I cook for a large home so I use a larger version of this casserole. It is best to teach from experience so this recipe will yield 6-8 servings.
Ingredients:
2-3 lbs of cooked ground beef (or ground chuck)
2 cans of sweet peas
2 cans of yellow corn
2 cans of cream of mushroom OR 2 cans of cream of chicken, celery, ect
1 large bag of tator tots
1 large bag of shredded cheese (any kind you like: cheddar, pepperjack for spice, mexican, ect)
Kitchen Items needed:
Skillet
13" x 9" casserole dish
Can opener
This recipe is so easy! You can leave out the sweet peas and even the corn it will still be a great dish to serve. You can also cut the recipe is half and make in a 9" by 9" casserole dish instead.
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
Cook the beef by scattering and shredding it in the hot skillet. Break the beef up as much as you can for easy spreading and coverage in the casserole dish. Once the beef has been fully cooked turn off the heat and drain the grease from the beef.
Take the large casserole dish and spread the beef evenly on the bottom of the dish.
Then use your can opener to open the canned corn and peas. It doesn't matter how you layer the peas and corn. Just pour them evenly, feel free to mix them or layer them, it doesn't matter.
Open the soup and spread it over the beef, corn & peas.
Take your bag of tator tots and line them evenly over the top of the casserole.
Then put your casserole into the oven.
Read the tator tots package to see how long to cook your casserole. NOTE: The tator tots are the only thing that has to cook because the other ingredients are simply warming up.
Check your dish often and when the tator tots are almost all the way browned start spreading the cheese evenly on the top of your dish.
Once the cheese is fully melted you are ready to eat!
