Jalapeño Popper Tater Tot Chicken Casserole
This Jalapeño Popper Tater Tot Chicken Casserole is one of my new favorite meals. Creamy, cheesy and filling. Not spicy but so, so good!
A WHOLE MEAL IN ONE DISH!
Y’all, I just need a moment here to give thanks to God for bacon. And cheese. And tater tots. I’m not even kidding. This recipe for Jalapeño Popper Tater Tot Chicken Casserole I am sharing today is so over-the-top awesome. I almost having a hard time describing the amazingness of this casserole. It’s so easy to throw together and a meal everyone will love!
IS THIS JALAPEÑO POPPER CASSEROLE SPICY HOT?
It’s not. I am super sensitive to space and I didn’t think this was crazy spicy. However, you can certainly leave out the jalapeños and it’ll still taste amazing. This casserole is a whole meal in one. You have a layer of tater tots on the bottom followed by a layer of rotisserie chicken that is topped with the most yummy cream cheese mixture and all of that is finished off with melted cheese, bacon and green onions (ya know, to be healthy.) 😉 Make it. Today. Then thank me later!
INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)
- tater tots
- cream cheese
- sour cream
- garlic salt
- black pepper
- Mexican shredded cheese
- green onions
- jalapeño peppers
- bacon
- rotisserie chicken
HOW TO MAKE JALAPEÑO POPPER TATER TOT CHICKEN CASSEROLE:
Preheat oven to 425f degrees. Spread tater tots into the bottom a 9″ x 13″ baking dish. Bake tater tots for about 15 minutes.
While tater tots are cooking, in a medium bowl, stir together cream cheese and sour cream. Season with garlic salt and pepper. Stir in half the shredded cheese, half the green onions, diced jalapeño peppers and half the cooked bacon until combined well.
Once the tater tots are cooked, remove from the oven (but don’t turn the oven off.) Spread diced chicken on top of the cooked tater tots.
Then layer the cream cheese mixture on top of the chicken. Just do your best to spread it out.
Sprinkle the top with the rest of the shredded cheese, green onions and bacon.
Cook, uncovered, for about 20 minutes. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving.
Then dig in! Serve with a salad.
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Jalapeño Popper Tater Tot Chicken Casserole
Ingredients
- 2 pound bag frozen tater tots
- 2 (8 ounce) blocks cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 ½ teaspoons garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 cups Mexican shredded cheese, divided use
- 6 green onions, sliced
- 6 jalapeno peppers, seeds removed and diced
- 1 pound bacon, cooked and crumbled, divided use
- 1 family size rotisserie chicken, meat removed and diced into chunks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F degrees.
- Spread tater tots into the bottom a 9"x13" baking dish. Bake tater tots for 15 minutes.
- While tater tots are cooking, in a medium bowl, stir together cream cheese and sour cream. Season with garlic salt and pepper. Stir in half the shredded cheese, half the green onions, diced jalapeño peppers and half the cooked bacon until combined well.
- Once the tater tots are cooked, remove from the oven (but don’t turn the oven off.) Spread diced chicken on top of the cooked tater tots.
- Then layer the cream cheese mixture on top of the chicken.
- Sprinkle the top with the rest of the shredded cheese, green onions and bacon.
- Cook, uncovered, for about 20 minutes. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving.
Video
Notes
- Serve with a salad.
- This can be made without chicken. You can also make it with cooked ground beef instead of chicken.
- Jalapeños are optional if you don’t enjoy them.
Nutrition
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“The Country Cook” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.
Very delicious
Has anyone tried making this in a crock pot?
We made this without the chicken and roasted the peppers before chopping and adding them in. Added more flavor but without the burn. Served at a ham potluck dinner as a side and was an absolute rave!
Love how you tweaked this recipe to really make it your own. Thanks so much for coming back to review Patricia!
Hi Brandie!
Have you tried freezing this? My husband and I like to cook things in batches and then freeze them for quick weeknight dinners.
It’s very good. I used the coin tots too. I recommend giving it a go! Suggest add more sour cream or some milk, depending on your tastes.
