Crockpot Hashbrown Casserole with Smoked Sausage
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Crockpot Hashbrown Casserole with Smoked Sausage is easy and tasty. Plus the whole family is sure to love it! Comfort food here we come!
Hashbrown Casserole Recipe
Another crockpot recipe is here! Warm, Hashbrown Casserole with Smoked Sausage! It’s easy, simple, and super delicious! My kids gobbled this one up, which is sort of a miracle these days plus, this took a whole 10 minutes to throw together.
Main Ingredients Needed
Here lies this magical crockpot hashbrown casserole recipe. No secrets here; I stuffed my crockpot with a package of defrosted hash brown potatoes, smoked sausages, onions, and cheese. Not a bad combination if I do say so myself. Plus it’s super easy to throw together, here’s what you’ll need:
- Hashbrowns – frozen hashbrowns to be exact! I bought the cubed kind instead of the shredded.
- Smoked Sausage – this is where a lot of the flavor will come from, diced.
- Onion – this always brings a subtle but impactful flavor to dishes.
- Cheddar Cheese – shredded. What a good combo!
- Homemade Cream of Chicken Condensed Soup – you can alternatively use canned cream of chicken soup. Just make sure to add in enough liquid to get yourself up to 2 cups. So can of soup + water/milk/liquid of choice equal 2 cups…make sense? To make the homemade kind you’ll need butter, flour, water, whole milk, chicken bouillon paste, thyme, poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper.
If you love smoked sausage, try these other recipes: Smoked Sausage Pasta, Italian Sausage Pasta with Peppers, Smoked Sausage Corn Chowder, and Pressure Cooker Creamy Cajun Pasta.
How to Make Crockpot Hashbrown Casserole
- For the homemade condensed cream of chicken soup, melt butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Sprinkle in flour and whisk. Cook 1 minute. Stir in water and whisk to remove any lumps. Simmer until thick, then stir in milk and chicken bouillon paste plus the seasonings. The sauce should thicken slightly at this point. Taste and adjust seasonings. Set aside.
- Place the hashbrowns, smoked sausage, onion, and cheese together in a lightly greased crockpot. Pour over condensed soup and stir. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours or until potatoes are soft and sausages are hot.
- Add a little more cheese to melt over the top once you’re ready to eat and that’s dinner! Do you see what I mean by easy? Serve hot.
Leftovers
Any leftovers you have of this tasty Crockpot Hashbrown Casserole should be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 5 days. To reheat, simply portion out the amount you need then pop into the microwave until heated through, occasionally stirring.
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The printable recipe card is below, enjoy this tonight. Have a wonderful weekend, friends!
Crockpot Hashbrown Casserole with Smoked Sausage
Ingredients
homemade cream of chicken condensed soup
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon paste*
- 1/2 teaspoon thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- salt & pepper to taste
plus:
- 32 ounces hash browns 1 bag defrosted
- 14 ounces smoked sausage diced
- 1 small onion diced
- 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese grated
Instructions
- For the homemade condensed cream of chicken soup, melt butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Sprinkle in flour and whisk. Cook 1 minute. Stir in water and whisk to remove any lumps. Simmer until thick, then stir in milk and chicken bouillon paste plus the seasonings. The sauce should thicken slightly at this point. Taste and adjust seasonings. Set aside.
- Place the hashbrowns, smoked sausage, onion, and cheese together in a lightly greased crockpot. Pour over condensed soup and stir. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours or until potatoes are soft and sausages are hot. Serve.
Just put this in the crock pot, using canned heart healthy cream of chicken soup enough water to make 2 cups as suggested. I also tried one of those Reynolds crock pot liners to help with the clean up. I will post the results when it’s done.
This sounds great for nights when both boys have basketball games! I’m going to give it a shot on thursday.
Added this to my recipe book
Chicken or Beef paste is called Chicken Base in the stores. They come in small jars.
First of all, it’s not a crockpot- it’s a ‘slow cooker.’ Keep it simple: use canned soup. Rather than mushy hash browns, I prefer the appearance and texture of tater tots. Also, use red onion for added color and a little sweetness.
