![]() The dish is usually seasoned lightly with salt and pepper, and it may be eaten with ketchup as a condiment. Potatoes may be in the form of tater tots, hash browns, potato chips, or shoe string potatoes. Typical ingredients in hotdish are potatoes or pasta, ground beef, green beans, and corn, with canned soup added as a binder, flavoring and sauce. Tater tot hotdish from the Saint Paul, Minnesota Winter Carnival They are well-suited for family reunions, funerals, church suppers, and covered dish dinners or potlucks where they may be paired with potato salad, coleslaw, Jello salads, Snickers salad, and pan-baked desserts known as bars. Hotdishes are filling, convenient, and easy to make. Anderson had submitted the recipe for a HOT DISH made with hamburger, onions, Creamette pasta, celery, a can of peas, tomato soup and tomatoes. Mankato resident, Joyce Nelson, 90, had a copy of the 1930 Lutheran church recipe book and it was found that the recipe was indeed included in that year's cookbook. The source included neither the name of the woman that invented the recipe nor the source. In 2016 Food & Wine credited a 1930 Mankato church congregation as the first written record of a hotdish recipe. In years past, a pasta was the most frequently used starch, but tater tots and local wild rice have become very popular as well. The history of the hotdish goes back to when "budget-minded farm wives needed to feed their own families, as well as congregations in the basements of the first Minnesota churches." According to Howard Mohr, author of How to Talk Minnesotan, "A traditional main course, hotdish is cooked and served hot in a single baking dish and commonly appears at family reunions and church suppers." The most typical meat for many years has been ground beef, and cream of mushroom remains the favorite canned soup. A typical covered dish dinner or potluck with desserts and bars at one end, salads, and hot dishes at the other end ![]()
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