I only have shredded hash browns. Do you think that would work instead of the tater tots.
Hi Ann, I’ve never tried it with the hash browns. I’m sorry!
Hugs from my family who loved this recipe! 🙂
Is the carb count correct in the nutritional info? It seems too low… Is it omitting the tater tots?
I always advise everyone to use their own trusted nutritional calculators when figuring values: https://www.thecountrycook.net/nutritional-information-disclaimer/
This was a huge hit!! Everyone loved it and can’t wait for me to make it again
Looks so good,can I freeze leftovers?
I used 1/3 less fat sour cream and turkey bacon. It’s delicious.
I didn’t have sour cream so I used a can of cheddar cheese soup instead. I also used diced white onion instead of the green onion and added it to the tots when precooking them. This was crazy good!
This sounds good. Did you use the cheddar soup straight out of the can?
How is this warmed up? I would like to try it, but I’m sure I’ll have leftovers for myself and would like to eat some later if it’s still tasteful.
We usually have leftovers and this heats up well.
I just made this a second time because it was so good! The first time, I followed the recipe exact, the second time I tweaked a few things. I used the coin tater tots the second time because I think they have more flavor and heat up for leftovers better (more crunchy too). I added more jalapenos as well. Delicious recipe and easy to change around a little to fit my preferences!
Hi Murron! Love how you made it your own! I sure do appreciate you coming back to let me know how much you enjoyed it!!
Do the tater tots come out crunchy or more soft/soggy? I’m thinking about putting them on top of the casserole, baking it, then broiling it for a few minutes to give the tater tots a nice crispy, crunch!
Tried this without chicken because we were having burgers. Left out the tater tots because we are low carbing right now. Instead of green onions, I caramelized sliced sweet onions separately. Then we smothered a burger with velveeta, smeared on this jalapeño popper casserole, piled up the caramelized onions, topped with more crumbled bacon and it was burger perfection! My husband served up the casserole on it’s own as a side dish, too.
This looks absolutely divine! Unfortunately my boyfriend can’t stand cream cheese, which I find incredibly depressing, but so it goes. I’m wondering if I could somehow sub out the cream cheese for more sour cream? It certainly wouldn’t be quite as delicious as with the cream cheese, but I’m hoping I can make it work.
Very good! Loved the convenience of the store bought chicken. Fed our family of six with leftovers. We left some of the jalapeno seeds in so it would be hotter and liked it.
We made this over the weekend and it was absolutely de-fricken-licious !!! Since it’s just my wife and I we cut the recipe in half and used a square 9″x9″ brownie pan and it turned out great.
The recipe calls for one brick of cream cheese, but the photo shows two. Just wanted to clarify. Looks delicious and we plan on having it this week!
Hey Nicole! Good catch – it is TWO. I updated it! 🙂 Hope you love this one!
Thanks! Going to try this one! I spend more time trying to figure out what to cook for dinner then I actually do cooking dinner. Thanks again!
“Serve with a salad”…hilarious! Looks delicious!
LOL – well, ya know – the internets. Everybody judges so I gotta throw in something that resembles healthy. 😉
This looks wonderful, and couldn’t possibly be anything else with BACON, Tater Tots and cheese. Oh, and heat, (being from New Mexico, I may have to substitute green chile or be banished from the land) which should be its own food group!
Thanks, and Happy New Year!
Pamela – oh you definitely need to add that chile! 😉 I have major heartburn so anything too spicy doesn’t agree with me anymore. LOL. But I think if you can take the heat – add it in!!
I showed this to my fiance and he was practically drooling. These are all of his favorite things in a casserole! Chicken, bacon, jalapenos, and tater tots…yum! He wants me to make this soon!
Ha! Well I hope he LOVES it!!
This looks so yum! Happy New Year! Thanks for the great blog. Looking forward to all the amazing recipes you will be sharing this year!
Can you used cooked chicken and not rotisserie for this recipe?
You can use any type of cooked chicken for this. 🙂
do you have to put the tater tots on the bottom or will they cook ok on top?