Guys, it is mad snowing out right now.
Whats new, right? It has been snowing since September and won’t stop till June up here. Oh man, that’s still four months. My brother Brendan is currently in LA. I say currently because he wanders, like all over the country, no actually all over the world. He just got back from snowboarding all over Europe. He started in Turkey and from there he went to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, back to Germany, then on to Sweden, back to Turkey and finally back to California. Wow, rattling that all off just makes me tired. He is twenty-two, I am pretty sure he has seen more of the world than most eighty year olds.
So, yeah know he is in LA and apparently it is 80 degrees and sunny. I am jealous.
He is probably skateboarding (or maybe on his bike, who knows) around the La Brea Tar Pits, while stuffing his face with endless amounts of tacos from all the AWESOME food trucks that are parked on Wilshire Blvd come 10:30am.
If you have never been to LA, you need to go just to eat from all the food trucks. They are all over, making the tiny streets even more impossible to maneuver. Ugh, LA traffic is the worst. There are many reasons why living in LA was not for me, but the traffic was high up on my list! It is hard to handle. Although, right now I think I would trade the snow for the traffic and 80 degrees.
There was this food truck called Fresh Fries. Yeah, Fresh Fries. They made fancy fries and covered them in all kinds of crazy sauces. It was kind of awesome. I mean it was a truck devoted to all things fries. How could that not be awesome? The sweet potato fries were amazing.
I feel like these sweet potato parmesan tater tots with a spicy sriracha ketchup belong on their menu. I know they are technically not fries, but honestly they’re better. I rolled them in a coating of crushed sweet potato chips and baked them instead of frying. The results were so good. Crunchy outside, soft inside. The parmesan just put them over the top good. Like shovel one in after the next. It’s a good thing that one, they are baked and two, the sriracha ketchup adds some heat so water breaks are necessary.
Sweet, cheesy pillows of sweet potato parmesan heaven!
Ingredients
- Sweet Potato Tater Tots:
- 3 (about 1 1/2 pounds) medium sweet potatoes
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted or softened
- 3/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese, plus more for sprinkling
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 (6-7 ounce bag) cups sweet potato chips crumbs
- Spicy Sriracha Ketchup:
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons Sriracha (hot chili sauce)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Prick the sweet potatoes all over with fork. Bake directly on the rack until tender, 50-60 minutes. Allow to cool 10 minutes.
- Once cool use your hands to peel away the sweet potatoes skin. It should just easily slip off. Place the potatoes in a medium size bowl and mash with the butter. Stir in the parmesan cheese, salt and pepper to taste.
- Grease a baking sheet with olive oil and place the sweet potato chip crumbs (I recommend pulsing the chips in your food processore, you want fine crumbs, like bread crumbs) in a shallow bowl. Scoop about 1 tablespoon of the sweet potato mixture into you hand and roll into a cylinder. The sweet potato mixture will be wet, but this is fine. The shape does not need to be perfect and you can fix it once you have rolled them in the chips. Roll the sweet potatoes in the chips and coat well. If you need to re-shape the cylinders do so now. Place on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat until all of the sweet potato mixture is gone. Spray the tater tots with cooking spray and then sprinkle with more parmesan cheese if desired (do this!). Bake for 15 minutes and flip the the tater tots over and bake another 10-15 minutes or until golden and crisp. Remove from oven and serve immediately with the spicy sriracha ketchup.
- To make the spicy sriracha ketchup combine the ketchup and the sriracha in a small bowl.
I guess I will just have to pretend I am back in LA!
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Tieghan, these look amazing! I love sweet potatoes, so I know I will love them prepared like this….sweet, savory, spicy-hot….oh, my goodness! I want to try these! PINNED! Thanks!
Oh my gosh! I just love this recipe!!! I love that you are using sweet potatoes:) I can’t wait to try these…I am sure my family will love them. Thanks so much for sharing!
I adore sweet potatos =) I’ve never tried them like this, though. Pinning it to make later.
I eat sweet potatoes almost every night – This sounds like an AMAZING way to switch it up. I’m practically drooling.
drool. I’m making these for dinner tonight!
Yummy! I totally pinned this!
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Wow these look amazing! I’m totally inspired and are putting these on my list to make soon!
These sound incredible! Although I’m not normally a huge fries fan, I’d pound these for sure because sweet potatoes are delightful…
Beautiful photos!
Haha, I would trade places in a minute! I am only 4 hours north of LA and I am already sick of the warm weather. And its only been a couple of days. I am so excited because we have a cold front moving in next week (I know, means nothing to those who actually get snow). Sigh, I need to relocate…..
I so have to try these, I love sweet potatoes. And everyone in the house is a big fan of sriracha.
Ha, let trade house for a while?
WOW! These yummy bites look mighty mouth-watering. SO happy you shared at Weekend Potluck.
Thank you!
They look great. I love sweet potatoes and this is one more way to eat them. Thank you for sharing.
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I love sweet potatoes. I can’t wait to try these. I found your recipe on the Foodie Friday blog hop. I submitted Venetians. Hope you get a chance see them.
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Yummy! I made a couple of other dips. One was a chipotle mayo and the other was srirachi mayo. Delish!
I love sweet potatoes and I’m so excited to try these. Thanks for sharing.
These look amazing! I’ve pinned this recipe and can’t wait to try it! Thanks for sharing on Foodie Friends Friday!
These look amazing! We love sweet potatoes! Thanks for sharing at Church Supper. Have a blessed week & come back soon.
I’m going to my shopping list, and writing sweet potatoes. These look too good for words!
