30 Minute Cheesy Beef and Potato Skillet

Hey, hold on folks, don’t eat it with your eyes yet. Today, I’m gonna show you how to turn these ingredients right here into a fast 30 minute cheesy beef and potato skillet. For another family favorite quick weeknight meal, try our easy homemade hamburger helper recipe. Let’s get it.

Why You’ll Love This

Potatoes gonna be one of the stars. You gotta have cheese, that’s what’s gonna tie it all together. This is gonna turn it up over the top. When you grate your own cheese, it melts so good without putting all of that stuff in your body anyway. For another wonderfully comforting meal, consider making an easy crock pot beef tips and gravy recipe. So now you know how to make a potato super crispy.

Ingredients

• Bell peppers
• Potatoes
• Cheese
• Dry ingredients
• Seasoning (for heavier meats, for beef)
• Salt
• Pepper (kosher, coarse grime)
• Diced onions
• Extra infused virgin olive oil (scallion)
• Meat (80-20 or 90-10) – 1 pound and 10 ounces
• Garlic
• Seasoning blend
• Rice – 1 cup
• Beef broth (or chicken broth)

Instructions

1. Go ahead and just cut this down here.
2. Dice onions.
3. Take it like this, drop this in, and put a little pressure here on the back in.
4. Get a bowl, put some cold water in it, so we can keep these and turn it brown.
5. Cut potatoes however you want to, keep them all about the same size.
6. Drop potatoes in water to get some of that starch off.
7. Grate your own cheese.
8. Add just a little bit of extra infused virgin olive oil to a cast iron.
9. Break up the meat.
10. Reduce flame down to a medium.
11. Run potatoes under cold water until the water becomes clear.
12. Use a colander to drain water from potatoes.
13. Add onions when meat is just a little bit pink.
14. Place garlic on top of the meat to prevent burning.
15. Take dry seasoning, put it on the meat.
16. Pat potatoes dry as possible.
17. Go ahead and just grab potatoes like this, and put that in there like that.
18. Get a spider and go in that same bowl, let potatoes drip dry.
19. Spread potatoes out.
20. Come back with another sheet of paper towel and put this on the top.
21. Take your fire, get back up to a medium flame.
22. Add potatoes right over the top.
23. Start working this in here like this.
24. Add rice. If you enjoy a delicious savory ground beef and rice meal, consider making an easy one-pan ground beef and rice meal.
25. Let rice dry and absorb a little bit on its own prior to putting it in there.
26. Keep moving rice around until you can’t see no more white rice.
27. Bring beef broth in.
28. Turn the heat up back up on high to get it to a boil.
29. Once it’s boiling, reduce it down to a simmer.
30. Put a lid on top.
31. Set a timer for 25 minutes.
32. When the timer goes off, open the lid away from you to avoid steam burn.
33. Turn off the fire.
34. Check potatoes with a toothpick to see if they are nice and tender.
35. Put some shredded cheese on top.
36. Put the top on here.
37. Wait about two or three minutes for cheese to melt.

Cooking Tips

When you buy the shredded cheese in the grocery store, if you look at the shredded cheese through the window, you’ll notice that they got like a little white powdery substance on there and that’s so that it don’t stick. But I can tell you this, when you grate your own cheese, it melts so good. Doing a cast iron is good for the fact that the iron and it spreads it out. Once it’s out, it holds your heat. To make a potato super crispy, get that starch off and then when we go ahead and cook them, we wanna go ahead and make sure that they can pat it dry completely. For another great way to achieve crispy results, check out our guide to easy crispy air fryer potatoes. I always keep hot, soapy water next to you know, when I’m cooking so I can wash as I go. If you got those pots or you’ve been cooking way too fast and something sticking on the bottom, these onions right here are gonna help you deglaze your pan. I like to give my onions always a little bit of a head start. We don’t want to burn our garlic. Put this right here on top, once it’s misty. I can keep talking, I can leave, I can come back. I don’t have to worry about me burning my garlic. I like to let my rice dry before I add my broth to it. Sometimes you can take the rice, put it in the skillet, and then you could just like toast it. It gives it a little bit of a nuttyness taste to it. It’s best if you use beef broth just for this flavor profile. You’ll see it calm down.

Serving Suggestions

If you got yourself wanting to have big tortillas, you roll this up. What if we just put a little smile with the egg and something like that in the inside? This dish is perfect for a weeknight, much like an easy garlic butter steak bites recipe.

I didn’t want to double different. And I didn’t have so much. That’s all I can tell you is you guys make this and let me know down in the comment section below. I just want to say, hey, thank you. Yes, where folks, I’m out. Peace.