A Midwestern favorite side dish often taken to families after a funeral these Crock-Pot Funeral Potatoes are also known as simply “cheesy potatoes”. This is a wonderfully delicious side dish recipe perfect for any potluck or family get-together.
![A Midwestern favorite side dish often taken to families after a funeral these Crock-Pot Funeral Potatoes are also known as simply "cheesy potatoes". This is a wonderfully delicious side dish recipe perfect for any potluck or family get-together. [recipe from CrockPotLadies.com]](https://crockpotladies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Crock-Pot-Funeral-Potatoes-1.jpg "A Midwestern favorite side dish often taken to families after a funeral these Crock-Pot Funeral Potatoes are also known as simply \"cheesy potatoes\". This is a wonderfully delicious side dish recipe perfect for any potluck or family get-together. [recipe from CrockPotLadies.com]")
Crock-Pot Funeral Potatoes
So this has turned out to be one of my favorite recipes, both for me, my family and my personal friends. They absolutely love when I whip up a batch of Crock-Pot Cheesy Potatoes. It’s an easy recipe to put together and makes a great dish to bring at a potluck or as a side dish. Now where I’m from we call them “Funeral Potatoes” because often big batches are put together and brought over to the family meal after a funeral. They work great with Ham or Roast Beef and are very filling. Kids love them because they are cheesy and they are potatoes and really is that not the best combo!
One of the tricks I use with this recipe, is I use Cream of Celery vs Cream of Mushroom.. I’m not a huge Cream of Mushroom fan, so realizing I could use cream of celery instead and it would only improve the flavor got me very excited! In this recipe I use frozen potatoes because chopping up potatoes for a recipe like this is time consuming and Idaho Potatoes or Russet have quite a bit of starch in them, so when you chop them up for meals like this, then turn red…so you then have to wash out the excess starch to have a pleasing color. Between chopping them the right size and then washing out the starch is way more then I’m going to put into a recipe. So I use Ore-Ida Diced Hash Browns because I don’t like the texture of shredded hash browns for this, it just becomes too mushy. The Diced Hash Browns are the perfect texture and stay intact The only time I would suggest chopping your own potatoes would be if your extremely salt restricted. You can easily skip the added salt but the Diced Hash Browns do enough salt in them, that very salt restricted would need to chop their own. I have done this recipe with full fat content cream cheese and sour cream and have done it with fat free and I couldn’t taste any difference. I prefer to use chopped onions for the recipe, but if you have family that doesn’t like onions, if you shred those onions they won’t be able to tell they are in the dish (insert my children 🙂 .)
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| Servings | 8people |
| Prep Time | 10minutes |
| Cook Time | 4 - 5hours on HIGH or 8 hours on LOW |
- 10.75 ounces canned cream of celery soup
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 whole onion chopped
- 1/4 cup butter melted
- 8 ounces cream cheese melted
- 1 teaspoon salt optional
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 32 ounces frozen diced hash brown potatoes such as Ore-Ida brand
- 2 cup cheddar cheese shredded
- non-stick cooking spray
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- Melt Butter on 50% power in microwave enough to get it softened. Pour into a large mixing bowl.
- Melt cream cheese in same container as butter on 50% power in 30 second increments, watching very closely to keep it from burning. Cream Cheese does not need to be liquid, it just needs to be softened enough to be able to be stirred. Pour into the same mixing bowl as the butter.
- Add the Cream of Celery Soup, Chopped Onion, Sour Cream, Garlic, Pepper and Salt to that same bowl and mix well.
- Then add potatoes and shredded cheese and mix carefully.
- Spray crock or liner with pam and then pour mixture in crock.
- Cover and cook on low for 8 hours or high 4-5 hours or until potatoes are tender.
- If your Crock has a tendency to burn, you can stir this a couple of times to even out the heat.
- Their is nothing in the dish that needs to be baked to a certain temperature, so stirring once or twice is no big deal, as you do lose a bit of heat that way.
- I use a Crock-Pot liner as it's much less mess.
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Crock-Pot Used In This Crock-Pot Funeral Potatoes Recipe:
Crock-Pot 6.5-Quart, Programmable Touchscreen Slow Cooker, Silver, SCVT650-PS (Kitchen)
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I have made these for Christmas with a 24 hour omellete for the past 10 years , tried to not make them for breakfast one year and got yelled at by the kids!! One even said , “mom this is a tradition that I plan on carrying onto my own family” I do add bacon or cubed ham to it tho just to add a little something extra.
would you care to9 share your 24 hour omlet receipe
Could you make these with russet potatoes too? If so, how many do you think you would need?
Yes. It is going to depend on the size of the potatoes. I would think about the same as the recipe calls for with maybe one or two less.
Happy spring Ladies&gents…Thanks for recipe. Sounds like 1000 calories. In my circle we say often “Homegoing”…vs funeral…
May title them cheesey surprise, especially if I add in thick slice maple bacon… Guilty pleasure 3 X a year or so. I really shouldn’t be eating bacon… Thanks for recipe. Have a Blessed safe week………come on warm temperatures to MARYLAND…☆☆☆☆☆.
Thanks for dropping by Christel and the cheery comment! And bacon…everything is better with bacon right?
LOVED this! My family said it’s a keeper. If I double the recipe, do I need to increase the cook time?
Since you’re really just warming everything up, I don’t think you’ll need to. The only thing that really “cooks” is the onion.. So you could saute on them on the stove for a few minutes if you’re concerned.
Glad to liked them!
Funeral potatoes? Why would you call them that? That is sickening to me. Like I am going to tell my kids I am making something like that! Just pure stupidity from the Midwest. Can’t stand you “Heartlanders”.
Well aren’t you just a pure ray of sunshine Kyle Ray?
They are called funeral potatoes because it is a dish you bring to grieving families to a funeral. It is called being kind, caring and compassionate.
YOU can call them what ever you want…cheesy potatoes works just fine.
Oh PLEASE block that woman above. If I get some friends to join to make up for her, could you? Imagine! Blaming you for the name of a dish. They have been called Funeral Potatoes since the beginning of last century! Probably further back than that.
We don’t normally block readers and I totally get that some folks are put off by the name. But we stand our ground with the name. It is what people in our circles call them. And in fact…it is one of our top searches here on the site. A rose by any other name….and all that jazz.
Thanks for your support Melissa we appreciate it!
Keep your comments and sarcasm about ppl from the heartland to yourself.
@Kyle Ray
One of my favorite dishes. I will be making it for President’s Day this year. Somehow the name fits the atmosphere!
That is awesome Gina!