Bacon Cheeseburger Tater Tot Casserole – hamburger, bacon, cheese, cheese soup, sour cream and tater tots – what’s not to love? We ate this twice in one day! Can be made ahead of time and refrigerated or frozen for later. You can also divide it between two 8×8-inch foil pans and freeze one. Great for a potluck and tailgating this fall!
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Pin This RecipeI can’t get enough of this Bacon Cheeseburger Tater Tot Casserole! It was SO good. Like, really, really, really good. We ate this for lunch and dinner the same day! That should tell you how much we liked it. Hamburger, bacon, cheese, cheese soup, sour cream and tater tots – what’s not to love? Just heat up some green beans and you have a full meal!
This Bacon Cheeseburger Tater Tot Casserole can be made ahead of time and refrigerated or frozen for later. You can also divide it between two 8×8-inch foil pans if you don’t need to feed a larger family. We actually have a pan in the freezer right now!
This Bacon Cheeseburger Tater Tot Casserole is guaranteed to please the whole family. You can even add some tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms and onions to the mixture if you wanted to jazz it up. It would be great for a potluck. I think this would be perfect for tailgating this Fall too!
Bacon Cheeseburger Tater Tot Casserole
Ingredients:
- 1½ pounds ground beef
- ¾ cup cooked chopped bacon
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 (32-oz) package frozen tater tots
- 1 (10.5-oz) can condensed cheddar cheese soup
- 1 (16-oz) container sour cream
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray a 9×13-inch pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- Cook ground beef in a large skillet until no longer pink. Drain fat.
- In a large bowl, combine cooked beef, bacon, cheddar cheese, tater tots, cheese soup, and sour cream. Mix until thoroughly combined.
- Spread mixture into prepared pan.
- Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until bubbly.
Notes:
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My Daughter is visiting and cooked this up for us. It was amazing. So good. I teach a class teaching youth how to cook up healthy meals. I think I might like to try this one, as it’s easy to make and even my husband that doesn’t like sour cream didn’t even taste the sour cream in this meal.
This casserole is AMAZING!! My husband loves burgers so he loved it and our little one enjoyed it as well. I used ground turkey instead of ground beef(added more seasoning and Worcestershire) and added a few table spoons of ketchup and mustard after cooking the meat to give it an extra burger taste! Delicious!
Very good. Glad there is some leftover for lunch tomorrow.
Super easy cut recipe in half but was very tasty will add to rotation! I love tater tot casserole and this just adds different spin 🍽 yum bacon and sour cream you can’t go wrong
Added Montreal steak seasoning, onions, ketchup and dill pickle relish. So good!!!
Sounds delicious!
I like your ideas, Jean. If you made the full 9×13 recipe, how much dill pickle relish did you use? Thank you!
I made this recipe tonight and I was very, very delicious! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Since my husband is not a fan of tator tots, wonder if you couldn’t just use raw diced potatoes? Might have to try it.
I made this tonight put a twist on the recipe and it was amazing!! I had to cook some sirloins so I used steak and bacon, I like to have a little kick to my dishes so I used a heaping tablespoon of pico, chopped some onion added garlic and I used nacho cheese sauce no soup. I cooked the meats separate from the pico, cheese sauce onion 1/2 cup sour cream once the sauce was warm I mixed the meat in. I cooked the tots then layered tots mixture tots topped it with shredded cheese baked for 10 min broiled the last few to golden the cheese. Yummy!!!
Sounds delicious!
What can you use instead of cheese soup for gluten free?
I made this recipe dairy free. I used dairy free sour cream, dairy free cheese & instead of cream of cheddar soup I used the daiya brand Mac n cheese sauce! It actually tastes the same as the original recipe 🙂
I love how easily folks can play with this recipe to make it their own. I really think that it started out as the traditional tater tot casserole and just got twisted a bit here and there to become a whole new (yummy) bacon cheeseburger tater tot casserole! One note: I make tater tot casserole and funeral potatoes and after dozens of times, I found that low fat or even better non fat sour cream work better for these recipes. They have a better taste when cooked in the dish than the regular sour cream does. Crazy, I know, but it’s true.
I ALWAYS precook the tots for at least 1/2 the normal cooking instructions…. avoids soggy tots
Best tator tot casserole ever
Could you use heavy cream or milk instead of sour cream… not a fan.
The best thing in this casserole and is fantastic is cream of bacon soup, in place of the cheese soup ,leave out the bacon and it cuts calories to The flavor is fantastic
I took some pointers from other folks here and added onion (and garlic) to the ground beef, with a little seasoning salt. Used tater rounds and some cut in half tater tots as topping only, and gave them a light shake of Cajun seasoning. Topped with some additional cheese the last 5 minutes in the oven. Since I modified a little, I won’t star rate, but BOY was it tasty!
Is there anything I can substitute the cheese soup for?
You can use any can of cream of soup you have on hand.
Can you use bacon pieces to substitute cooked, chopped bacon?
absolutely! I usually buy a big bag of precooked bacon pieces at Sam’s or Costco to use in recipes like this. Enjoy!
I have made this several times. Family fav! We like to drizzle ketchup and mustard on it and top it off with pickles (after it's cooked). I also like to add sauted onions to mine and it just gives it extra yummy flavor. Sometimes (when I remember) I add chopped onion to the hamburger when it's cooking. I use bacon instead of bacon bits. I cook my tots while browning the hamburger to make them crispy and then I put a layer on the bottom and a layer on top (we like crispy tots). Once the top layer gets crispy I top it with cheese (I only put maybe ¹/⁴ cup of shredded cheese in the mixture), let that melt and tada!
