Ryan Week Day 5 - Tater Tot Casserole

You will need:

• One GREASED 8x8 baking dish
• 1 pound of 96% lean ground beef (have to work hard to keep the figure)
• 1/4 cup chopped onions
• 1 can of green beans
• 1 can of cream of mushroom soup - if you do not enjoy cream of mushroom soup any creamed based soup will do.
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 small bag of tater tots
• 1 bag of finely shredded cheddar cheese

Pre-heat oven to 350

Brown green beef with onions, because I know how much Ryan loves onions I added almost 1/2 cup of onions for a bit kick!

While that is cooking, add your cream of mushroom soup along with you milk and mix well.

If any grease, drain.

Put the cooked beef with onions in the bottom of your greased baking dish. Add a small handful of cheddar cheese.

Then on top of that, add your drained can of green beans (please note that you can add whatever vegetable you wish, some people do enjoy this with corn or a mixed vegetable can also work nicely.) Once again a small handful of cheese.

On top of the green beans add your mixture of cream of mushroom soup and milk. Layer that with 2 handfuls of cheese.

If you wanted to get really crazy you could mix everything up, however I enjoy the layered look for serving.

Add Tater Tots in single layer on top of the whole baking dish followed by another small handful of cheese on top of that. (I did not use the whole bag of cheese)

Bake for about 30 minutes with the top covered with tin foil. Then take off the tin foil and cook for an extra 5-8 minutes till the tater tots look crisp!

Enjoy!