Slow Cooker Chicken Tater Tot Casserole
39 Comments May 07, 2021
Updated Oct 17, 2024
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Make tater tot casserole with chicken and bacon in the slow cooker! This meal just needs 5 hours for the best tater tot casserole you will ever have!
If you love a good tater tot casserole you will also love my slow cooker tater tot casserole, bacon cheeseburger tater tot casserole, or my Shepherd’s Pie Tater Tot Casserole.
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For years I’ve only made ground beef tater tot casserole. This week I made a chicken tater tot casserole that is loaded with cheese and bacon.
I remember the first time I had tater tot casserole. It was at a church potluck. It was something I never had before, in fact my mom never made tater tots! Now years later I am hooked on these fun casserole recipes. Also, try my breakfast tater tot casserole.
How to make Chicken Tater Tot Casserole:
- Start with cream of chicken soup, milk, onion and seasonings.
- Whisk together until smooth.
- Add half a bag of tater tots, cubed chicken and cooked bacon into the bottom of the slow cooker
- Pour over the soup and onion mixture.
- Add the remaining tots, arrange in a neat design if desired.
- Top with sharp cheddar cheese.
How long do I cook?
- Place the lid on the slow cooker.
- I find that cooking tater tot casserole in the slow cooker does best on low, so the edges don’t burn.
- Cook on LOW for 5 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
Can I use ground chicken or turkey?
- Yes, ground chicken or turkey works well in this recipe.
- Brown, crumble and drain the ground chicken or turkey before adding to this recipe.
Can I use a different type of condensed soup in this?
You can use just about any condensed soup (Campbell’s) in this recipe, use two cans. The creamy style are best, don’t use brothy types like tomato or French onion.
- Cream of Mushroom Soup
- Cream of Bacon Soup
- Cream of Celery Soup
- Nacho Cheese Soup
- Cream of Onion Soup
- Broccoli Cheese Soup
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Slow Cooker Chicken Tater Tot Casserole
Ingredients
- 32 oz. frozen tater tots or potato gems
- 1.5 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts (diced), This is about 2 large chicken breasts
- 10 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled (divided)
- 21 oz. cream of chicken soup, (two 10.5-oz. cans)
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp. onion powder
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1 small yellow onion, diced
- 8 oz. shredded sharp cheese, (2 cups)
- 1/4 cup green onions
Instructions
- Place half of the frozen tater tots in the bottom of the slow cooker. Spread them out so they are an even layer.
- Add the cubed chicken in a layer over the tots. Sprinkle over half of the bacon.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the cream of chicken soup, milk, salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder and diced onion.
- Pour this mixture over the tots, chicken and bacon.
- Add remaining tots, arrange them neatly if desired.
- Sprinkle over the cheese.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook on LOW for 5 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- When the cooking time is done add the remaining bacon and sprinkle over the green onion.
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Sarah’s Notes
- Cream of Mushroom Soup
- Cream of Bacon Soup
- Cream of Celery Soup
- Nacho Cheese Soup
- Cream of Onion Soup
- Broccoli Cheese Soup
- Yes, ground chicken or turkey works well in this recipe.
- Brown, crumble and drain the ground chicken or turkey before adding to this recipe.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
I can’t wait to try this..sounds and looks delicious.
Making this for dinner tonight, my sister in law found the recipe on your site snd gave it to me, now I have signed up for the site and anxioofir dinner to get done. My husband keeps going into the kitchen and asking if he can take the lid off my crock pot just to get a better smell of the chiken and bacon. Will let you know how we like it. Thank you for excepting me on your site and look forward to making many of the recipes.
I want to try this recipe tonight for supper. I am a busy working mom and wondering if the same outcome would be reached if it was cooked on high?
Thank you!
Hi! It’s hard to say without testing it. I would think 3.5-4 hours on high would work, just make sure the chicken is cooked through.
Love this recipe, I’m going to try it with ground chicken this time. Because it’s going to be before I put it in the slow cooker should I shorten the cook time in the crock pot?
Yes, I would check it at 4 hours.
Do you recommend turkey or pork bacon?
Hi! Pork bacon is what I used, has a more flavor.
Thanks.
Do you brown or cook the chicken before adding?
No need to for this recipe.
Never heard of tater tots here in UK! What are they?
Do you have potato gems?
Where do I sign up? yummy. Also I have added canned corn.
I can’t wait to try this, but one question on the recipe, I noticed you say 16oz of shredded cheddar cheese and then (2 cups) but 2 cups is only 8 ounces. I mean I love cheese so I’m going with the 16 ounces but just thought I’d mention it.
Yes, thank you . 8 ounces is correct!
Hi! Isn’t there 8 ounces in one cup? So 16 ounces would be 2 cups right? By the way, I love all your recipes, thank you for always giving good content!
Two cups is 16 ounces. Each cup is 8 ounces.
It’s an 8 oz bag of shredded cheese by weight, which is 2 cups of shredded cheese by volume.
Hi Sarah.
Thanks for your many nice recipes.
I live in Denmark and unfortunately there are some stuff that you have in the states that we don’t have here 🙁
Ex. Tater tots is not a thing we can buy here. I found recipes to make my own – so that problem can be fixed 🙂 but the creamy chicken soup I’m not that sure about – and now you write that it’s condensed. I’m not sure what that means. I know we have some condensed milk in a can – but that’s is the only thing condensed I know we can buy here in DK. Do you know if that is something I can make by myself?
Thanks again.
Many greetings from Camilla.
You can make your own condensed soups. Search on Allrecipes.com. I have made mine own because I can’t have gluten and most of them contain wheat flour. They are super easy to make.