his Tater Tot Casserole recipe is one of those recipes that I had to beg my mother to try. She said it just didn’t sound good. So I made a big batch and showed up at her house. She took one bite and her eyes got big as dollars. “This really is good, what did you say was in it?”. It has become one of her all time favorite meals. I hope you get to try it soon. If there were such a thing as a recipe being too simple, this just might be it. But it’s oooh so good!
Recipe Ingredients:
- Ground beef (already browned, with onion in it if you like)
- Cream of mushroom soup (can use fat free)
- Frozen tater tots
- Milk
The full printable recipe is at the bottom of the post.
How to Make A Tater Tot Casserole Recipe Step by Step
Browning Your Beef First
I like to brown my beef ahead of time and keep it in the freezer to make meals like this one a breeze to put together.
Here I am browning my meet with some onions to give it a bit of flavor
I have browned as much as thirty pounds of ground beef in one day and then store it in zipper seal baggies. I generally put about a cup in each bag and then get out one or two bags depending on how much I decide I need. Drain off grease.
Place this in the bottom of your 8×8 baking dish.
Cover in frozen tater tots.
Pour your cream soup in a cup and add about a cup and a half of milk to it.
Stir well.
It will still be lumpy but as long as you put forth the effort to give it a good stir it’ll be fine.
Pour your soup over all of this.
Cover with foil and bake at 350 for about thirty minutes.
A lot of recipes don’t have you covering it and I used to do mine that way but I’ve found it is even better if you cover it up a bit. If you’d like your tater tots nice and browned, uncover the last ten minutes of cooking.
Enjoy.
If you have any leftovers, this taste even better reheated!
Do you make tater tot casserole for your family? I’d love to hear about it!
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 small onion chopped, optional
- 1 package frozen tater tots about 1 pound
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup can use fat free
- 1 cup milk
Instructions
- Brown beef and onion together until done, drain off any grease (I brown my beef ahead of time and store it in the freezer to make this quicker). Place ground beef mixture in bottom of 8x8 baking dish. Top with frozen tater tots. In small bowl stir together cream soup and milk. Pour over tater tots. Cover with foil and bake at 350 for thirty minutes.
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Notes
You may also like this other tater tot recipes:
And here are some easy casserole recipes:
Sloppy Joes Casserole Deep Dish Recipe
Crunchy Beef Casserole (and my casserole dish collection)
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I think this might be good with some country gravy over it instead of the soup. 🙂
I like the way you think John!! 😉
are there other options instead of cream of mushroom,and cream of celery?
You are limited only by your imagination 🙂 Just know that whatever you use will change the flavor of the recipe so that won’t be on me, but I’m sure it will be good! Maybe alfredo? hmmm…
I put seasoned meat on bottom..then cream mushroom soup mixed with about a cup of sour cream..garlic powder and onion powder.. then line up the tots on top. Bake about 30 minutes and add cheese and French fried onions on top. One of our favorite dishes.
You know as a gluten free option I use a cheap alfredo sauce jar instead of cream soup in recipes. I just lower added liquid.
well that is stinking genius! I bet it is lower carb as well (for low carb recipes – which this one isn’t, lol). Thank you!
I have made this Tater Tot Casserole numerous times and have finally perfected it. The secret is to bake the frozen tater tots until almost done first. Do this while you are browning the ground beef. Then you will be able to get away with baking it for only 30 minutes and have piping hot and a slight crunch to the tater tots. Placing frozen tater tots on top without partially cooking them first would occasionally give me tots still slightly cool after 30 minutes.
I so love this dish. It’s just GOOD EATING. There is a time and place for a homemade white sauce and this is NOT one of them. You just can’t duplicate the flavor of cream soup in this. In my opinion, it will taste wrong. Save that extra effort for something else and save this recipe for when you want something quick and easy, but don’t want to go though the drive thru. You will love it.
Well said Jackie!!
I love some tater tot casserole
I often use cheez whiz and a jar of salsa instead of soup. Also top with shredded cheese.
Love all of your recipes❤️
Stir thing up and try this with Sweet potato tots! Low-carbers can use the Cauliflower/Broccoli/Zucchini tots and a low carb gravy.
Great idea Barbara!!!
I love your soapbox story. I’ve made this recipe a few times. Last time I doubled the soup (I made your Mushroom Soup recipe) and mixed half into the beef too. This time I want to use ground chicken instead of beef and see how it turns out. TY