Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole Recipe

Name: Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 65 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1 lb ground sausage; 8 large eggs; 3/4 cup half and half; 1 teaspoon garlic powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon black pepper; 1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded; 1 lb frozen tater tots

by MoneywiseMoms

8 servings

1 hr 5 min

This delicious breakfast tater tot casserole recipe is great for starting the day off right! It's an easy sausage egg casserole that the whole family will devour.

Making tater tots into breakfast casseroles is such an easy option.

They can stay in the freezer for as long as necessary, they're cheap and easy to find, and kids love them. It feels like a special occasion whenever we bring out this recipe.

This recipe will make about eight servings. You can easily double this recipe or cut it in half if you need more or less.

Full pan of the finished casserole ready to eat.

Is this like a breakfast casserole with hash browns?

Absolutely! This recipe is just like our breakfast casserole with hash browns the major difference is that the tater tots give this recipe a nice crunchy top.

Finished breakfast tater tot casserole recipe ready to eat.

We love making breakfast casseroles for holiday mornings since they are a fulfilling brunch recipe. This one is perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas morning, for example.

Finished casserole ready to eat.

Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole Recipe

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Recipe details

Yield 8 servings
Time spent: Prep time: 10 Minutes Cook time: 55 Minutes Total time: 1 hr 5 min

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Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350.
In a medium skillet, cook ground sausage over medium heat while breaking into small pieces until no longer pink. Remove skillet from heat, drain grease from sausage and set aside.
Grease a 9' x 13' baking dish with cooking oil spray. (Glass works best.)
Spread the crumbled sausage in an even layer over the bottom of the baking dish. In a medium bowl whisk eggs, half and half, garlic powder, salt and pepper until well combined.
Pour the egg mixture over the sausage in the baking dish.
Top with shredded cheese.
Place frozen tater tots evenly over the top of sausage, egg and cheese mixture. Do not submerge tater tots.
Bake for approx. 50 minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Remove the casserole from the oven and let it sit for 5 minutes before serving.

Comments

Mary on Sep 20, 2022

The recipe looks great, but please, what are tater tots? Are they a British thing perhaps? I have never seen them in Canada, though we do have hash browns.
Also, and this is probably controlled by Food Talk, the ads for dementia warning signs showing swollen feet are stomach turning, and extremely off putting when we are concentrating on the recipe.

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- Carmen Cage on Sep 23, 2022
  
  Tater tots are hash browns made into little rounds or ovals. Tots.
  
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- Gayle on Sep 23, 2022
  
  Tater tots are in every grocery store here in Canada for decades. At least out west.
  
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- Rozmin on Oct 29, 2022
  
  tater tots are definitely American not British. I used to buy them when living in US years ago. I have started seeing them here in the UK lately
  
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- Kara Beitz on Oct 30, 2022
  
  Every grocery store in Ontario too
  
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- B. S on Oct 30, 2022
  
  DEFINITELY AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- Debbie Wilson Waterworth on Oct 30, 2022
  
  Tater tots are compressed Hashbrowns often referred to as nuggets or crowns. Usually produced by McCain or Cavendish farms. Hopevthis helps you.
  
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- Joyce on Oct 30, 2022
  
  Hashbrowns would work also. Tater tots are made into round hashbrowns. I think hashbrowns would work.
  
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- Bill on Oct 30, 2022
  
  Mary, By now you probably know about Tater Tots, but if not, they are homefries, rolled up & puffed up into small tootsie roll sized homefries, individually ready to eat. This is a new design on an old, breakfast favorite - eggs & potatoes !
  
  Bill
  
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- Scottfenney Fenney on Apr 28, 2024
  
  Tater Tots were the genius invention of using all the little potato scraps left from slicing french fries and mixing in a binder and then pressing them into little bite sized cylinders. Usually sold frozen.
  
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- Nancy Bebber on Apr 29, 2024
  
  Here is a photo of tater tots. You all do not know what you are missing in Canada. Have a Blessed day, Nancy Bebber
  
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- Gail on Nov 12, 2024
  
  You been living in a cave for the past 50 yrs? That's how long I have been buying them. BTW I live in Canada
  
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- C2128969608 on Dec 03, 2024
  
  you will like the tater tots
  
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- Debra on Dec 03, 2024
  
  We have them here in Canada. They are little potato “tots” / pieces, rounded chunks of soft on the inside but crispy on the outside (when cooked) bites of potato. At Walmart they sell McCain Tasty Taters that are just like tater tots elsewhere. Hope this helps.
  
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- Lis104384971 on Dec 10, 2024
  
  (minced)cylinder shaped frozen potatoes--found in most stores.You can use other types of frozen potatoes or make your own probably type potato.
  
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Kay on Oct 29, 2022

Can this be mixed the night before and then baked the next morning?

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- Kathleen on Oct 29, 2022
  
  My guess would be to save the Tots until morning as they would thaw out in the fridge. The baking may take a little longer because of being refrigerated all night.
  
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- Lis104384971 on Dec 10, 2024
  
  You probably could BUT hold the Frozen tater tots till you bake.
  
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