

Seasonings: Toss your thawed tater tots in a tablespoon of your favorite seasoning blends like a Cajun seasonings, Taco Seasoning, or Ranch Dressing Mix before cooking.Depending on the type you use, you may need to add more seasoning and flavor. Try sweet potato tater tots, shredded hash browns, home fries, or Potatoes O’Brien. Potatoes: You can use most other frozen potatoes for Waffle Tots.Once they’re nice and crispy remove them with this food flipper that won’t crush your waffles (our favorite kitchen tool ever).

The tots will get thinner and that’s okay, this will cook them all the way through without burning. Secure top of waffle iron as tightly you can (without breaking it).Watch your fingers! That waffle iron plate is hot, so unless you are closely supervising this isn’t a good recipe for kids to try on their own.If you have a Belgian waffle maker you could layer some tots on top for thick Tater Tot Waffles. Place the tater tots close together on the waffle iron plate.If you forgot to take them out of the freezer in time, pop them in the microwave for a minute or two on high.

CHESSY FRIES AND TATER TOTS CRACKER
Just pop them on the waffle iron as soon as it’s hot and in 10 minutes you’ve got round two of a side dish instead of throwing the tots away.ĮASY BREAKFAST RECIPES: Cheesy Bacon Breakfast Burrito Breakfast Sausage Gravy Sloppy Joes Grilled Cheese Breakfast Casserole Cracker Barrel Hash Brown Casserole (Copycat)

Tater Tot Waffles are great way to use up leftover takeout tater tots (or french fries) since the waffle iron gets them crispy again without overcooking them. Easily make the ultimate grilled cheese with Tater Tot Waffles too. Check out the topping ideas and variations later in the post. A delicious easy dinner idea is to serve Tater Tot Waffles with a bowl of Beef Chili. You can serve Tater Tot Waffles so many different ways! Dip them in Fry Sauce at lunch or serve Tater Tot Waffles with brunch favorites. Use Tater Tot Fries instead of fries, hash browns, or sandwich bread for any meal. No peeling, no chopping, and no watching the skillet to flip at the exact right time, these Tater Tot Waffles are the easiest hash browns ever! With only 2 ingredients, unless your tots need extra salt, you get crispy potatoes that taste delicious and are the perfect side for almost anything. Move over Hash Browns, the ultimate side dish for all Breakfast Recipes has arrived! Whatever you choose to put on your totchos, I think you’ll find they’re a fun way to use leftover barbecued meat and a welcome change to traditional nachos.Crispy Tater Tot Waffles are crazy crispy, easy, and fun! As a grilled cheese, with bacon and eggs, or loaded with toppings, they’re great for breakfast or dinner. You can load-up your totchos with every topping under the sun, or keep it simple like I’ve done here with just tots, chopped brisket, cheddar cheese, barbecue sauce, and some green onions for color. Some sort of melty cheese is also a requirement, either shredded cheese or a cheese sauce or ideally both for maximum cheesy goodness. Brisket, pork butt, and chicken are the obvious choices here, just make sure to chop the meat finely and spread it around generously so you get meat and tot in every bite. Just swap out tortilla chips for tater tots in your favorite nachos, making sure to add plenty of barbecued meat and barbecue sauce on top. So…this isn’t really a recipe as much as it’s a suggested substitute ingredient. The one thing I will suggest is that if you have a home deep fryer or you’re willing to break-out a dutch oven and a few quarts of vegetable oil, now is the time to do so because there’s no better tot than a deep fried tater tot! They’ll work just fine in this application, as will any of the other varieties including Mini Tater Tots, Crispy Crowns, Extra Crispy Tater Tots, or Onion Tater Tots. They’re appearing on more restaurant menus in addition to (or as a replacement for) french fries, gourmet versions are showing up in some restaurants, and there are even DIY tater tot recipes on food television programs like Cook’s Country on PBS.Īs for me, I can’t imagine going to all the trouble to make my own tater tots from scratch when the frozen ones from Ore-Ida that we all know and love are pretty darned good, especially when baked nice and crispy. Well, maybe I shouldn’t say “childhood favorite” because at the time writing in early 2018, tater tots seem to be increasing in popularity everywhere. Totchos are a fun play on nachos that substitute everyone’s childhood favorite-the tater tot-for tortilla chips.
