Covered Casserole baking dishes are essential to any cookware and bakeware collection, helping you tackle a number of different recipes and cooking techniques. From warm casseroles to decadent layered desserts, these pieces of bakeware have you covered.
Our Covered Casseroles are as durable as they are versatile, exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source boasting a chip-resistant exterior enamel. These pieces of bakeware accommodate family-style servings, helping you prepare recipes of all sizes when entertaining large groups.
Featuring a tight-fitting lid, these stoneware Covered Casserole Dishes lock in heat and moisture to deliver superior heat retention and even heat distribution. From our Oval and Rectangular Casserole all the way to the Mini Round Cocotte, these pieces of bakeware are sure to last a lifetime and elevate everyday meal preparation.
Here is everything you need to know about our Covered Casserole Dishes, including four recipes to experiment with.
Our Covered Casseroles
The Oval Casserole, Rectangular Casserole and Mini Round Cocotte each come equipped with their own set of features and are best suited for different recipes and cooking techniques. Get to know what makes each of our Covered Casseroles unique in their own way.
Oval Casserole
Our Oval Casserole baking dish epitomizes versatility and durability, offering home cooks and chefs alike the flexibility they need in the kitchen. This baking dish offers superior heat retention, ensuring all your favourite ingredients roast and bake to perfection in the oven. Featuring a tight-fitting lid and easy-to-grip tab handles, the Oval Casserole can be transferred from the oven to the table with ease.
This Covered Casserole baking dish is an incredibly versatile piece of bakeware and can be used to prepare decadent desserts or to roast meats. The shape is also great for gratins and other baked one-pot meals. Its oval shape is practically cornerless, which will help you get every last bite on your plate. This dish comes in a range of colours as well as two sizes, 2.3 L and 3.8 L, serving up meals for the whole family. Stoneware dishes like these can also be used in the freezer to prepare frozen desserts, like no-churn ice cream!
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Rectangular Casserole
Our Rectangular Casserole baking dish is just as durable as it is practical. This piece of bakeware is crafted with heat-retaining stoneware, ensuring its durability and performance for years to come. Its tight-fitting lid traps in heat and moisture, making it a convenient dish to bring to pot-lucks, and is also available as part of the Rectangular Casserole and Dish Set.
The Rectangular Casserole Dish comes in one size, 3.8 L, offering a significant surface area. This durable piece of bakeware can be used to prepare layered dishes such as lasagna and tiramisu, or even marinating tough cuts of meat.
Whether heading to a get-together, or a picnic, the Rectangular Casserole is designed to keep food hot, cold, and at room temperature. Ideal for those who love to entertain, this covered casserole can elevate hosting.
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Mini Round Cocotte
Deriving its inspiration from the Dutch Oven’s iconic three-ringed design, the Mini Round Cocotte is a unique baking dish that serves a variety of functions around the kitchen. This piece of bakeware is perfect for making smaller portions while still offering superior heat retention and even heat distribution.
This Covered Casserole Baking Dish is available in one size, 0.25 L, making it the ideal baking dish for an individual portion or smaller recipes. This collectable small shape is also great to store and reveal dips or other snacks for a cocktail hour or appetizer spread. This Covered Casserole dish is crafted with chip-resistant, colourful, stoneware and can also be used as a serving dish when entertaining friends and family. This unique baking dish is the perfect piece to bring variety to your Le Creuset collection.
Shop the Mini Round CocotteWhy You Need Covered Casseroles
Whether you are a novice in the kitchen or a seasoned chef, everyone should have at least one covered baking dish. The Oval Casserole, Rectangular Casserole and Mini Round Cocotte are built to last for years to come, embodying the buy-it-once-for-life nature of Le Creuset’s cookware and bakeware.
Our Covered Casserole Baking Dishes all come equipped with a tight-fitting lid that locks in heat and moisture, ensuring that your meal is cooked evenly and stays warm until it is ready to be served. Their easy-to-grip side handles make all of our Covered Casseroles Baking Dishes a breeze to serve with, entertaining friends and family in style.
The Rectangular and Oval Casseroles both come equipped with a significant surface area for cooking, albeit in different shapes, perfect for preparing large batches of food or side dishes and meal-prepping. The Mini Round Cocotte, on the other hand, is the perfect dish for smaller, individual portions, making for a versatile addition to your Le Creuset collection.
From preparing lasagna to a layering decadent dessert and or marinating meat or fish before dinner, these dishes have you covered. Our Covered Casserole dishes are ultimately easy to use and clean, opening up the cooking possibilities in your kitchen.
Covered Casserole Recipes
If you have already got yourself a Covered Casserole, then it is time to try out some unique recipes, ideal for preparing these dishes. Here are some tasty recipes perfect for the Oval Casserole, Mini Round Cocotte, and Rectangular Casserole respectively that are sure to become staples in your household.
Recipes for the Oval Casserole
The Oval Casserole dish is great for roasting meats, preparing side dishes and much more. Below are just two of many delicious recipes this versatile covered baking dish has to offer.
