Tatertot Hot Dish

[zarhooie]

Poll #2535 Tatertot Hot Dish

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Do you know what tatertot hot dish is?

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Yes, of course
24 (38.1%)

No idea what you're talking about, crazycakes
39 (61.9%)

What goes into your tatertot hot dish?

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hamburger (cooked)
18 (75.0%)

hamburger (raw)
1 (4.2%)

corn
9 (37.5%)

green items (peas, green beans)
12 (50.0%)

cream of mushroom/chicken/broccoli
20 (83.3%)

cheese
15 (62.5%)

tatertots (arranged properly)
17 (70.8%)

tatertots (just dumped on)
8 (33.3%)

milk/other liquid poured over top
8 (33.3%)

other
6 (25.0%)

What else goes into your tatertot hot dish?

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2 lbs of raw burger
one can condensed cream of mushroom soup
one can corn niblets, drained well
one package onion tatertots (frozen) [you can use regular ones if you want)
A few handfuls of cheese (optional)
Apprx 10oz milk (or about one soup can's worth)

In a 9x12 pan (glass or metal), pat hamburger down in an even layer.
On top of this, spread soup.
On top of this, spread corn.
On top of this, arrange tatertots in pleasing geometric pattern. To dump is to blaspheme.
You can add cheese now if you want to. I don't.

The above arrangement can be covered tightly and frozen, put in the fridge for up to 2 days, or used immediately.

When ready to bake, heat oven to 350*. Pour one can milk over the whole thing. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes or until burger is done.

This is comfort food of the highest order.

-Kat

Comments

[killing_rose]

Round this way, we refer to it as tater tot casserole and it's one of the few foods that I totally miss since I went dairy, gluten, and soy free. Making it to suit my dietary needs would defeat the purpose. I've never seen anyone put corn in it--that would involve Vegetables, and I think whoever originally came up with my family's version was scared of them.

Mind you, my family thinks that adding together Italian sausage and hamburger makes it three thousand times better. (I agree with this assessment.) We cook the meat mixture first, mostly because of an incident perpetrated by yours truly at age six. We had a babysitter, babysitter spoke primarily Russian, and I was tetchy about the subject of a babysitter. Babysitter tried taking directions from me as to how to make dinner. The resultant tater tot casserole ended up with a raw meat mixture that didn't quite finish cooking. I plead the fifth as to how sick the household became.

[zarhooie]

I've been putting this together since I was about that old also, but have successfully escaped making anyone sick in that time.

I *hate* the flavor of italian sausage. hate hate hate.

Hmmm.... you could try http://www.recipezaar.com/Non-Dairy-Cream-of-Mushroom-Soup-Substitute-107359 maybe? I'd leave out the liquid at the end, though. Last time I checked, burger and corn were gluten free, and potatoes too. So really, all you'd need to get around would be the cream of whatever soup! Not too hard. :)

[holyschist]

I wouldn't trust the tater tots unless they were explicitly gluten- and soy-free. Soybean oil is a common ingredient, and gluten ends up in all kinds of things.

[zarhooie]

True... You could do this with hashbrowns though! Of the spread-y hash-y variety. Mmmmm... I may need to try that.