I've been watching a lot of cooking shows, and although most of the recipes they cook are far too "fancy" for my taste, I really liked this one!
Ingredients:
1 large sweet potato
1 cup flour
2 cups vegetable oil
salt, pepper
Directions:
1. Peel a large sweet potato while you bring a pot (with enough water to cover the potato) up to a boil. When the water is boiling, add the sweet potato and boil it for 5 minutes.
2. Remove the sweet potato from the boiling water and allow it to cool for a couple of minutes. Chop it into large cubes.
3. Pulse the sweet potato in a food processor until it you have very small (tater tot sized) chunks.
4. Dump the sweet potato bits into a bowl and stir in a cup of flour. Add salt/pepper to taste. Once the flour has been incorporated (you can no longer see any white), start shaping the mixture into tater tots. I just rolled them into balls, because who has time to worry about cylinders?
5. In a large pot (dutch oven works well), pour in enough vegetable oil to just cover your tater tots. Heat the oil on medium heat. *If you have a thermometer, you want the temperature to be about 350 degrees.
6. Fry the tater tots in batches of 5-7 until golden brown. This should take about 5 minutes. If they are cooking too fast, then adjust the heat, because the centers will not be cooked all the way.
7. Add additional salt or pepper and enjoy!
BBQ Rib recipe coming soon :)
ooh...Now I wish I'd saved one of my sweet potatoes I boiled yesterday for this. :( I'll have to go buy more. I have a recipe that my family likes (the kids ONLY eat them hot and I call them "flower tots") http://www.skinnytaste.com/2013/11/cauliflower-tots.html (I modify it slightly so I might post my modification later, but I really like them) It reminds me of this idea.
ReplyDeleteDo you pulse the sweet potato until it's the size of a whole tater tot or do you pulse until it's in bits (like the way a tater tot looks like it's made up of tiny bits of potato)? Does the flour not mix with the sweet potato and turn into a paste (with the potato being so soft)?
Last, I wonder if these could be baked...? Frying is not one of my specialties...