25 Best Casseroles You Can Make with Pantry Staples

The main ingredients in this dish include noodles, bread crumbs, and a homemade sauce including milk and sour cream.

Possible substitutions: While chicken and cheddar are named, you can include any cooked meat or veggies and your choice of cheese to make the most of what you have.

This noodle casserole calls for a homamde sauce, noodles, sausage, peppers, onion, and mushrooms, combining into a hearty, cheesy casserole, akin to mac and cheese, but better.

Possible substitutions: you can swap in meats and veggies of your preference. Just a few tablespoons of pesto add amazing flavor, but you can include salsa or BBQ sauceto change the flavor profile.

This amazing dish is simply mashed potatoes enhanced with roasted garlic and cheddar.

Possible substitutions: If need be, swap the cheese for whatever variety you have on hand and use green onion or sauteed onions instead of garlic.

Who knew you could make your own cream of chicken soup? You can! And once you do, stir it together with sour cream, cheese, and shredded potatoes.

Possible substitutions: use greek yogurt for sour cream as well as whatever cheese you have on hand. If you don't have frozen, cook and shred fresh potatoes as a substitute.

While the traditional casserole calls for canned soups, beans, and fried onions, this homemade version plays with other pantry staples: like flour, milk, butter, and bread crumbs.

Possible substitutions: use plain yogurt instead of sour cream, whatever shredding cheese you have on hand for the asiago. You can make your own panko breadcrumbs. Use onion powder and dried parsley if you don't have fresh.

Chicken and broccoli play well together when paired with a homemade sauce and topped with cheese and bread crumbs.

Possible substitutions: use frozen broccoli instead of fresh, canned chicken or other cooked meat, homemade breadcrumbs, and whatever cheese you have on hand.

No need for a boxed mac mix when you can make this one. Butter, flour, and milk form your homemade white sauce.

Possible substitutions: use whatever pasta or cheese you have on hand.

If you've got noodles, sour cream, and cheese, you've got what you need to make this dish.

Possible substitutions: plain greek yogurt can stand in for the sour cream and any shredding cheese. Use whatever short pasta you have on hand if you don't have macaroni.

You can make a pizza into a casserole? Yep. A biscuit crust gets topped with a homemade white sauce and an array of toppings. Use this base as a springboard for whatever toppings you might have on hand.

Possible substitutions: any cooked meat or veggies for the chicken, onions, and tomatoes; whatever shredded cheese you have on hand.

Spicy sausage teams up with peppers, onions, mushrooms, and crushed tomatoes, all to be layered with noodles, mozzarella, and a homemade beschamel.

Possible substitutions: use whatever ground meat you have on hand; use a jarred sauce if that's what you have; swap in ricotta, cottage cheese, or the cream cheese sauce from this recipe, if you don't have the stuff to make the white sauce.

Mexican Lasagna takes your standard pasta casserole to new heights with pepper jack cheese and salsa to jazz things up.

Possible substitutions: use whatever shredded cheese you have, any ground meat will work. If you don't have the chicken broth/cream cheese for the cheese layer, you can substitute ricotta, cottage cheese, or a homemade white sauce.

The main ingredients in these yummy shells include: pasta, chicken, cream cheese, mozzarella, and red sauce. Pretty sweet and simple.

Possible substitutions: use whatever cooked meat you have. If using ground meat, you can omit the cream cheese. Try jack if you don't have mozzarella.

This recipe is a mainstay at our house with only four main ingredients: shredded potatoes, cooked sausage, shredded cheese, and eggs. So easy and so good!

Possible substitutions: use fresh cooked potatoes if you don't have frozen, swap in whatever cooked breakfast meat you have on hand (ham, sausage, bacon or swap in cooked veggies), use whatever cheese you like.

All the ingredients for Nachos pile into a pie plate, waiting for you to slide them in the oven. Once hot and melty, dig in with tortillas or chips -- or both!

Possible substitutions: Use mashed black beans or even chickpeas if you don't have pintos/refried. Layer on whatever shredding cheese you have and raid the fridge and pantry for fun toppings.

What do you make with the crushed chips at the bottom of a bag? Lawnmower Taco! Ground meat simmers in a homemade sauce before you layer it between crushed chips and cheese.

Possible substitutions: swap in any meat or beans for the ground beef, use whatever cheese you have, swap in tortillas if you don't have chips.

Cheese enchiladas take about 15 minutes to assemble from start to finish, making them a super simple dinner.

Possible substitutions: add in cooked veggies or meat along with the cheese; use whatever cheese you have on hand; make a homemade enchilada sauce if you like or use whatever salsa or Mexican sauce you got.

Once when I didn't have enchilada sauce or the means to make one, I created a different kind of sauce. A seasoned, creamy gravy enrobes tortillas, pepper jack, and cooked turkey for an enchilada that is out of this world.

Possible substitutions: use nut milk and vegetable stock if you don't have milk/chicken stock for the sauce; use whatever shredded cheese you have on hand; chicken, beef, or pork can be substituted for the turkey.

No time to roll enchiladas? No problem. This casserole solves that problem by combining cooked chicken, sour cream, salsa verde, tortillas, and cheese. So easy and delicious!

Possible substitutions: swap greek yogurt for the sour cream; use whatever salsa you have on hand. Any shredded cheese will work as well as cooked turkey or sausage.

With just five ingredients, this Crockpot Enchilada Stack comes together in minutes!

Possible substitutions: make a homemade enchilada sauce if you don't have canned; swap in whatever meat and cheese you have.

Similar to an enchilada, Chili Stacks go in a different direction with a seasoned tomato-based meat sauce. It's ready to serve in less than half an hour.

Possible substitutions: use whatever ground meat or sausage you have on hand as well as whatever shredded cheese you prefer.

Shepherd's Pie boils down to just a few elements: mashed potatoes spooned over cooked meats and veg in a savory gravy.

Possible substitutions: Use whatever meat and veg you have; omit the cheese if you prefer.

Pot Pies can go in several directions, but all have the same basic components: a savory filling of meat, beans, veggies, and sauce, topped by a pie crust or biscuit. This one is the latter.

Possible substitutions: swap out any cooked meats and veg for the turkey and vegetables listed.

This double crust pot pie features chicken and vegetables in a homemade gravy. Such delicious comfort food!

Possible substitutions: swap out any cooked meats and veg for the chicken and vegetables listed.

This single crust pot pie requires less work than its double crust cousin while still featuring delicious chicken and vegetables in a homemade gravy.

Possible substitutions: swap out any cooked meats and veg for the chicken and vegetables listed.

Black beans and a salsa-like sauce upstage where chicken, beef, and turkey have played the starring role in the past.

Possible substitutions: use whatever cooked beans and cheese you have on hand.