Three Cheese Baked Mashed Potatoes

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This baked cheesy potato dish is a family favorite. It is excellent with chicken or BBQ ribs.

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Ingredients

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

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  • In a 2 quart casserole, combine mashed potatoes, Cheddar cheese, American cheese, Parmesan cheese, bacon bits (reserving 1 tablespoon of the bacon bits for later use), onion, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Stir until the cheeses begin to melt.

  • Combine melted butter, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, reserved bacon bits, onion powder and bread crumbs. Crumble mixture over the potato-cheese mixture.

  • Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until the topping has browned.

Cook's Note:

I use real fresh mashed potatoes for this. Make sure they're still hot when you prepare this, so the cheeses start to melt.

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving:
613.32 calories; 29.93 g protein; 31.39 g carbohydrates; 41.03 g fat; 118.98 mg cholesterol; 1575.9 mg sodium.Full Nutrition

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BARB MAXWELL
12/22/2003
Okay so I cheated A LOT with this recipe and only used it as an idea. First I didn't use instant potatoes but freshed mashed my own. Second I didn't use bacon bits. I used about 1/2 C. real bacon diced fried crisp and drained well. (about 6-8 slices) Then along with all the other ingredients added about 3 oz of cream cheese 1/2 c sour cream and a little over 1/4 diced velveeta cheese. Instead of onions which my husband can't eat I used about 1 1/2 Tablespoons of chopped chives. I also used seasoned bread crumbs instead of plain ones on top. The leftover kept well in the refrig and reheated like a dream.
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Anonymous
03/24/2006
Terrible. I don't know why but all these flavor combos were so bad! I hated the onion especially! Will not make again. Thanks anyway.
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66 Ratings
  • 5 Rating Star 29
  • 4 Rating Star 27
  • 2 Rating Star 5
  • 3 Rating Star 4
  • 1 Rating Star 1
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BARB MAXWELL
12/22/2003
Okay so I cheated A LOT with this recipe and only used it as an idea. First I didn't use instant potatoes but freshed mashed my own. Second I didn't use bacon bits. I used about 1/2 C. real bacon diced fried crisp and drained well. (about 6-8 slices) Then along with all the other ingredients added about 3 oz of cream cheese 1/2 c sour cream and a little over 1/4 diced velveeta cheese. Instead of onions which my husband can't eat I used about 1 1/2 Tablespoons of chopped chives. I also used seasoned bread crumbs instead of plain ones on top. The leftover kept well in the refrig and reheated like a dream.
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Anonymous
11/12/2003
Absolutly amazing! This is totally worth the extra effort involved. I made this with homemade mashed potatoes and real crumbled bacon.
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Anonymous
07/24/2003
This recipe is really great I made it for company the first time and everyone loved it I gave them the recipe. I used real mashed potatoes and real bacon and it was delicious! Sandra Riotto
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Momof2
12/06/2003
These were good but I changed up the recipe a bit. I used real potatoes instead of the instant ones used green onions and added garlic butter (from this site) to add a little more flavor. Good recipe....thanks for posting.
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DREGINEK
07/24/2003
Pretty tasty. I added some chopped green onions insted of reg onions. I agree with another reviewer who said that a full cup of bread crumbs may be too much...next time I'll reduce the crumb toppping mix by half. It's good and I will make again playing around with perhaps sprinkling some butter over the potatoes before the bread crumbs or perhaps some sour cream (?). Sometimes things need practice before they're perfect.
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Navy_Mommy
11/05/2003
If you have to eat instant mashed potatoes this is the way to do it. I don't care for instant potatoes but with all the cheese and extra flavoring you don't even realize they are instant. I did use real bacon rather than bacon bits though.
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Anonymous
03/29/2005
It had a really good flavor but too much topping. Next time I will saute the onion and only make half of the topping.
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CBH10
07/24/2003
Very good. Next time I'd make and use only half of the crumb topping. It just seemed to make too much.
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Anonymous
06/17/2007
Fantastic! Instead of bread crumbs I used saltines.
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