Hashbrown casserole

There is just something about comfort food.


Ooey, Gooey, Cheesy, Warm, Filling Food that feeds your belly and your soul. Eaten with family and friends, this is the food that is served at baby showers, brunches, and afternoons with friends and family. The food of your childhood and your best memories.

Everyone has a recipe for Hashbrown Bakes and Casseroles, those recipes passed among friends and family. This is my recipe with some variations thrown in for you to try. It’s cheesy and gooey, hot and slightly crisp, while creamy, with just a dash of tang from the sour cream and a sweet bite from the onions.

What? You want the recipe? Okay

Basically, you take frozen hash browns, add some condensed soup, sour cream and cheese, add something crunchy on top ( if desired), and bake it into this yummy, cheesy pile. And really, who doesn't love a yummy, cheesy pile?

Hashbrown Casserole Ingredients

• Non-stick cooking spray

• 1 bag hash brown potatoes

• 1 can condensed cream soup, undiluted

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted

• 1 medium onion, minced

• 1 small tub sour cream

• 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 teaspoon pepper

• OPTIONAL… top with crushed potato chips ,crushed corn flakes or Ritz crackers & a little melted butter ( personally I never use this option)

Hashbrown Casserole Instructions


• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray a 9x13 casserole dish with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.

• Combine the cream soup, butter or margarine, onion, sour cream, cheese, salt and pepper in a large mixing bowl. Mix until well combined.

• Fold the hash browns into the cream mixture. Transfer to the greased casserole dish.

• Bake for about 40 minutes or until bubbly.

• If your crumbs are getting too toasty, cover the dish with tin foil, at that point, and put back in the oven.

• Serve or you can mix this the day before, refrigerate it & then cook it. ( if waiting don’t add topping)

• You can prepare ahead and freeze this.

Hashbrown Casserole Variations

• Omit onion salt & pepper…. Add onion soup mix

• Try different cream soups… I use whatever is on hand

• Try different cheese or combine them Parmesan, Mozzarella, Fontina, Provolone, Asiago and/or Romano

• Top with a can of French fried onions.

• vegetables such as peas or peas & carrots, green beans, corn, red or green pepper , mushrooms …etc

• Add parmesan cheese

• Add bacon

• To make it a full meal, add meat… any kind (chopped turkey, sausage, chicken, ham, or ground meat).

• For the last 10 minutes of baking, add a fresh topping of cheese.