Healthy Ham, Swiss Cheese and Veggie Bake
Healthy Ham, Swiss Cheese and Veggie Bake is spectacular. This awesome casserole includes ham, gluten free noodles & stir-fry vegetables in a mouthwatering Swiss cheese sauce. This comfort food recipe is wonderfully hearty and filling. It's so delightful no one will even realize it's gluten free! It's also a marvelous way to use up leftover ham from holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Ingredients
- 8 oz. gluten free rotini spirals, cooked and drained (Ronzoni makes a great GF pasta noodle)
- 12 oz. ham diced
- 16 oz. pkg. Swiss cheese shredded
- 16 oz. pkg. frozen broccoli, corn and red bell peppers or other stir fry combination of your choice
- 16 oz. pkg. frozen sugar snap stir fry veggie mix
- 1/3 cup diced red onion
- 2 leeks green top removed, sliced
- 2 extra large cloves garlic minced or about 4-5 regular-sized cloves of garlic
- 1 stick unsalted butter (1/2 cup)
- 1/2 cup gluten free flour
- 3 cups half-and-half cream
- 1 tsp. sea salt or kosher salt
- 3/4 tsp. black pepper
- 1 tsp. dill weed
- 1 tsp. marjoram
- 1 tsp. thyme
- 1/2 cup fresh torn parsley
- fresh parsley chopped, for garnish
Instructions
- Bring noodles to a boil and cook al dente – about two minutes less than the amount given.
- Meanwhile, make sauce.
- Melt butter in cast-iron Dutch oven.
- Add diced onion and leeks and sauté a few minutes.
- Add minced garlic and sauté a few minutes more.
- Whisk in gluten free flour.
- Then begin adding cream about ¼ cup at a time until all the cream is incorporated.
- Stir in Swiss cheese, then add salt, pepper, dill weed, marjoram, and thyme.
- Then stir in the two packages of frozen, uncooked veggies.
- Stir in ham, parsley, and cooked noodles.
- Place in a 9x13” glass baking dish that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
- Bake at 350° about 30-40 minutes or until bubbly and heated through.
- Garnish with more parsley and Swiss cheese, as desired.
Notes
NOTE: When casserole is done you can add an additional cup of Swiss cheese on top of the casserole and bake 5 minutes more if desired.
NOTE: DON'T use gluten free noodles made strictly with corn. They turn out horrible! Use gluten free noodles made with rice as the predominate ingredient. Ronzoni makes a wonderful GF pasta these days. While I used DeBoles pasta, it is extremely starchy and also very fragile. My preferred GF pasta is Ronzoni.
NOTE: Gluten free noodles made only with corn are hard, crunchy and are so fragile they break apart very easily. They don't cook well for use in casseroles or pasta salads. This is the voice of experience talking!!! Avoid them like the plague!
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