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Learn how to make Crock Pot Tator Tot Casserole Recipe. Your slow cooker does all the work and you will come home to this cheesy and delicious casserole waiting.
Crock Pot Tator Tot Casserole Recipe
Our entire family goes crazy over Cheesy Tator Tot Casserole. It’s loaded with hearty meat and lots of cheese.
The kids absolutely love it and it is so easy! We have always baked this amazing casserole but recently wanted to try it in the slow cooker.
You might also want to try Crock Pot Chicken Tater Tot Casserole or Cheeseburger Tater Tot Casserole Recipe. However you decide to make this, it is sure to impress!
Slow Cooker Tator Tot casserole recipe is so easy!
If you are in the market for a new crockpot, I love this casserole crock pot. It is perfect for casserole style slow cooker recipes.
I bought mine on Amazon,and I love it. It is perfect for the Holidays and really year round.
Plus, it is just so pretty. We can still enjoy all our favorite casserole recipes without ever turning the oven on.
If you prefer a traditional style crock pot, I recommend one of the Ninja Cookers. I love these because you can brown the meat in the same pot.
It really cuts down on clean up and that is a plus for busy moms.
Another favorite is this programmable crock pot for when I am am not at home all day. I love coming home to a nice meal ready and waiting!
I also like to use crock pot liners to make clean up a breeze. These are worth every penny and save a ton of time.
This is especially helpful during busy weeks of school and activities. I’m all about crock pot liners.
If you do not use crock pot liners, I recommend using cooking spray to help with clean up in the slow cooker.
Let’s get started making this easy tater tot casserole!
Ingredients for crock pot tator tot casserole:
- 2 pounds ground beef, browned
- 1 can Cream of mushroom soup
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons pepper
- 16 oz package frozen tator tots
- 3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
How to make Tater Tot Casserole in the slow cooker:
1. Brown ground beef and add the browned beef to the crock pot.
2. Stir in the cream of mushroom soup, minced garlic, salt and pepper.
3. Top with half of the cheese.
4. Then spread out the frozen tator tops evenly over the crock pot.
5. Cover and cook on low for 2-3 hours. Or cook on high but reduce cooking time.
6. 30 minutes before you are ready to eat top with the remaining shredded cheddar cheese.
This easy tator tot casserole crock pot recipe is also very versatile.
You can add a can of cream of mushroom soup and make it more creamy. You can add taco seasoning and a can of rotel or salsa and make it a taco tator tot casserole.
We have even added fresh mushroom. Yum!
Sometimes we add onion or green pepper. I think it gives the ground beef really good flavor and it is a nice way to change it up a bit.
If I dice the onion and pepper really small, the kids don’t know it is in the meat mixture.
I use a small food chopper or food processor to quickly and easily chop onions. If you do not have one of these, I highly recommend them.
They are such a time saver and you can get the veggies really fine if you have kids like mine.
I usually just chop the entire vegetable and freeze what I don’t need. It’s so nice to be able to just take the diced onion out of the freezer for recipes.
Learn and how to freeze onions and also how to freeze peppers to save so much time in the kitchen!
This is how I meal prep. It’s so quick and easy and helps get dinner on the table fast.
We have even tried Crock Pot Tater Tot casserole with green beans!
The possibilities are endless with this simple tator tot casserole recipe.
Try some of these other ideas for Crock Pot Tater Tot Cheeseburger Casserole:
- Add bacon and make it a bacon cheeseburger tatortot casserole. YUM!
- Try cream of chicken with the meat mixture. (We make Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup.)
- Add in the sauce from our Quick and Easy BBQ Sloppy Joes Recipe and make a sloppy joes tator tot casserole
- Try using shredded hash browns instead of tater tots in this casserole.
- Use ground turkey instead of ground beef.
- Add sour cream to the meat mixture.
We love trying new things with this easy casserole. It is so delicious and our entire family always gobbles this up.
Everyone will love this Easy Cheesy Tater Tot Casserole Recipe!
Since there are so many delicious ways to fix this tasty casserole, your family will never get tired of it. They will feel like they are eating different recipes.
We absolutely love this recipe and it is so nice coming home to dinner waiting. With 8 kids we are always running somewhere.
Schedules are busy and activities are plentiful. Dinner often gets pushed to the back and take out is tempting.
Try this easy recipe and save time and money!
Print this Crock Pot Tator Tot Casserole Recipe below:
Crock Pot Tator Tot Casserole
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef browned
- 1 can Cream of mushroom soup
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons pepper
- 16 oz package frozen tator tots
- 3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Brown ground beef and add the browned beef to the crock pot.
- Stir in the cream of mushroom soup, minced garlic, salt and pepper.
- Top with half of the cheese.
- Then spread out the tator tops evenly over the crock pot.
- Cover and cook on low for 2-3 hours. Or cook on high but reduce cooking time.
- 30 minutes before you are ready to eat top with the remaining shredded cheddar cheese.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition Facts
More Tator tot casseroles
- Easy Beef Enchilada Tator Tot Casserole Recipe
- Cheeseburger Tator Tot Casserole Recipe
- Cowboy Casserole Recipe
What size Crockpot is best to use?
Used Sage sausage instead of hamburger. Also added 1 can of corn and 1 can of red beans.
I used 1 box of Ragu cheese sauce in place of the mushroom soup.
Another time I used leftover taco beef and mixed in some diced mild green chilis along with the cheese sauce.
Thank you for commenting!
This recipe was easy and tasty! I added chopped bell pepper and onion. I will scale back on black pepper next time. Two teaspoons made it too zesty for my youngest.
Turned out great.Insead of cream of mushroom I used cheddar soup and doubled up on the chesse!
Simply the best tasty and filling meal for these cold days.
yummy
One of the only casseroles my kids will eat! They love tater tots. I’m just thankful they want to eat what I’ve served them! It’s a win win!
Easy recipe that everyone goes back for seconds. One of my favorite easy, comfort food meals.
Yes, I drain the ground beef before adding it to the crock pot.
Do you drain the ground beef before putting it in the crockpot?
Yes, if your crock pot has a stovetop or sauté setting, you can brown the meat on that setting than drain the excess grease. Then follow the remaining instructions from there.
Can I brown the meat in the crockpot first?
I haven’t made this in the instant pot before. To make this one in the oven, layer the ingredients in a 9X13 baking pan then bake uncovered at 375 degrees F for 25-30 minutes. I hope you enjoy it!
Hi! Can you share how this can be made in an instapot or in the oven for those without crockpots? Thanks!
This is an easy go to when you are short on time and need to throw something together in a pinch. I almost always have the ingredients available! Saves us from fast food. Often!
Super easy and so tasty!
This recipe was so simple and delicious. My family loved it. Always looking for simple slow cooker meals and this was a great one. Will defiantly be making again.
Great recipe for my family! Super easy to make as they all are!
This Recipe is amazing, Easy fast and everyone in my family loves it. I mean who doesnt like tator tots!
This recipe is similar to this one but uses potatoes instead of tator tots so I would make this one instead. https://www.eatingonadime.com/how-to-make-hamburger-casserole/
If I dont have tator tots could I slice up potatos??
I think sour cream might work but I haven’t tried it. Thanks.
What can I substitute for this cream soup? I dont like any of these campbell soups.
Pamela – Sorry about that. You put all the tator tots on top after the meat mixture. I have corrected the post. I hope you enjoy it!
The recipe indicates that you start by placing half of the tots in the crock pot & then add all other ingredients, but the recipe doesn’t actually say this. Later in the recipe, it says to add the “remaining” tots on top & add additional cheese on top of this.
Do you place tots in the crock pot first??