Sweet Potato Bacon Tots
 
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Dana:
Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
  • Ingredients
  • 1 large sweet potato
  • 5 strips of crispy bacon, chopped
  • Up to 1 tsp garlic sea salt (to taste)
  • ½ tsp onion powder
  • ½ tsp ground black pepper
  • ½ cup (80g) potato starch or cassava flour
  • Avocado oil or light olive oil for frying
Awesome sauce, optional, for dipping
  • ¼ cup Ketchup (homemade or high-quality store bought)
  • ¼ cup mayonnaise (homemade or store bought)
  • 1-2 Tbsp yellow mustard
  • Optional: 1 Tbsp maple sugar
Directions
  1. Boil the sweet potato submerged in water for about 10 minutes. Remove the sweet potato from the boiling water and set aside to cool for a few minutes.
  2. While the potato is cooling, make the Awesome sauce: simply mix all ingredients together and stir to combine well.
  3. Once cool enough to handle, peel or slice the skin off. Grate the sweet potato, using a hand grater, mandolin or food processor.
  4. Once the sweet potato is grated, use a hand towel or a few paper towels to squeeze out the excess water from the potato. This step is important, as you do not want to have soggy tots!
  5. Add the other ingredients (minus the oil and sauce) to the grated sweet potato in a mixing bowl and combine by hand. Preheat oil for frying in a large skillet over medium/high heat; it does not need to be enough oil for deep frying, but it should be enough to generously cover the bottom of the skillet.
  6. While the cooking oil heats, begin shaping your tots. Roll about a tablespoon (15g) of the dough into a ball, and then elongate it and flatten the ends to give it that distinctive tot shape. (From Dana: don’t make them too big, or the middle won’t cook through!)
  7. Fry the tots, rolling them around on all sides to make sure they crisp up. Once all sides are cooked, around 5 minutes or more, use a slotted spoon or skimmer to remove the tots and transfer them to a towel-lined plate to cool slightly. Serve alone or with awesome sauce!
Notes
Notes: For little hands : allow your child to help shape the tots. It’s okay if they are not shaped perfectly as they will fry deliciously regardless. Older kids can help fry the tots while supervised.
Recipe by Dana Monsees Nutrition at https://www.realfoodwithdana.com/sweet-potato-bacon-tots-the-paleo-kids-cookbook-review/