Welcome to the Taste Creations Blog Hop! Today my friends and I are getting together to share some of our favorite recipes! Today I am sharing a super-easy recipe for a cheesy salsa hot dish, or casserole. This recipe is one you can put together in only about a hour, and it is perfect for get-togethers, whether you’re hosting a game night or a going to a pot-luck dinner. Anyone could easily make this dish, and I guarantee that it will be a hit! Be sure to check out my friends’ recipes at the bottom of this post, too!
Delicious Mexican-Style Casserole
If you haven’t heard of a hot dish before, it’s a casserole-type meal that’s typically made with a meat, vegetables, a starch, and some kind of sauce, typically canned soup. A crowd pleaser, a hot dish doesn’t require much effort to put together.
My husband first made a hot dish for me a few weeks ago—his includes ground beef, tater tots, mixed frozen veggies, cream of mushroom soup, and plenty of cheese; he likes to use a bit of rosemary to flavor the beef.
I decided to make my own version of this yummy dish by using ground beef, tater tots, cheese, frozen veggies, salsa, and queso. It is a great dish to make on a Sunday night, too—you will definitely have lots of leftovers!
Ingredients
Makes 8 servings
1 lb. ground beef
1 packakge tater tots
1 10 oz. bag mixed vegetables (mine had carrots, peas, corn, and green beens)
2 cups shredded cheese (I used one cup of shredded sharp cheddar and one cup shredded pepper jack)
1 jar Desert Pepper Cantina Medium Salsa
1 Jar Desert Pepper Chile Con Queso Medium
Cilantro (optional), for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Brown the ground beef in a large pot, such as a Dutch oven, on the stove.
- Warm the mixed vegetables in the microwave per the package’s instructions.
- Mix the veggies into the beef.
- Add a jar each of Desert Pepper Medium Red Cantina Salsa and Desert Pepper Medium Chile Con Queso into the beef and vegetable mixture, mixing it in.
- Spread the beef mixture along the bottom of a 9×13-inch glass casserole dish.
- Top the beef and veggies with one cup of shredded cheese.
- Open your bag of tater tots and top the cheese with neat rows of tater tots, so the entire surface is covered.
- Top the tater tots with one more cup of shredded cheese.
- Carefully place your casserole dish in the oven.
- Bake your hot dish for about 45 minutes, until the cheese is melted and lightly browned.
- Cut your hot dish into squares, topping each serving with some fresh cilantro, if desired.
For more about Desert Pepper’s salsas and quesos, be sure to check out links:
Website: https://www.desertpepper.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DesertPepperTradingCo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/desertpeppertradingco/
You can purchase Desert Pepper Salsa products at: Sprouts, Publix, Hannaford, Harris Teeter, ShopRite, Walmart, Giant Eagle, Market Basket, Jewel and Meijer.
Check Out My Friends’ Recipes!
