Make this Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole ahead of time and then reheat it for breakfast or brunch! This is great for breakfast, brunch or even dinner!
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You know, sometimes I make recipes and my husband likes them…..sometimes I make recipes and my husband looses his mind over them and I barely get any! This Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole is one of those recipes, y’all!
I made this the other weekend because I was wanted to come up with a breakfast/brunch version of the dinner tater tot casserole that I use to make and this beauty became a favorite with it’s first bite.
This recipe is also part of this year’s #BrunchWeek line up! Cabot was one of our fantastic sponsors this year and they sent us all a nice little box of some of their tasty cheese, so that’s what I used in this recipe!
I highly, highly, recommend the Cabot Seriously Sharp Cheddar Cheese for this recipe. It’s so good in this Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole!
Oh and when I tell you it was love at first bite, I really mean it was totally like that for Thomas. He loved this.
I hadn’t even finished taking photos of this casserole and he was already scarfing down the first piece that I had cut out.
THEN he had another piece for lunch and another piece for dinner!
THEN, he had Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole for dinner a few nights during the week too. I’d ask him what he wanted for dinner and he’d say, “Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole”.
It was insane! haha I’m glad he liked it so much though!
Don’t get me wrong now, I loved it too! I just didn’t have it for every meal haha.
I absolutely love how this Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole comes out once it’s been cooked. The eggs, cheese and bacon just bake up into the tater tots! It’s not like a layer of eggs and then a layer of tater tots, oooo no! It’s all combined! It’s perfect!
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Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole
Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole
Make this Breakfast Tater Tot Casserole ahead of time and then reheat it for breakfast or brunch! This is great for breakfast, brunch or even dinner!
- Prep Time: 5m
- Cook Time: 55m
- Total Time: 1h
- Yield: 8-12 servings
Ingredients
- 1 pound bacon, cooked and diced
- 12 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon onion powder (or 1/2 an onion diced and cooked)
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 8 -10 dashes of hot sauce
- 1/4 cup whole milk or cream
- 8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, grated
- 2 pounds frozen tater tots
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a 9x13 baking dish, whisk together the eggs, pepper, onion powder (if using), garlic powder and hot sauce. Stir in whole milk or cream.
- Whisk well so that there are no lumps of seasoning.
- Whisk in half of bacon and half of cheese. Whisk in cooked onions now if using onions instead of onion powder.
- Pour in tater tots. Arrange tater tots in a semi single layer.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Remove from oven and top with the rest of cheese and bacon.
- Bake for 5-10 minutes or until cheese is melted and tater tots are hot!
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My favorite brunch recipe is eggs benedict. I’ve printed out your loaded breakfast casserole and I am making it this weekend, yum!
hope that you love it!
I love the addition of tater tots to an egg casserole!
I purchase tater tots all the time at the store. I really need to try this recipe. It looks incredible!
That looks so yummy! And I’m a total cheese fiend, I want to try all those selections from Cabot!
This would be perfect for Mother’s Day brunch. I love breakfast casseroles!
I don’t have a favorite brunch recipe but could see your recipe becoming one.
The go to brunch at our house is corned beef hash, bacon, eggs sunny side up, and toast plus either pancakes, waffles or french toast for the kiddos! Definitely will be adding this to our list of dinners though! Tater tot hotdishes are a favorite in our household so I’m super excited to add this to the mix!
This looks absolutely fantastic and I can’t wait to try it!
I love to brunch with my daughters…..whatever it is….is always good with them!
I’m usually not much of a casserole girl, but I’d totally be all over this one. You can’t go wrong with tater tots and a tone of cheese. Ever. My boys would LOVE this!
I can see why your husband loved this so much! The ultimate brunch casserole.
My kind of breakfast! Look delish!
Adding tater tots to a breakfast casserole is just genius! My family would love this. 🙂
Gimme all the tater tots! This looks insane. I’d love this for weekend brunch!
I think my kids would love this!!
Brunch and breakfast for dinner is a family favorite. Love hash browns, eggs, bacon and baked beans. Brunch is always best with family.
WOW…. perfect breakfast !
two favorites.. tater tots & eggs, any way you fix them… throw in bacon & holy cow kids come out of the woodwork !!
great give away… I’d love any one of them for sure. Thanks
Perfect recipe. Not only is it easy peasy and delicious but it can be made in advance. Can’t wait to serve this up to my Big Bear!
Well, hello! That’s a breakfast casserole I can totally dig into.
This looks like something my family would love!
This looks soooo delish! Yum!
What is temp & time recommended to reheat if making ahead of time.
I normally reheat in single servings when I make this and save it in the fridge but if you want to reheat the whole thing, take it out of the fridge while the oven is preheating and then I would reheat it at 350°F for 20-30 minutes or until hot throughout. Although if I were making it ahead of time, I’d probably make it the night before and just not bake it and then bake it the normal time in the morning.
It’s good, but please adjust the prep time. 5 minutes is not even enough time to cook half the bacon, let alone crack eggs, get spices, etc.
I am a slow cook, but I’d say 25 minutes prep, with the majority of that (16 minutes) cooking the bacon.
The cook time is for the casserole only because the ingredients lists calls for cooked bacon, no raw bacon that you cook during the recipe. That way, you can use bacon you already have cook and in the fridge, or real bacon bits or bacon left over from breakfast. If you’re cooking bacon from raw to cooked you’ll need to just add that extra time one for cooking bacon. But cooking bacon isn’t part of the recipe, that’s why I didn’t add time. Plus when I cook bacon for this recipe instead of using bacon bits, it takes me like 10 minutes so, see, even our time would be different on that. I can only say how long it takes me to make a recipe, not everyone that makes it. 🙂 The prep time starts when you start whisking everything together. I don’t add time for everyone getting their ingredients out of the fridge and cabinets, on to the counter and ready to go because what takes me 5 minutes to grab might take someone else 10 minutes and someone else 20.
I assume you put the milk or cream in at the same time as the egg?
Yes! oops. Not sure what happened to that part of the recipe. Just fixed it 🙂