When looking to bring comfort and sustenance to a grieving family, funeral potatoes are often the dish of choice. This classic American casserole is a comforting and delicious dish that is easy to make and can feed a crowd. With its creamy potato base, cheesy topping, and crispy onion topping, it is a dish that is sure to please everyone. Funeral potatoes are typically made with simple ingredients that are easy to find at any grocery store, and the dish can be easily customized to suit your own tastes. Whether you prefer a cheesy casserole or a crispy hash brown topping, there is a funeral potato recipe out there for you.
Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!
BASIC FUNERAL POTATOES
No Mormon funeral or any get-together for that matter is complete without funeral potatoes and a baked ham! This is only a basic recipe. It's good this way, but it's up to you to make it 'gourmet.' You can use potato chips, tortilla chips, or even corn flakes for the topping - I like to use sour cream and onion chips!
Provided by Vivian Conner
Categories Side Dish Casseroles Potato Casserole
Time 55m
Yield 10
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Combine cream of chicken soup, sour cream, Cheddar cheese, and onions in a large bowl. Mix in hash browns. Pour into a 9x13-inch casserole dish. Sprinkle with crushed potato chips.
- Bake uncovered in the preheated oven until cheese is melted and top is crisp, about 45 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 339.5 calories, Carbohydrate 27.6 g, Cholesterol 42.8 mg, Fat 26.8 g, Fiber 1.8 g, Protein 9.6 g, SaturatedFat 13.4 g, Sodium 587.3 mg, Sugar 1.6 g
FUNERAL POTATOES
Ree Drummond's funeral potatoes from Food Network are extra comforting with lots of cheese and even potato chips.
Provided by Ree Drummond : Food Network
Categories side-dish
Time 1h15m
Yield 12 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with 1 tablespoon of the butter. Take the potatoes out of the freezer while you are preparing the rest of the ingredients.
- Heat a large, deep skillet over medium-high heat, then melt 6 tablespoons of the butter in it. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions start to soften, 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle the flour over the onions and stir to incorporate. Cook for a minute or 2 to cook out the raw flour, but do not let it color. Whisk in the milk, making sure to get out all the lumps. Add the broth and whisk again if there are still lumps. Bring the mixture to a simmer and allow it to thicken, about 3 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Turn off the heat and stir in the Monterey Jack, sour cream and Cheddar. Add the hash brown potatoes and mix everything together. Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking dish.
- Melt the remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a small pan. Put the potato chips and Parmesan in a bowl and crush the potato chips. Pour in the melted butter and toss to coat. Sprinkle the crumbs over the top of the potatoes.
- Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes, then remove the foil and continue baking until golden brown on top and bubbling around the edges, about 15 minutes more. Let rest for 15 minutes before serving.
FUNERAL POTATOES
I'm not sure where they get their name, but they sure are tasty! (and they don't have to be served at funerals either!!)
Provided by Lubie
Categories Potato
Time 55m
Yield 1 pan, 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Saute onion in 1 tablespoon butter until translucent.
- Mix all ingredients, except cornflakes and 4 tablespoons butter, together.
- Put potato mixture into a 9x13 inch baking pan.
- Combine cornflakes and butter, and sprinkle evenly over top of casserole.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 40-50 minutes or until heated and bubbly.
CHEESY HASHBROWN POTATO CASSEROLE {FUNERAL POTATOES}
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Lightly grease a 9 x 13 inch pan with non stick cooking spray.
- Place half of the bag of hashbrowns in the prepared pan.
- In a medium bowl combine the soup, sour cream, onions, and salt and pepper.
- Gently spoon half of this mixture over the hashbrowns in the pan.
- Sprinkle 1 cup of cheese over the soup mixture.
- Then add the remainder of the hashbrowns on top, and spoon over remaining soup mixture and the other half of cheese.
- Crush the Ritz crackers and combine with the melted butter. Sprinkle over the top of the casserole.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
SLOW COOKER FUNERAL POTATOES
This delicious dish known as 'funeral potatoes' is easy to make. I topped mine with more cheese and sliced green onions. A great addition to this would be bacon bits, making it taste almost like a fully loaded baked potato.
Provided by Yoly
Categories Side Dish Casseroles Potato Casserole
Time 3h
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Line a slow cooker with a slow cooker liner or spray with cooking spray.
- Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat and cook onion until soft and translucent, 5 to 6 minutes.
- Place onion, hash browns, mushroom soup, 1 1/2 cups Cheddar cheese, sour cream, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in the slow cooker. Stir until well combined.
- Cook on High until hash browns are tender, 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Top with remaining 1/2 cup Cheddar cheese and cook until cheese is melted, 15 to 20 minutes. Top with green onions.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 415.8 calories, Carbohydrate 25.3 g, Cholesterol 71.7 mg, Fat 35.1 g, Fiber 2 g, Protein 13.8 g, SaturatedFat 19.6 g, Sodium 994.6 mg, Sugar 2.3 g
FUNERAL POTATOES
This dish was served at my aunt's home after a family funeral. The woman who brought this fabulous dish had no name for it, so in my family, it is now known as the 'Funeral Potatoes'. I make it for every holiday and special barbecues too.
Provided by Nancy Mottu
Categories Side Dish Potato Side Dish Recipes
Time 15m
Yield 11
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch casserole dish.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the processed cheese, sour cream, mushroom soup, celery soup, water, 1/2 of the margarine and salt and pepper to taste.
- Place potatoes in prepared dish, add soup mixture and mix well.
