It does everything from crisp the bacon, brown the hamburger, and bake the hotdish in the oven. No additional pans needed so clean-up is a snap.Įasy weeknight dinner. This is a super easy recipe to throw together on a weeknight, but fun and flavorful enough for a Friday night. This may not be a classic Minnesota tater tot hotdish, but a bubbling skillet of ground beef, bacon, gooey cheese, and crispy tater tots is still pretty comforting. Tater tot hotdish without condensed soup. If you know anything about the Midwest, then you might know about tater tot hotdish - or what the rest of you call a casserole. Traditionally, it includes 3 non-negotiable ingredients: meat, condensed soup, and tater tots, baked in a 9x13 pan. In this recipe, I skipped the condensed soup and baked it in a cast iron skillet. I may get kicked out of the state.īacon cheeseburger hotdish. So the inspiration for this recipe came from my husband’s favorite cheat day meal: a bacon cheeseburger with pepper jack cheese and sweet potato fries. So to make this more cheeseburger-esque, you’ll find tomato sauce & paste (standing in for ketchup) and Dijon mustard mixed in with the ground beef. Sweet potato fries are just so darned delicious. And thankfully they’re available in tot form. You could use regular tater tots, of course, but the sweet potato tater tots bring sweetness to the dish. And a creamier texture - which is nice when you’re making a comforting hot dish. How to make Bacon Cheeseburger Sweet Potato Tater Tot CasseroleĬut the bacon into 1” pieces. Heat a 10 ½ inch cast iron skillet over medium heat and fry the bacon until crispy. Remove the bacon from the pan and place on a plate lined with paper towels. Keep 2 tablespoons of the bacon drippings in the pan. Next, brown the ground beef and onion in the bacon drippings in the cast iron skillet. Add 2 sliced green onions, tomato sauce, tomato paste, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, cayenne pepper (optional), and salt and pepper. Simmer for 5-10 minutes or until thickened. Place ½ of the bacon over the ground beef mixture. Top your sweet potato tater tot casserole with the remaining bacon and green onions.Īrrange the sweet potato tater tots over the cheese.Īdd one more cup of cheese over the tater tots and bake for 15-20 more minutes or until the cheese is golden brown. If you prefer not to use bacon, you could use pancetta, smoked sausage, ham, or Canadian bacon. You can definitely substitute regular tater tots for the sweet potato tater tots in this hotdish. Any kind of ground meat will taste delicious in this tater tot hotdish recipe. You can use ground pork, turkey, or chicken. A lot of people worry about using ground turkey or chicken in recipes because they think it will be dry or flavorless. Since the ground meat is browned in bacon fat, and then simmered in a rich sauce, your result should be plenty moist and flavorful.ĭijon mustard. I use Dijon mustard because that’s what I always have. But yellow or spicy brown mustard will absolutely work. Just use 1 teaspoon of dry for every tablespoon of prepared mustard. Worcestershire sauce is one of those things that you might think is always in the door of the fridge, even if it isn’t. Or wait, is that just me? I’ve used soy sauce as a replacement before in this tater tot recipe, which added the rich umami flavor I was going for. TATER TOT CHEESEBURGER CASSEROLE HOW TOĬheck out even more substitutes for Worcestershire sauce here.
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