Cracker Barrel is one of my favorite restaurants to stop at when I am back home. I fell in love with them when I lived in Florida and every time I visit, I have to go for dinner…or lunch…or breakfast.

The last time I was there, my parents took us out to celebrate Chad’s birthday. I ordered country fried steak, mashed potatoes and biscuits. Oh my heavens! It is fabulous. All of it. Their breakfast is spectacular. I always drift back to their hash brown casserole. It’s loaded with cheese and onions and there is another flavor in there that I could just never figure out. Then I started researching it.

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Turns out chicken soup is the magic ingredient. So, at long last I was able to create the Copycat Cracker Barrel Hash Brown Casserole Recipe. I really like making my own cream of chicken soup, so I started with that. Then all you do is add the ingredients to a casserole dish, stir and bake. Easy peasy—my kind of recipe.

Perfect for breakfast or brinner, this copycat hash brown casserole is amazing. The only downside? It disappears so quickly.