I make something similar (potato cass). Try adding a can of corn (drain it first). It’s great.
How long would you cook this in the oven for and at what temperature, if you don’t have a crockpot?
Christmas morning????
sounds good
Company breakfast
looks good
Looks so good!
Sound pretty good, but I don’t like onions…I also have to be careful any sausage I use doesn’t contain beef…since beef bothers my stomach.
I tried this a few weeks ago and it was tasty! My 4yo ate it without complaints (ALWAYS a bonus). I like the option for using canned (super quick and easy) or homemade (still pretty quick and easy and HOMEMADE!) soup mix. Thank you! I’m adding this to my lunch schedule this week again.
looks Delicious!!! can it be doubled
I love you Lauren!!!! Lol!
Could you please list the measurements/amounts for the ingredients in your Smoked Sausage Hasbrown Casserole
In my crockpot now! Used jalapeno sausage, corn instead of potatoes, and cream of mushroom soup because it’s what I had on hand 🙂
Can this be made on low overnight? Delicous by the way! 🙂
I made this exactly how the recipe shows and my hash brows were mushy. Are they suppose to be like that?
Maybe your crockpot cooks faster than mine? Mine were not mushy.
We have made this 3 times now. I added a small can of green chilies and use cream of mushroom soup. thank you!!!
I have made this many times. It is equally good with diced ham.
This hashbrown sausage casserole souhded so good, Im trying it out today! But I pre-cook the sausage nd onions. I don’t like the taste of raw onions and wa mñn t to cut down on the gease.
Brand name for the chicken bouillon paste is “Better than Bouillon” I use it for all my chicken recipes. Wonderful stuff…
Thats what I use!!
Mmm
Could I use diced potatoes instead of frozen
This looks like something that could encourage me to get out of bed if I prepared it and put the slow cooker on a timer! But I’m in the UK and can’t imagine our frozen hash browns being used like that. Ours are two-inch triangles of grated potato that are browned a little before they’re frozen. Are they like that in the US?
No, ours are like half inch squares or completely shredded. You can try dicing regular potatoes into small squares instead?!
Could u put in crockpot on low for 6 hrs?
I need to cook this on low as I’m at work all day, how long should I cook for on low?
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goingout to by all these thing and have them for tomorrow nite dinner thank you for a good meal.
Wow, this sounds wonderful! Am going to do it for sure! Thanks!
I LOVE YOU for making this homemade condensed soup recipe! I loathe using canned soups!
We always have a Christmas morning casserole brunch and I am always looking for an easy dish to make. Will definitely try this. Thanks
Would this be safe to freeze?
I tried this yesterday and it’s very good. One question, I cooked on high for 3 hours and my hash browns turned into mashed potatoes. Is that supposed to happen?
I made this exactly as is and it came out soupy and wilted looking
any way to estimate the calories per say 4 or 6 oz serving?
Saw this shared on Facebook! Can’t wait to try it…. Fixing it for dinner tonight. Btw… I tried to pin it to my Pinterest board and it just linked to one of the pictures on the site for this recipe…. Didn’t have where you could get to the recipe through the pin. Just thought you should know! Thanks again for this recipe!!
Can you use canned cream of chicken condensed soup instead of the homemade? If so, what id the amount or how many cans to this recipes?
Can you mix scrambled eggs to this to make it a breakfast? If so how much eggs would you use?
Help!!! Can I bake in oven instead???? Need to do this tonight!!!
I am definitely going to try this.Thank you for sharing?
How much sodium is in it, How many MG of sodium?
Thank You
Garry
Looks tasty
If u di t want to make homemade cream of chicken condensed soup do u just use 1 can of cream of chicken?
While reading the recipe, I had a wild idea of this being a breakfast type of meal, just replace the home made cream chicken soup with (?) number of beaten eggs, and maybe add some diced green & red bell pepper for color / flavor.
Got to try this
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Thanks for making your recipe so I could print it. Really sounds delicious !!!
Could you just add diced potatoes instead of the frozen ones?