Wow, these look really good. We tried making our own sweet potato fries once but ran into trouble trying to cut them because the sweet potatoes are so hard. I looks like these wouldn’t have this problem.
Bril! I am making these this week – first chance I get.
I am always looking for new appetizer-like dishes. I will definitely be making these soon. And sriracha ketchup? What a great idea and will go well with so many other dishes!
I need to confirm…yes, it’s currently about 75 degrees F and sunny in LA
yesterday we hit the mid-80′s! But hey, I hope your oven warms up your place, because these look mighty delicious!
Ha, I am so jealous. The oven can only do so much!
Sweet potato! Love it! Another must try!
Love this idea, pinning it now. Thanks for sharing
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These look so good! Thank you for linking up on Foodie Friends Friday! Please come back this week to join us again!
You have some crazy snowboarding brothers! These tots make the top pf my must have list! Thanks for sharing at Show Me Your Plaid Monday’s!
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These sound awesome. My 3 year old loves sweet potatoes but the rest of us don’t. Gotta try these, I think these will please everyone.
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I’ve never had sweet potato tots, but I looove me some sweet potatoes! Will have to try this. Thanks!
These look SO good! Please stop by and link them up with my “Try a New Recipe Tuesday!” I’d love to have you join us.
It’s snowing like crazy here too. Blah. I’m ready for summer!! These tater tots look so amazing. I love sweet potatoes, and I really need to try these! I am featuring you tonight, Congrats!! Thanks for linking up to the Back for Seconds Social
Thanks for the feature!
i LOVE sweet potatoes! these look amazing, i can’t wait to try them!
These look yum! I’d love to have you link this to Titus 2 Tuesday this week on Cornerstone Confessions.. I hope to see you there.
Do you think it’s possible to bake the sweet potatos the night before to make it quicker to assemble the next night at supper?
Yes, that is a great idea!
Yum! These look wonderful! I’ve bookmarked these because I need them!
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I am so making these this weekend…I cannot resist a tater tot…but especially a sweet potato one!
These look amazing. You can never go wrong with sweet potato’s and these look absolutely delightful. One of my favorite sauces with sweet potato fries is a mixture of mayo, ketchup, and barbecue sauce I bet it would go wonderfully with these cute little tots!
Those look awesome! My little lady loves baked sweet potato fries, can’t wait to try those!
Super fun too!!!
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Stunning photos and wonderful food! Pinned it. Thanks for sharing on Two Cup Tuesday at Pint Sized Baker. Hope to see ya again Monday night!
Your recipe showed up in a number of link parties I checked out this week. They look so delicious I’ll definitely have to try it. Thanks!
Just stopping by from the Marvelous Mondays link party. Those tater tots look so good! I’m pinning them!
Greetings from the marvelous Monday recipe link up. These do look really good, On my to do list
Yum! Definitely pinning these so I can make them later. Stopping by from Marvelous Mondays!
Thanks for pinning!
These look delicious!! I LOVE sweet potatoes and what could be better than adding parmesan! For sure trying these out, and pinning now
Thanks for posting!
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Thanks for pinning!
Oh my goodness–drooling!
I love to make people drool!
What a great recipe! I am looking for ways to get my kids to expand their potato diet..I think this could be it.
This is it! My 4 year old sister loved these!
Yummy! I found you through the marvelous Monday link up. Definitely try this recipe out…maybe my hubby will eat sweet potatoes in this form.
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These look amazing!
Yum! We love sweet potatoes in our house, I am definitely trying these!
When you say “sweet potato chips,” do you mean something like Terra Chips? Like these? http://www.terrachips.com/our-chips/sweet-potato-chips …or do you mean something else? This looks like an awesome recipe…I want to try it out!
Yup, that is exactly what I mean! I hope you enjoy these!
Hi! Followed you over from Ginger Snap Crafts blog hop. Wow, do these look great! My 16 month old would love these. Now following you via FB : )
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These look heavenly! I’m a huge fan of french fries, and a french fry food truck would get regular business from me. My waistline is happy that such a thing does not exist in my neck of the woods. Anywho, I am also newly in love with sweet potatoes, and everything is better with parm. Definitely pinning this one!
Thanks for pinning! I hope you enjoy these!
These look delicious! What a lovely way to serve sweet potatoes
Thank you!
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Thanks so much for featuring these! Have a great weekend!
I have a recipe that uses sweet potatoes as ‘french toast sticks’ by baking a coating onto them. These remind me of the savory and tot version. Mine are sweet and sticks. I love these!!
Ok, wow I am coming to check those out they sound amazing!
Oh my gosh, these look amazing! And yes, we’ve already broken out the flip flops in Southern California… Luckily, I live about 45 minutes north and we don’t have that icky traffic!
Oh man, I am so jealous!!
Wow, these look so yummy! I’m always looking for ways to get our kids to eat sweet potatoes. Pinning!
We, in Saskatchewan, like you, are still waiting for spring to arrive. The snow is still high, but at least the weather is getting warmer.
Thanks fo pinning, I wish I could say the same about the warm weather!
These look SO GOOD! I saw them right before a trip to the grocery store and picked up a couple mammoth sweet potatoes to make them with. Thank you for the recipe. Pinning for future use.
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YES! I hope you love these!
Looks awesome!
Thank you Toi!!
These are so tasty! I just made them, and wow do parmesan and sweet potato taste wonderful together! I didn’t have sweet potato chips, so I subbed panko bread crumbs for the outside coating and they were delicious!
Yay!! Thanks so much for trying them Caroline!! I am so glad you liked them!