Ham or smoked sausage is perfect with cheesy hash brown casserole. The problem is that if you place the ham in the slow cooker with the casserole, the flavor will overpower everything else.
This little trick of using a foil packet for the meat, and placing it on top of the potatoes works great! One pot dinner, that keeps the flavors separate.
This hashbrown casserole can be baked in an oven or done in the crockpot. It can even be frozen and baked another day.
Gather up your ingredients:
Hashbrown Casserole with a Crockpot Trick
Ingredients
- 1 bag frozen shredded hash brown potatoes
- 8 oz sour cream
- 1 can cream of chicken soup
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- onion chopped fine (about 1/2 a small onion)
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese or a bit more if you like
- 1-2 lbs. ham or smoked sausage wrapped in foil
Instructions
- Stir all the ingredients together.
- Place ham or sausage in foil on top of potatoes, if you are making meat.
- Bake in an oven at 350 degrees for about 1 hour. Or cook in the slow cooker 5-6 hours on high or 7-8 hours on low.
I know that looks pretty messy. I just mixed the ingredients right in the crockpot. I wanted to have this with ham, but didn’t want the smoky taste to go through the potatoes too much so I used a trick I learned on Crockpot 365. I made a foil packet with the ham in it and placed it on top of the potatoes. Both foods cooked perfectly and the flavors didn’t mingle during the cooking.