Category: Grub Garage
Hi, this is a family favorite recipe.
Tater Tott Caserole
1 bag tater tots
1 lb ground beef
1 can chedder cheese soup
1/2 c shredded chedder cheese
First, brown the ground beef and drain. Then spray the bottom of a caserole dish and place the ground beef on the bottom of the caserole dish to make the first layer. Next, cover the ground beef with the contents of the chedder cheese soup. You can mix the soup and meat together if you would prefer. Finally make a layer of tater Tots on the top. Cover and bake for a half of an hour. Then uncover put the shredded cheese on and cook another 15 to 30 minutes until the top is slightly crisp. Bake at 375.
Enjoy
Hi there MizAngie,
Sound both easy to make
as well as being tasty.
Just an idea though as
I have a habit of substituting ingredients
Seems to me that I might rather use
a can of tomato soup in place of the cheddar cheese soup.
What's neat about this recipe is
that while it is baking one can go ahead
and make a salad.
When it comes from the oven
a balanced meal is ready
and really all that needs to be added is a beverage.
Also I like that this type of a recipe makes
for easy clean-up in that not a lot of
pots and pans are used. *nice :)
The Tomato Soup could be good. I have a friend that adds Salza to hers. And a Salad does go well with this dish.
For clarification, do you thaugh the tator tots 1st? (as usually they're frozen.) I'd assume so, but I also don't like assuming. :)
miah, when i make it I don't. i make it different though. i like it better with chicken, and I put cream of mushroom soup instead of cheeese soup. then put in over for one hour. cover with cheese and bake for another fifteen minutes. it's yummy. it's also good with salsa on the top. i cook the chicken a bit before putting it in the casseroel. cause it don't take as long and I can put it in the forman still frozen.
Yes, I have to agree with Shea. I don't thaw mine. I love different variations, and its always good to experiment with recipies. I had thought of trying ground turkey with this recipe as well.
Thanks for sharring Shea.
Kind regards,
It seems it has been ages since I had a caserole
and had forgotten just how tasty they can be.
Made one for dinner this evening...
Added one small onion minced to the ground beef
as it was cooking/browing on the stove.
I didn't have cheddar cheese for the topping
and rather used the shredded mozeralla cheese I did have.
Marvelous!!
Thanks for the Great suggestions here.
I'm sooo glad you enjoyed the recipies. Its always good to have a recipe you can use as a base and then alter it to fit your likes.
Kind regards,
if you like ground turkey, it is yummy that way also. i was taught to make it similar to the way shan does. except hamburger instead of chicken. sometimes i add peas in with the meat and soup, then line the tator tots up on top. i add a bit of shredded cheese towards the end of cooking also. you could do so much with this.
Thanks for sharing Pipi.
sounds like something I'm gonna have to try...maybe the family will get a kick out of this
Oh man this brings back memories. Mom was a high class white trash cook. I miss her cooking even if it was just tater tots some baked chicken and canned green beans. I've gone beyond what she knew about cooking but you can't beat the standards. I make a few concessions in cooking these days, cream of mushroom soup, boxed stuffing frozen veggies, and the slow cooker. Any cookbook before say 1980 will have basic techniques for cooking. If you don't have it already get Cooking Without Looking. An oldy but goody. I grab old cookbooks from the internet archive as well. Oh, you can do so much with those bags of frozen chicken breasts. Now I have to buy tater tots when I go to the store today. Tiffany
Oh yes, what to do with the chicken breasts? Take 4 or five depending on howmany your feeding, add a can of cream of chicken or cream of mushroom, then a can of water with a crumbled chicken bouleon cube. Over the chicken sprinkle some sharp chedar cheese. Then a box of stuffing. Pour some melted butter over all this and bake till a fork meets no resistance in the largest piece of chicken. Bake at 350. Serve with steamed veggies and fresh fruit. Enjoy. Tiffany
This sounds really good Tiffany, and really easy to make on a day where there is a lot to get done. Thanks for sharing
.
A friend of mine loves this casserole. She makes it just like the original, except that she puts a can of corn in with the tots. I myself have tried several variations, but always come back to the original recipe. somehow, it's so quick, simple and easy that one can't help but become hooked on it. Yum.
