Did you eat this as a child? Well here it is, back again. New and improved. It’s a little healthier, a few more vegetables, but still takes you back.
Use either ground turkey or beef. I have been opting for ground turkey a lot recently. It works so well as a replacement to ground beef and is less fat.
Look how fast and easy it is! The hardest part is chopping vegetables!
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Brown your meat and set it aside in a bowl.
Then saute your veggies in butter. You could certainly use cooking spray or even steam them to cut calories.
I personally like the veggies to be quite soft. I don’t like them crunchy in the finished dish. But you do you.
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Add the cooked meat back into the pan and add in the soup and milk.
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Heat it up and cook for a few minutes. Taste it and see if you think it needs salt and pepper…..I don’t think it does.
I throw in a can of green beans because……more vegetables!
Here’s a note……you could pretty much throw in any veggies you wanted. Zucchini comes to mind as a good choice.
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Cover the bottom of the casserole dish with half of the tator tots.
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Spoon on the meat and veggie mixture and cover with the rest of the tator tots.
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When you take it out of the oven it will be all bubbly with crispy tator tots on top. Perfect!
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Tator Tot Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 30-32 ounce bag tator tots or tator rounds, thawed **for a quick thaw, place on baking sheet and cook in preheated oven for 10 minutes.
- 1 pound ground turkey or beef
- 2 T butter or margarine
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 green pepper, choppped
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 can milk **using soup can
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Saute ground turkey or beef. Drain off any grease. Put meat into bowl and set aside.
- In the same pan, melt butter and saute onions and green pepper. Stir and cook until soft.
- Add meat back into the pan with onions and green pepper. Stir in soup and milk. Turn up heat and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Arrange half of the tator tots on bottom of 2½ quart casserole dish.
- Cover with meat and vegetable mixture. Top with remaining tator tots.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes.