

This Midwestern casserole was invented during the Great Depression to stretch food for a more filling meal. In a 9'x13' baking dish add your ground beef, top with your soup mixture. To the people who grew up eating it, hotdish is not a food but a memory, Cook's Country's Editor in Chief Toni Tipton-Martin explains. This video is currently available with Montana PBS. In bowl mix together your soups, green beans, corn, milk and seasonings and stir until combined. Tater Tot Hotdish, Wisconsin Butter Burgers Buckeye Candies review of corn strippers. Stir well (keep skillet on a medium-low heat) Then pour in enchilada sauce. Next, sprinkle two tablespoons fajita seasoning onto beef. Once browned, drain excess grease then return meat to skillet. Ingredients 1 1/2 lb ground beef 1 onion, diced 2 cup frozen cut green beans, thawed and drained 1 cup frozen corn, thawed and drained 2 tbsp vegetable oil. Cover the bottom of the 9x13 baking pan with the tater tots, pour the hamburger/soup mixture over them, and cover liberally with the grated cheese. In pan brown your ground beef until no longer pink, drain off fat and set aside. In a large skillet, over medium heat, brown ground beef along with onion and garlic. Into the pot goes the soups, the milk, and the green beans. In a largish pot, brown the ground beef and onions. This task is immensely easier in rural Wisconsin than in, say, Greenwich Village they practically sell all these items together in a blister-packed kit back home while locating the french cut green beans at D'Agostino's was a bit touch and go.Ĭhop the onions. You can find all of these items at your local grocery store and/or in your kitchen cupboard.

Cook over medium-high heat until nearly all liquid has evaporated, 25 to 28 minutes, stirring occasionally and breaking up meat with spoon. Combine beef, mushrooms, onion, garlic, thyme, 1 1/2 tsps salt, and 1 1/2 tsps pepper in Dutch oven. Valuable minutes were wasted as tears welled up in my eyes from the onion essence.Ģ cans of Campbell's cream soup (mushroom, celery, chicken, pick two) Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 450 degrees. Hosted by Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison, Cooks Country features the best regional home cooking in the country and relies on the same practical. The Cadillac of hotdishes is tater tot hotdish, and here's how you go about making it. It's what the rest of the US would call a casserole. For those of you who haven't spent a lot of time in the flyover states, hotdish is a dish typically baked in one pan and contains a meat, a starch, and a vegetable with optional cheese or onion crisps. Hotdish is a delicacy enjoyed by the inhabitants of the upper midwestern United States.
