of baking bread. I’ve also made the bread and frozen it to pull out for this recipe when I need to skip a step. The meat mixture can be precooked and frozen for the future and you can purchase preshredded cheese to make preparing this meal that much faster.

There are many variations that can be done with this basic recipe. Change up the meat, the cheese, or add some garlic, peppers, green onions and the options are endless to customize however you would like!

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Beef & Cheese Loaf

Yield: Multiple

Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

This Beef & Cheese loaf is a fun and easy way to feed your family any night of the week! It has flavors of French onion soup and is sure to please all!

Ingredients

The Bread:

4 c all purpose flour
1T brown sugar/honey/molasses
1 1/3 c warm/room temp water
1.5t avocado/coconut/olive oil
2 t dry active yeast
1.5 t salt

Meat/Cheese Filling

1lb lean hamburger
1-2 large onions chopped
1 packet onion soup mix
2 T butter/oil
thyme/basil/herbs/spices to your liking
salt & pepper to taste
1lb+ grated cheese

Instructions

Place all of the bread ingredients into a bread machine in order according to the manufacturers instructions
Select the dough cycle
Once the dough cycle is finished (about 1.5 hours), remove the dough from the inner pan of the bread machine.
Place dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper that has been dusted with flour
Shape the dough into a longer loaf
Cover the loaf with a clean kitchen towel and allow to rest and rise for 40 minutes or until the loaf has doubled in size
After the loaf has risen, bake in a 375* oven uncovered for 30 minutes or until golden brown (eggwash before baking is optional)

While the bread is baking, prepare the meat mixture
Heat a skillet on the stove on medium
Add the 2 T of butter to the pan
Chop the onions and add to the pan, stirring
Cook the onions for a few minutes until they start to become translucent
Add the hamburger to the pan
Cook the meat until there are no longer pink bits
Add the packet of onion soup mix to the pan and stir
Add just enough water to make a juicy gravy
Lower the heat to low/medium and allow to simmer to finish cooking the onions
Add any spices/herbs/salt/pepper
Turn the heat off

Remove the bread from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes
Cut the loaf lengthwise, open and place on a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil
Fill the loaf in layers, starting with the grated cheese
Add a layer of the meat mixture
Continue the layers until you have used all of the cheese and the meat mixture
Replace the top of the loaf and wrap in the foil
Bake at 350* until the cheese is melted (5-10 minutes)

Remove the loaf from the oven and unwrap. Allow to cool for a couple of minutes before slicing.

Serve and enjoy!

Notes

This loaf doesn't last long in our house, but it does heat up well in a microwave or you can rewrap in foil and heat in the oven for 10 minutes at 350*