Easiest Way to Make Delicious Cheesy Tater Casserole

Cheesy Tater Casserole.

You can cook Cheesy Tater Casserole using 12 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cheesy Tater Casserole

1. It's 1 of onion, chopped.
2. Prepare 6 slice of bacon.
3. You need 2 tbsp of chives.
4. Prepare 2 tsp of oregano.
5. It's 2 tsp of basil.
6. Prepare 1 can of campbells cheddar cheese soup.
7. Prepare 1/4 packages of velveeta sharp cheddar cheese.
8. Prepare 2 cup of whole milk.
9. Prepare 1 lb of extra lean ground beef.
10. It's 2 tsp of your favorite season salt (i used a prime rib season salt).
11. Prepare 1/2 lb of tillamook mild cheddar cheese.
12. Prepare 1 packages of tater tots.

Cheesy Tater Casserole step by step

1. Cut bacon into bit size pieces and brown.
2. Remove bacon from pan but leave grease.
3. Toss in chopped onion and brown for 4-5 minutes, then add ground beef..
4. Add seasoning salt, basil & oregano to ground beef mixture.
5. Brown meat and seasonings until ground beef has nice crisp edges (keep setting on burner at 5 or 6).
6. Mix 2 cups milk and cheddar cheese soup in a sauce pan and set burner at 5..
7. Chop Velveeta sharp cheddar cheese into small cubes and add to milk and soup mixture. When a creamy sauce has developed and all cheese is mixed in pull from burner..
8. Mix the beef mixture and cheese sauce together (if beef has too much grease in it drain it first).
9. Spread mixture in bottom of 5x9 nonstick pan.
10. Shread Tillamook mild cheddar cheese if it wasn't bought already shread..
11. Sprinkle a little shreaded cheese to top of mixture in pan.
12. Add an even layer of tater tots to top of mixture in 5x9 and salt and pepper them to your liking.
13. Sprinkle the rest of the Tillamook cheese on top then evenly spread bacon and chives.
14. Bake at 400 until top looks golden brown.