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Oh man, oh man.
I have been dying to tell you guys about these for days. Daaayyyyzzz. Just oh my gosh.
It’s like a tater tot, but instead of the tater, there’s pumpkin, and um – lots of cheese! Oh yes.
The inspiration for these came from these sweet potato parmesan tater tots. Basically, I just wanted another excuse to make some darn tots! But then I started thinking, ok well not really. I just spotted the cute “sugar pie” pumpkin sitting on my kitchen table and was like, “oh I can roast that. I should totally roast that. Oh and I can add cheese and chipotle and…. YUM.”
Then the best part hit me.
Holy moly, I can totally turn the pumpkin into tater tots! Yes, yes, yes!!
But they’re not tater tots, because a pumpkin is a squash so they are more like squash tots, but that just sounded super weird. So plain old tots it is.
I love this combo of chipotle cheddar mixed with pumpkin. It’s a little different than the traditional sage or cinnamon that you get when roasting pumpkin. Not that I don’t love those flavors, because I definitely do, but this combo is really different and works great.
Actually, our house has been smelling a lot like Thanksgiving this week.
It’s kind of awesome.
Except for the part where I honestly almost caught the whole oven on fire.
Long story short I needed some toasted coconut, but I needed it like right that second. So genius me thought to use the broiler…….
and then forget about it for five minutes.
FYI – it was four minutes and 30 seconds too long. It ended in me pulling out a flaming pan of flambe coconut. Sounds cool right, coconut flames? Yeah, well trust me it was SO not cool. They were some BIG flames.
Honestly, sometimes I should not be allowed in the kitchen.
The other day I caught a towel on fire. Most day’s I burn the heck out of my skin and yesterday the milk boiled over. Yeah, that was really not fun to clean up.
But hey, at least I got the pumpkin tots out of the oven before they burned!
Success!
These are really pretty simple to make. Just roast a pumpkin like you would a sweet potato, mash it up, add some seasonings and cheese and then coat them in crushed up sweet potato chips. Yeah, that right there tells you these things are going to be amazing!
Then you bake them to crispy perfection. And while they bake to said perfection you should probably start making the avocado blue cheese ranch. That stuff is good just on its own, but pair it with these tots…
UNREAl. You have to make these. Hey, and they are perfect for Thursday night football too.
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Pumpkin tot stacks!
I made these! (Mine here! http://bit.ly/1QHLmpN ) They were WONDERFUL. I used a sweet cinnamon dip instead of the avocado one and made a few little changes to the recipe (we smoked our pumpkin) and they’re spot on. So great, thanks for the recipe!
Awesome! THANKS!
They’re in the oven right now, can’t wait to taste , the whole house smells awesome!
I used a mix of corn flakes and panko to coat them, hope they’ll turn out as cripsy as yours seems to be !
Thanks for the recipe, that like all the other ones on your website, is really amazing =)
Yay! I hope you loved them! THANKS!
These sound so good!
Thanks Kevin!
Brilliant! Love that they’re coated in sweet potato chips… you can never have too many orange veggies in my opinion! 🙂
Oh I so agree! Orange veggies are the best! Thanks Erin!
SHUT UP. I cannot even handle this right now. Amazing lady.
LOL! Thanks Des!
Ohhh yummy yummy. Pumpkin tots, they look so darn delicious. They look so inviting and the outer crispness, you did good.
Thanks Ash!
Pumpkin tots?? Yes, pah-lease!!! My family would just gobble these right up!! 😉
Thanks Jocelyn! They are really fun!
Yummmmmm! This one sounds sooooooo good and crunchy!
Thank you so much, Sophia!
All I can think about is Napoleon Dynamite and Gimme Your TOTS!!! It’s just too much awesome for me to handle
Haha! Thanks so much, Megan! 🙂
I’m not sure which I love more. The fact that you made pumpkin tots or that you coated them in sweet potato chips. The award for most creative pumpkin recipe I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a ton of them, of course!) goes to you. Loving everything about these!
Thank you!! I have to say that is a big complement! You are so awesome, Sally!! But I mean, I still can’t make a pumpkin cookie like you can! 🙂 You remain the pumpkin wiz there! 🙂
Thanks Again!
Oh my gosh girl…. The hits just keep on comming. I will be taking a “stay-cation” this month. I will be “playing” in the kitchen. This is going on my to-do list.!!! Honestly, you are so young and so talented…..I wish I was you!!!
Haha! Trust me, I am not sure anyone wants to live inside my brain! It is a crazy person zone! LOL!
Thank you so much, Rie! And have a great “stay-cation”! That sounds awesome! Hope you love these!
Oh my those look yummy! Definitely a great recipe 🙂
Happy Blogging!
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Thank you!
Truly amazing use of pumpkin, Tieghan. And right down to the sweet potato chip breadcrumbs. With Avocado Blue Cheese Ranch. You are so creative. Mind-blowingly! Pinned!
Awe wow! Thank you so much, Averie! You always do leave the best comments and this one made my day! Thanks for pinning!
I’m obsessed with adding chipotle to squash and that sweet potato chip coating is genius!
Me too! I love the sweet and spicy combo! Thanks Laura!
i am a huge fan of your site … and this looks REDONK!!
but i don’t see the quantity of cheddar cheese listed in the ingredients section… how much are we talking for the tot-forming mixture?
Thank you so much, Megan!
It is 1 cup and I fixed the recipe! Hope you love these!