Braised Artichokes and Fennel with Lemon Cream
This Braised Artichokes and Fennel with Lemon Cream recipe is a fun and delicious take on artichokes. This dish takes less than two hours to make and serves four, making it a perfect side dish to bring to a dinner.
After the artichokes have been baked until tender in the Oval Casserole, add the fennel and cook it for a little longer, allowing the vegetables to soak in the delicious aromatics of the braising liquid. The tight-fitting lid on the Oval Casserole Baking Dishes will lock heat and moisture, making for an incredibly flavourful and perfectly cooked dish.
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Lamb Shawarma with Sumac Red Onions
If you are looking for a meal that will really impress your dinner guests, then this Lamb Shawarma with Sumac Red Onions is the perfect recipe. This recipe takes its inspiration from Middle-Eastern cuisine and is packed full of mouth-watering herbs and spices. The Lamb Shawarma takes under three hours to cook and serves up to eight people, but this dish is well worth every hour it takes to prepare it with all the rich flavours coming to the fore.
The heat retention offered by the Oval Casserole delivers a tender, flavour piece of lamb. Be sure to marinate the lamb the night before for maximum flavour, before roasting it for 3 hours and voilà — you will be left with the ultimate show-stopping main course. The easy-to-grip handles on the Oval Covered Casserole baking dishes ensure that it can go from the oven to the table with ease.
Get the recipeRecipes for the Rectangular Casserole
The Rectangular Casserole is great for preparing large dishes, including layered dishes, accommodating family-style portions. This baking dish is perfect for cooking meals for large groups as well as for storing meals made in advance. Here are two recipes that were designed for the Rectangular Casserole.
Yemeni Chicken
This Yemeni Chicken Recipe takes its inspiration from Western Asian cuisine, and is filled with delicious and savoury spices. This dish takes over two hours to make, but once you taste the range of flavours and the perfectly tender meat, you definitely will not regret the time it took to make it. The recipe makes between four and six portions, making it a great option for a family dinner.
The Rectangular Casserole is the perfect dish for this recipe. This piece of cookware is built with heat-retaining stoneware, making it a perfect dish to serve from, and will keep the meal warm for as long as you need with no heat escaping thanks to its tight-fitting lid.
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Lemon Meringue Layered Dessert
For those of you with a sweet tooth, this Lemon Meringue Layered Dessert is the ultimate dessert recipe. With refrigeration time, this recipe takes roughly three hours to prepare, however it serves between 12 and15 people, making it ideal when entertaining large groups. Featuring homemade lemon curd, crème fraîche, and Italian meringue, this recipe is sure to impress your guests and requires minimal effort for a decadent result.
The spacious baking area of the Rectangular Casserole makes it the perfect dish for this recipe, as it provides plenty of room to layer all of the ingredients of your meringue. This covered baking dish is just as adept at storing foods in cold temperatures as it is keeping them warm, so your meringue will be kept perfect until it is ready to be served.
Get the recipeRecipes for the Mini Round Cocotte
Our Mini Round Cocotte can be used for a variety of smaller recipes or for individual servings. Here are two delicious and easy recipes you can make with this piece of bakeware.
Full Breakfast Cocottes
These savoury Full Breakfast Cocottes are the perfect way to bring a unique twist to the traditional breakfast. This breakfast recipe takes over an hour to make and yields four servings that can be customised to include whatever ingredients you desire.
This recipe was specifically created for the Mini Cocottes, a stoneware dish that is crafted to last, providing even heat distribution and superior heat retention. The Mini Cocotte comes in a range of beautiful colours, offering a piece of serveware for your collection.
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Mini Cocotte Cookies with Ice Cream
The Mini Cocotte can also be used to make decadent dessert recipes and breakfast dishes. These Mini Cocotte Cookies with Ice Cream take under an hour to make and serve two or four people depending on how many you make. This recipe makes for a perfect little treat for family and friends, involving minimal effort.
The Cast Iron Mini Cocotte is made with premium Enamelled Cast Iron, meaning that it is just as durable as it is functional. Its compact and bold design makes for one of the best baking dishes that brings an added element to the serving experience of your Mini Cocotte cookies.
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Our Oval Casserole, Rectangular Casserole and Mini Round Cocottes all make for versatile additions to your Le Creuset collection, opening up the possibilities in the kitchen.
The Oval Casserole and its easy-to-grip handles make it the perfect dish for preparing tough cuts of meat and a variety of side dishes. Its oval shape makes it ideal for getting every last bite of a dish onto your plate. The Rectangular Casserole, on the other hand, is ideal for preparing layered dishes, allowing you to serve perfect portions of any sweet or savoury dish. Lastly, the Mini Round Cocottes serve a variety of purposes around the kitchen, from baking individual portions to storing and organizing ingredients.
Durable, stylish, and easy to use, our Covered Casserole baking dishes elevate traditional meal preparation and hosting. For more inspiration, be sure to visit our blog or our FAQ section to learn how you can make the most of these versatile pieces of cookware and bakeware.