Is there a crockpot version? It is way too hot to use the oven. It looks really good and I want to try it out but during the summer, I cant use the oven.
Hubby and I loved it. I made a few changes like cooking the tater tots first, then lined them on the bottom of the dish. I reserved 1cup shredded cheese for topping. I added one shallot to the ground beef. I cooked 1/2 lb of bacon and diced it. I don't really care for bacon bits. I mixed all the remaining ingredients. I layered the mixture over the tater tots and topped with cheddar cheese and baked for 20 min at 350. Plain chicken thank you for the inspiration.
I put half the tater tots in thehe mixture, and half on top. Then right before i take it out, I put cheese and bacon bits on top of the crispy tater tots. It's delicious.
I like putting the tater tots on the top in rows instead of mixing in. they stay crunchy that way. Great recipe!
After you freeze it, how long do you bake it from frozen?
I have never baked this frozen. So, I cannot answer with certainty. As always, please use your best judgment regarding modifications.
I dont eat sour cream. Will it be ok without the sour cream
I’ve never made this without sour cream, so I am unable to say with certainty what it would taste like
My boyfriend doesn't like sour cream so I am thinking of using 2 cans of cheese instead. Any other suggestions?
What is something you could make for a side dish?
Green beans, Lima beans, asparagus, sautéed mushrooms
Do you think this could be made in advance, kept in the fridge and cooked the next day?
I think that would be fine. Enjoy!
Great recipe! I leave off the bacon.(personal preference) This is one of those dishes that is better the day after.
Tried this tonight, used ground venison and subbed in nacho cheese sauce instead of canned soup. It was delicious! Warm comfort food at it's best! Thank you for sharing.
We just made this recipe tonight. It was outstanding! Delicious! Will definitely be making it again! We cooked it a little longer to make it more crispy. We had to subsitute the cheddar cheese soup with a Ragu cheddar cheese sauce and it came out fine (all we had!). Thank you for sharing a great recipe!
I turned this one into my breakfast casserole! Just traded out the hamburger meat for breakfast sausage and added a pack of ranch! SOOO good! Thank you!!
I let my daughter go through my Pinterest recipes and pick out something for me to cook for her sleepover (13 yr old's). The girls loved this! & so did my son and hubby!
Made it tonite – super-good!! I changed a couple of things… I cooked up a 8 oz pack of bacon and chopped that up instead of the bacon bits, rendered the bacon fat and used that to grease the 9×13, browned the beef with onions & garlic, added a 10 oz package of frozen supersweet corn and used half the shredded cheese. I give it a little zip with Whataburger Spicy Ketchup on top. I'n adding it to my "Dad's in charge of dinner" rotation.
Yummy. Made it by recipe the first time and was great. Second time I added some onion and because I like pickly, added some chopped up pickle on just my plate. Was awesome. Will make again and again.
Great additions!! So glad you enjoyed it!
Chopped pickle – brilliant!
I personally loved this dish but my kids did not. They didn't care for the texture of the tater tots after they cooked. If I were to make it again, I would leave out the tots, spread the meat mixture in the pan, and then top it with the tots. This approach would crisp up the tots more I think. 🙂
Try putting the tots on top and cook till the tots the desired consistency
Have no cheese soup on hand. Since Shredded cheese is an ingredient would it work to replace cheese soup with cream of mushroom? I'm assuming other than changing flavor slightly it would work.
I would think that would be just fine. Enjoy!????
I usually don't add cheese soup or cream of mushroom, But I use a can of nacho cheese instead
Are the bacon bits really hard/crunchy after you cook them? Or do they soften up?
They arent hard to start. Ive yet to hit a hard piece and Ive made this twice
Are the bacon bits real crunchy when you cook them? Can't have something too crunchy, needs to be a bit softer. Thanks!
No – I used the precooked bacon pieces/bits and they aren't hard. You can also use an equal amount of cooked chopped bacon.
No exaggeration – this is really good! I used Ore-Ida Mini Tater Tots and an entire package of precooked bacon (2.6 oz). For a little extra flavor I added a sauteed onion and some Lawry's Seasoned Salt. By mistake we purchased the Campbell's Healthy Request Cheddar Cheese soup (instead of the regular type) and it worked out fine. Loved it!!!
Could you replace the cheddar cheese soup with say Velveeta? My daughter has celiac disease and we cannot use the soup.
I use gluten free cream of mushroom and warm it up with some shredded cheese added in
What can I use for the cheese soup, since I don't have any on hand and I would love to make this for my husband tonight.
I made it with cream of mushroom since i didnt have it either and it worked fine!
I bet it would be great in a crock pot. It would be great anywhere. Great recipe. Mmmmmmm making it again a week later. 🙂
DO you think you could use the tater rounds? I like that they are flat so they get even crispier!
I don't see why not. Enjoy!
Are the tater tots frozen when you mix all the ingredients ?
I did use the tater tots frozen
I made this tonight but doubled it for my house and the neighbors. I added onions, garlic powder, and hamburger seasoning. Everyone in both houses loved it. Thank you for sharing this great recipe.
We had this last week and it was a hit. I will definitely make this over my old tatter tot casserole recipe.
Do you thinhk you could make it in a crock pot?
Could you use Hashbrowns Shredded instead of tater tots. Hmmm