I've got a recipe my mom uses that I really like. It uses Crispy Crowns instead of Tater Tots since as far as I'm concerned Crispy Crowns are much more flavorful. It also uses chicken instead of ground beef or turkey and Cream of Chicken soup instead of Cream of Mushroom or cheese soup. What you do is pour the soup into a bowl and then add milk (just fill the empty soup can with milk and pour it into the bowl). Then just mix the soup and the milk together. Then you take some grilled chicken breast and slice it into bite-size pieces and put them, along with the mixture of the soup and milk, into a casserole dish. This is obviously the dish you'll be cooking the casserole in. Then you add a few handfuls of crispy crowns (the amount is up to you). Then you take a can of string beans or green beans if you want and add that, then more Crispy Crowns. You want to layer it. Then stir it together a little. Then you put it in the oven with the lid on the casserole dish at a temp of about 400 for about an hour or so, although if you want you can take it out fifteen minutes before the timer goes off and add a little salt and pepper. You just want to cook it long enough so that the crowns are as their name implies, a little crispy on the outside. We went through a stretch a couple years ago where this casserole was what we had for dinner every monday because my dad has this habit of saying I don't care when my mom asks him what he wants for dinner, then saying he would have preferred something else when she just makes something. So my mom decided that we'd have this casserole every monday. It fast became my favorite day of the week...
This sounds so good. I need tater tots now. This recipe will be wonderful on those nights I don't know what to make, but my Little Bit needs to eat, so I would love to make it for her. I think she'd like it, or play with it, either way, it sounds so'o good
Like I said I tend to use those Crispy Crowns since in my opinion they're more flavorful than regular Tots. But the recipe is definitely scrumptious. LOL.
if you go on cooks.com, thre are 50 some odd tater tot recipes. i love them and use cream of mushroom soup instead of the cheese soup. it is also good with cream of chicken soup. i either use the ground beef with the shroom soup or the chicken with that soup.
The aire has a chill in it hinting of Autumnal Days
A warming nourishment providing caserole sounds especially desired.
just a thought but if you don't like the idea of tater tots, you can substite potatoes cut small and it tastes good too.
And your speaking of cutting up small potatoes
gives me to consider that I suppose what also
could be used would be boiled potatoes.
So oft I will make them and then so many left-overs.
So I am now thinking, why not use these up the next day
as this type of a topping shared here.
Only the need to adjust the cooking time, etc. given
they are not frozen being added and are already cooked through.
It is just that so oft with the boiled potatoes left overs
that I make up a potatoe salad and this would be
a great change of pace... and taste :)
grace,
that is an exceelent idea. you know another thing you can do with left over boiled potatoes is mfry them. they are so good. just chop in to small pieces and fry with some onion and/or green pepper. oh yes and you can make great potato pancakes with them too.
well, for as oft as I use my microwave
and I am thinking that mfry is to
microfry foods..???
Yes, that sounds delish!
..never had potato pancakes though
I have had pancakes with a side of hash browns
only not potato pancakes
That sounds like what a person would prepare if
making a "pancake supper"
A bit of drift here but my wife started making what she calls potato logs, they come out like Texas fries but as she says, healthier.
Just slice the potatoes spray a cookie sheet with Pam or whatever oil, I did 'em once with EVOO (extra virgin olive oil) and lay them down, cover them with a little salt and pepper, put them in the oven at 425 for an hour I think it is then the outside is crisp and the inside really good.
But back to tater tots, one of my fav brewhouses actually serves tater tots. really good with a good stiff dark ale.
I'm sorry, I must be australian or something, but wtf is a tater tot?
lol
I'm sure someone will tell you all about what tator tots are
..only I am so in need of coffee right now
that I am speechless to telling exactly
what these morsels so tasty are...
stay tuned, someone ought to be along shortly :)
well, I'm back..
Thot someone would have responded by now
..tator tots are like mini hash browns, uncooked and like
into a little squared rectangle molded.
Extremely small in size, liken to a donut hole, only smaller.
Sold in the freezer dept. of grocery stores.
They are tasty taken from the bag and baked and
can be eaten like how you would french fries
in that they can be dipped in catsup, etc.
or used as how described in these many posts.
Some of them are more...sylendrical I suppose? I think it depends on the brand in some cases.
I will try tatertot caserole this week I like onions so I will fry them with some beef.
interesting recipe but I don't eat beef and don't like cheese all that much.
we have found that adding a bag of mixed veggies to what i said above... and it's sooo yummy!!!