- Mix crumbs with remaining melted margarine and sprinkle over top of potato casserole.
- Bake at 325 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 to 50 minutes or until crumbs are lightly browned and casserole is bubbling.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 417.5 calories, Carbohydrate 37 g, Cholesterol 65 mg, Fat 30.3 g, Fiber 2.4 g, Protein 10.7 g, SaturatedFat 16.3 g, Sodium 1296.2 mg, Sugar 4.8 g
CHEESY FUNERAL POTATOES
I have yet to find a recipe for cheesy potatoes to beat my mother's! Definitely the best comfort food and awesome with a side of ham. This recipe has canned green chilies in it which gives it that extra something to top the usual funeral potatoes!
Provided by Amber C.
Categories Potato
Time 35m
Yield 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- *Reduced or fat free ingredients it will change the overall flavor and consistency so keep that in mind if reviewing :)*.
- Boil potatoes with skin on and 1 bay leaf for about 20-25 minutes (make sure you do not over boil your potatoes, they still need to be firm enough to grate). Prep or cook time doesn't include boil time.
- Peel and grate cooled potatoes into your 9x13 baking dish.
- In a saucepan heat butter, coc soup, sour cream, 1 c cheese, onions and chilies; stir until ingredients have melted or are well combined.
- S & P to taste.
- Add grated potatoes to saucepan and mix until blended.
- Add 5 oz milk or just enough that mixture isn't too wet.
- Spoon into the 9x13 baking dish.
- Top with remaining cheese and bake @ 350 degrees for 20 minutes Optional: If you like a little crunch, add corn flakes or broken potato chips to the top of the cheese.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 326.2, Fat 22.2, SaturatedFat 13.2, Cholesterol 59.7, Sodium 409.9, Carbohydrate 25.2, Fiber 2.6, Sugar 3, Protein 7.8
HILL'S FUNERAL POTATOES
We actually serve these at holidays but everyone knows them as funeral potatoes so that is the name we will stick with.
Provided by Hill Family
Categories < 60 Mins
Time 50m
Yield 10-12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Mix all the ingredients together except the cornflakes and the 4 tbsp butter. Place in a 9x13 inch pan.
- SPrinkle cornflakes and cubes of butter on top.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minute.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 550.2, Fat 38.4, SaturatedFat 17.3, Cholesterol 62.8, Sodium 937.3, Carbohydrate 42.4, Fiber 3.1, Sugar 2.3, Protein 10.1
CREAMY & CHEESY FUNERAL POTATOES RECIPE - (4/5)
Provided by Foodiewife
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9-x-13-inch baking dish with 1 tablespoon of the butter. Take the potatoes out of the freezer while you are preparing the rest of the ingredients. Heat a large, deep skillet (or Dutch oven) over medium-high heat, then melt 6 tablespoons of the butter in it. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions start to soften, 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle the flour over the onions and stir to incorporate. Cook for a minute or 2 to cook out the raw flour, but do not let it color. Whisk in the milk, making sure to get out all the lumps. Add the broth and whisk again if there are still lumps. Bring the mixture to a simmer and allow it to thicken, about 3 minutes. Note: Mine didn't thicken as much as I'd like, so I added about another 1/4 cup of flour.) Season to taste with salt and pepper. Turn off the heat and stir in the Monterey Jack, sour cream and Cheddar. Add the hash brown potatoes and mix everything together. Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking dish. Melt the remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a small pan. Put the potato chips (or corn flakes) and Parmesan in a bowl and crush the potato chips. Pour in the melted butter and toss to coat. Sprinkle the crumbs over the top of the potatoes. Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes, then remove the foil and continue baking until golden brown on top and bubbling around the edges, about 15 minutes more. Note: Depending on your oven, you might need about 25 minutes of baking time. The casserole should be bubbly and slightly brown around the edges. Let rest for 15 minutes before serving.
FUNERAL POTATOES
This recipe is from the "Whitrock Family Cookbook". It was submitted by Julie Elmenhorst Hammes who notes "My Grandma Dorothy Hammes gave me this recipe. We call these funeral potatoes because they are the most popular dish at all the funeral dinners in our home town."
Provided by Linda Elmenhorst
Categories Potatoes
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- 1. Heat Oven to 350. In a large bowl, place hash browns and season with salt and pepper. In a separate bowl, combine chicken soup, cheese, onion and sour cream; add to potatoes. Spoon into a buttered 3 quart casserole dish.
- 2. Mix butter and crushed corn flakes; sprinkle over the potatoes. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
- 3. This can be divided in half and put into two smaller buttered casserole dishes and frozen.
Tips:
- Select the right potatoes: Yukon Gold potatoes are a great choice for funeral potatoes, as they have a creamy texture and hold their shape well.
- Boil the potatoes until they are tender: This will ensure that they are cooked through and easy to mash.
- Use a generous amount of butter and cream: This will make the funeral potatoes rich and flavorful.
- Season the potatoes well: Salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder are all essential seasonings for funeral potatoes.
- Add your favorite mix-ins: Diced ham, crumbled bacon, or shredded cheese are all popular additions to funeral potatoes.
- Bake the funeral potatoes until they are golden brown: This will give them a crispy crust and a creamy interior.
Conclusion:
Funeral potatoes are a classic comfort food that is perfect for any occasion. They are easy to make, can be customized to your liking, and are always a hit with a crowd. So the next time you are looking for a delicious and satisfying dish to serve, give funeral potatoes a try.
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