Tater Tot Casserole
What’s your favorite comfort food? Well, my favorite comfort food is tater tot casserole. Yeah, this casserole may not be the most glamorous meal you can make, but it’s sure delicious!
To make this tater tot casserole, you start by browning hamburger in a skillet with diced onion, season with salt and pepper, add 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup, a little milk, and 2 cans of green beans. Then pour the ground beef mixture over a bag of frozen tater tots in your slow cooker. Cook on low for 4 to 5 hours, top with cheese and you’re ready to eat!
Tater Tot Casserole
Ingredients
- 32 ounce bag tater tots
- 1 pound ground beef
- 2 cans (10 3/4 ounce each) cream of mushroom soup
- 1 small onion diced
- 2 cans (14.5 ounces each) green beans
- 1/2 cup milk
- salt and pepper
- 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Brown ground beef in a skillet with onion, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Add the cans of cream of mushroom soup, and milk, stir to combine.
- Fold in green beans to meat mixture.
- Spray your slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray
- Place entire bag of tater tots on the bottom of your slow cooker
- Pour the meat mixture over the tots.
- Cook on low for 4 to 5 hours
- Add cheese to top, and unplug slow cooker.
- Let set for 5-10 minutes before serving.
Notes
I used a 6 quart slow cooker. This recipe could be cut in half if you have a smaller slow cooker.
Copyright Sarah Olson 2014
My family is picky and doesn’t like mushrooms or green beans. I fried 1 lb hamburger, mixed with 2 cans creamed corn, then poured over 4 cups tater tots. 4 hours later (on low) it was amazing. Serves 3-4 people. I didn’t add any cheeses or milk.
Kim- That is such a great idea, dairy and gluten free!
Did you not add any soups either?
I cannot stomach tater tots so cut up potatoes into cubes and used Vegan Meat Crumbles for the ground beef and it turned out amazing too.
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I love tater tots! This is a rocking recipe! I think it’d be great at a potluck or even for a brunch. Thanks!
This sounds so good!I never thought to make it in the slow cooker!
I’ve heard of tater tot casserole, but in the slow cooker I will have to try!
My husband was just asking me to make this the other day! Now I have a great recipe to make – thank you, looks and sounds delish!
I just put all of the mixture in the Crock Pot. It only took me 30 minutes! Awesome! And it looks amazing! Thanks for a great recipe!
I grew up on this stuff and cook it regularly. I do it all different though. I use cream of mushroom soup and cream of celery mixed with the browned hamburger. Put all that in a casserole dish and top with a solid layer of tater tots. place in oven on 350 degrees for about 30mins or until the tater tots are golden brown then take out of oven, spread out a layer of shredded cheddar cheese and place back in oven. Let it cook until the cheese is melted then it’s ready to eat!!
Do you drain your beef after browning? Or is the extra grease needed for the recipe, I would drain normally.
I would drain James! Great question!
I mix rotel tomatoes & green chili and Cambell’s Fiesta Nacho Cheese Soup with the meat and pour it over cooked tator tots in a cake pan and put it in the oven with shredded cheese on top. My family LOVES it. You can fry the tator tots or cook them in the oven. The crock pot idea would work too.
Could you use cream of potato soup instead. Hubby does not like mushroom or mushroom soup
If you could find cream of onion or celery (if he’d eat it) that would be less chunky. But the cream of potato would work fine in a pinch. 🙂
I made this for a Packer game and it was a total hit !! Added extra cheese of course.
Why not use 2 cans of cheese soup and avoid the need for a cheese topping?
You could if you like cheese soup! 🙂
Someone brought this to us after I’d had a baby and it was delicious! Do you drain the canned green beans?
yes do drain them! 🙂
Do u stir frequently or let it cook
I let it cook. 🙂
are the tots supposed to get crunchy?
no, they turn into a casserole, I think they taste good.
Can you use frozen green beans?
I think they will work fine!
Most wonderful, tasty comfort food. My wife and I devoured it – thank you Sarah for the recipe!