![]() When display says HOT add in the sausage and break it up. In a mixing bowl whisk together the eggs, half and half, cottage cheese, picante sauce, parsley, paprika, ground mustard, oregano, pepper and salt. Turn off saute setting.Īdd half of the tater tots and half of the cheeses into the Instant Pot with the sausage. Shredded cheddar cheese–or colby jack cheese.Ground breakfast sausage–I used Jimmy Dean brand.Give this recipe a try this weekend and enjoy! Ingredients/Substitution Ideas You can serve it for breakfast or for dinner. You can switch up the seasonings and types of cheeses. You can customize the ingredients by adding in other ingredients like bell peppers, green chiles, sauteed mushrooms or diced tomatoes. You can cook it in the Instant Pot, slow cooker or oven. You can prep it the night before or the day of. What makes this recipe even better is that it is flexible. The cottage cheese gives the eggs a creamy texture, similar to starbucks egg bites. It’s a classic breakfast casserole that combines crispy tater tots, scrambled eggs, 2 different types of cheeses, browned sausage and a secret ingredient…cottage cheese. ![]() This tater tot breakfast casserole is a delicious and hearty breakfast dish that is perfect for prepping the night before you want to enjoy it and it also feeds a crowd. One way that you can do this is work for your weekend (just like the song!) by preparing a weekend breakfast casserole ahead of time. It doesn’t hurt this casserole to have green beans or other vegetables in it it does need something else in there besides beef.One thing I love to do these days (as my kids have grown up and I have time to myself during the day time) is work ahead so that my weekends are relaxing and not jam packed with errands, chores and cooking. I think my mom added vegetables to everything so we were always fully vege-nated as kids. If you like other vegetables, feel free to experiment with adding those instead, but in my opinion, green beans work best. Again, it’s what my mom did so I did it too. I also added green beans to my casserole because I love tater tot Casserole with green beans. Remember that I love to give you recipes to work with, you make them your own. My mom never covered her tater to casserole in cheese? Did yours? If yours did and you want cheese on it, by all means, add cheese in the last ten minutes of cooking. Some people believe it must be piled with shredded cheese. I’ve been scolded for not covering this Crock Pot Tater Tot Casserole in cheese. I’ve already been asked to make it again and twice as big, believe me, I’ll keep the easy part too. I made it an easy tater tot casserole, in the crockpot, so we could eat it after a long day of being out and about. What was this thing that mom never made and when will she make it for us? Well they can quit asking after a year and a whole remodel later I finally made one for my poor, deprived kids. But one was a tater tot casserole, and my kid’s minds were blown. I should say that MANY friends brought us dinner. Someone brought us dinner when my son was in his car accident. Of course, I hadn’t made or eaten a tater tot casserole in 30 plus years until a few years ago. I also like being able to make a Crock Pot Tater Tot Casserole without paying attention to it. Tater Tot Casserole and it’s many variations were in regular rotation at our house, and we all loved it. What? Didn’t everyone’s mom brown beef, add soup, cover in tater tots and bake for an hour? Apparently not, poor things. It came to light a few years ago that not everyone knew the deliciousness of a tater tot casserole. I must be reliving my childhood with this recipe for Tater Tot Casserole with Green Beans and dang it does taste good. Jump to Recipe Crock Pot Tater Tot Casserole
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