![]() You fry up an onion and some ground beef with spices, and then you start layering it in your casserole dish.įirst you put down the ground beef and spices, then the canned soup, some frozen or canned green beans and some canned corn. One of the nice things about this recipe is that it takes hardly any time at all to put together. I guess that’s what known as “Minnesota nice!” Putting It All Together Hotdish is essentially a casserole, usually consisting of canned vegetables such as green beans and/or corn, some kind of canned soup like cream of celery or mushroom, and some kind of protein (in this case ground beef.) The starch could be noodles or, like in this version, tater tots.Īpparently, every year the senators from Minnesota have a hotdish competition where they put aside politics for a moment, get in the kitchen, and have a little friendly cook-off making hotdish. It seems, however, that the tater tot version was not popularized until the 1950s. Origins of Hotdishįrom what I could find out, hotdish may have come out of the Great Depression as it used common, relatively cheap ingredients to feed quite a few people. Topped with crisp, golden tater tots and held together with cream of mushroom soup, it’s the perfect cold weather potluck dish. There are several versions, but this one comes directly from my friend Mandu in Minneapolis. ![]() Hotdish is classic Minnesotan fare, composed of a few thrifty ingredients all baked up together in one dish.
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