Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, cheesy tater casserole. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

When the days get a little shorter and the weather gets cooler, whipping up a quick and easy comfort food dinner is our most favorite way to end the day. This quick and easy casserole recipe is the BEST Tater Tot Beef Casserole recipe! Brown ground beef, add onion to saute, drain, set aside.

Cheesy Tater Casserole is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Cheesy Tater Casserole is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cheesy tater casserole using 12 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Tater Casserole:

1. Get onion, chopped
2. Get bacon
3. Prepare chives
4. Make ready oregano
5. Make ready basil
6. Take campbells cheddar cheese soup
7. Prepare velveeta sharp cheddar cheese
8. Take whole milk
9. Get extra lean ground beef
10. Take your favorite season salt (i used a prime rib season salt)
11. Take tillamook mild cheddar cheese
12. Make ready tater tots

It all gets topped off with cheese and tater tots and then baked until hot, bubbly, and crispy on top! The backbone of this tater tot casserole (and really ANY casserole) is the canned goods: sweet corn, black beans, diced green chilies, and enchilada sauce. Canned foods are what make casseroles so appealing, because they're delicious, accessible, easy to use, and have a very long shelf life. Cheesy and comforting tater tot casseroles are an easy and delicious way to feed a crowd..

Steps to make Cheesy Tater Casserole:

1. Cut bacon into bit size pieces and brown
2. Remove bacon from pan but leave grease
3. Toss in chopped onion and brown for 4-5 minutes, then add ground beef.
4. Add seasoning salt, basil & oregano to ground beef mixture
5. Brown meat and seasonings until ground beef has nice crisp edges (keep setting on burner at 5 or 6)
6. Mix 2 cups milk and cheddar cheese soup in a sauce pan and set burner at 5.
7. Chop Velveeta sharp cheddar cheese into small cubes and add to milk and soup mixture. When a creamy sauce has developed and all cheese is mixed in pull from burner.
8. Mix the beef mixture and cheese sauce together (if beef has too much grease in it drain it first)
9. Spread mixture in bottom of 5x9 nonstick pan
10. Shread Tillamook mild cheddar cheese if it wasn't bought already shread.
11. Sprinkle a little shreaded cheese to top of mixture in pan
12. Add an even layer of tater tots to top of mixture in 5x9 and salt and pepper them to your liking
13. Sprinkle the rest of the Tillamook cheese on top then evenly spread bacon and chives
14. Bake at 400 until top looks golden brown

This is a tastier version of Tater Tot® casserole with hearty ingredients for a full meal. Made with Owens® Original Breakfast Sausage, Ro*Tel® Diced Tomatoes, frozen broccoli cuts and Ore-Ida® Tater Tots®. I like it because it is easier than. I created this recipe over time in homage to the original from Opie's BBQ in Spicewood, TX. Some things to note: Ore-Ida tater tots have lots of salt and seasoning; typically off-brand do not.

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