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This Tater Tot Sausage and Egg Crockpot Casserole is a hearty breakfast filled with tater tots, breakfast sausage, eggs, cheddar, and Parmesan cheese. Everything gets layered in the slow cooker and cooks until the eggs are set and the cheese is melted.
It’s an easy breakfast for holidays, weekends, or mornings when you need to feed a crowd. For another hearty egg breakfast, try my Bacon and Egg Crockpot Casserole. If your family loves cheesy potatoes, my Cracker Barrel Hash Brown Casserole is another easy slow cooker favorite.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Hearty breakfast: Sausage, eggs, potatoes, and cheese are all in one dish.
- Feeds a crowd: This is a great option for family breakfast or brunch.
- Easy slow cooker recipe: Once everything is layered, the Crockpot takes over.
- Two cooking options: Make it slowly on LOW or faster on HIGH.
For another filling breakfast casserole made outside the Crockpot, try my Breakfast Casserole.
How to Make Tater Tot Sausage and Egg Casserole
- Add the breakfast sausage to a skillet over medium heat and cook until browned.
- Drain off the excess grease.
- Spray the inside of the slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk the flour into the eggs and milk until well combined, then season with salt and pepper.
- Add half of the frozen tater tots to the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Layer half of the cooked sausage, Parmesan cheese, and cheddar cheese over the tater tots.
- Repeat the layers with the remaining tater tots, sausage, and cheese.
- Pour the egg mixture evenly over the casserole.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 6–8 hours or HIGH for about 3 hours, until the eggs are completely set.
- Serve warm.
My Pro Tip
Tips for the Best Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole
- Drain the sausage well before adding it to the slow cooker.
- Keep the tater tots frozen until you assemble the casserole.
- Spread each layer evenly so every serving gets sausage, potatoes, egg, and cheese.
- Start checking around the 6-hour mark on LOW since some slow cookers run hotter than others.
If you want potatoes as a separate side instead, make my Crockpot Breakfast Potatoes.
What to Serve With Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole
Because this recipe already has eggs, sausage, potatoes, and cheese, you really don’t need much with it. Fresh fruit works well, or add something sweet like my Blueberry Cream Cheese French Toast Casserole if you’re serving a larger brunch.
Tater Tot, Sausage and Egg Casserole Crockpot
Ingredients
- 32 oz tater tots
- 1 lb breakfast sausage
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 12 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 4 tbs all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
Instructions
- To a skillet over medium heat add the sausage and brown. Remove the excess grease.
- Grease a slow cooker with non-stick spray.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk the water and flour together until smooth now add the eggs, milk, salt, and pepper. Whisk well.
- Add half of the bag of tater tots to the bottom of the slow cooker. Layer half of the sausage over the tater tots, half of the diced onion, half of the parmesan cheese, and half of the cheddar cheese repeat for the second layer. Pour the egg mixture over the top.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 6-8 hours or HIGH for 3 hours or until the egg has set. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Made this again and my family loves it! It is their favorite. Once again I followed the video and it came out perfectly. I’m not sure why others are having a hard time.
Thank you for all of these wonderful recipes Julia!
This crockpot breakfast was delicious! I followed the recipe and directions from the video and it was so easy! My family loved it! My Crockpot runs hot so it was ready at the six hour mark.
I’ve tried many of these meals and my family loves them! They always give it a score of 10 😀. Thank you for sharing all of these recipes and taking the time to take videos. Have a blessed day!
I’m glad I tried this ahead of time was planning for Easter brunch but not now.My son in law wouldn’t even eat it and he will try just about anything.I am a very experienced cook have cook in many fine dining restaurants so don’t believe the end result was operational error.Lets just say the end result was not pleasing and leave it at that. I do plan to try a couple other recipe that look promising sorry to leave a negative comment but we really did not care for this recipe
What exactly didn’t work? There is nothing in this recipe that would make it inedible, tots, cheese, eggs, and sausage. With seasonings. Did you use expired ingredients? I could see it being plain, boring, bland, but not inedible.
Can this be made in the oven instead of the slow cooker? What temperature and time should I use? Thanks!
Yeah, I want to know the same thing as the people above-Jennifer, Sharon, Amy. Shame to google someone else’s version to find the missing information. I used one yellow onion and omitted the water direction. Did anyone try something different?
Yes please let us know the answer to the questions about the onion and the water. I would love to make this for Easter brunch. Thank you.
Hello!
In the Tater Tot Sausage & Egg Casserole Crockpot recipe, the Directions say, “add the onion and add the water, but there’s no onion or water in the ingredient list. Do you know how much onion and water to add?
Thank you,
Sharon
I have the same 2 questions as above as well as the cooking time should be adjusted from 8 minutes.
How much water do we mix with the flour?
In the YouTube video she used one large onion and she didn’t use any water. She mixed the flour in the eggs with an electric mixer until well combined.
Onion is not on the ingredient list but it is in the directions.