Homemade Baked Sweet Potato Tots
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These baked sweet potato tots are packed with vitamins A and C, filled with fiber and fat free, they’re a healthy, fun twist on traditional tater tots!
What do you serve with a super healthy Sweet Potato Quinoa Burger that will compliment the burger without ruining its health benefits? Homemade, gluten-free, baked sweet potato tots, of course!
A large serving of tater tots at a fast food chain packs:
- 580 calories
- 31 grams fat
- 1450 mg sodium
- No fiber
- No vitamins
An equivalent serving of these delicious Sweet Potato Tots has:
- 212 calories
- ZERO grams fat
- 434 mg sodium
- 6 grams fiber
- 689% vitamin a
- 47% vitamin c
Simply said, this is one starchy side dish you can feel good about eating!
Baked Sweet Potato Tots Ingredients
- 1 lb sweet potatoes
- 1/4 cup brown rice flour
- 1 tsp kosher salt
Baked Sweet Potato Tots Instructions
Begin by boiling a large pot of water. Add the whole potatoes to the water with skins on. Boil for 20 minutes. Remove from the water and allow to cool.
Once cool enough to handle, shred the potatoes using a box grater.
*As you begin shredding the potatoes the skins will peel off. Snack on them while you prepare the tots or simply discard them.
Add the grated sweet potatoes to a large bowl with the flour and salt. Combine well.
Now we get to my favorite part, putting the tots together. Actually my favorite part is eating them, but this part ranks up there simply because I lovingly named this process the “roll and squish”.
Roll…
… and squish!
And this is how you get perfectly shaped tater tots!
Place them on a baking sheet and into a 375°F oven.
Bake for 30 minutes or until crisp on the outside.
Now it’s time to dig in!
Homemade Baked Sweet Potato Tots
Ingredients
- 1 lb sweet potatoes, skins on
- 1/4 cup brown rice flour
- 1 tsp kosher salt
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to boil.
- Add the potatoes to the water and boil for 20 minutes.
- Remove from the water and allow to cool.
- Once cool enough to handle, peel the potatoes.
- Shred the peeled potatoes with a box grater.
- Add the grated sweet potatoes to a large bowl with the flour and salt. Combine well.
- Roll and squish the potatoes into tot shapes.
- Place them on a baking sheet and into a 375°F oven for 30 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
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35 Comments on “Homemade Baked Sweet Potato Tots”
Hi. Can you make the mixture a day ahead and store in the fridge overnight before baking the next day?
Hi Kara, yes, you can definitely do that! Just make sure the mixture is tightly covered or sealed in a plastic bag so that the mixture doesn’t dry out.
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Hahaha it’s a stack of these veggie burgers 🙂
Can white sweet potatoes replace regular sweet potatoes?
Hi Mr M, I haven’t tried that, but I couldn’t see why not!
Lots of comments (which is great for you, but i dont eant to scan 5 pages haha!)
We cannot do rice flour due to our allergies…. our safe flours are buckwheat and almond… may i use these instead?
Hi Rebecca, I’ve made this recipe with rice flour, gluten free flour blends and whole wheat flour without any problems, so I’m sure buckwheat and/or almond would work as well!
Can I leave out the salt?
Sure, that’s just for taste and your preference!
Not sire what I did third times a charm I guess… I did add some more flour and I used a melon baller to get the shapes because it was still a little sticky but not as bad as the first two times. New favorite recipe THANK YOU!!!!
Yay! So glad to hear that the recipe is now working for you and that it’s your new favorite recipe! Have a wonderful day!
What am I doing wrong?!? My sweet potatoes come out a sticky hard to shape mess but I try anyway and the tots taste good just don’t look like tots. And I guess I need to use cooking spray or wax paper they like to stick to the cookie sheets. But they are super yummy!!!
Hi Janet, I’m not sure, did you check out the video to see how I made them? Maybe a little more flour would help them be less sticky and messy.
If you’re using a cookie sheet versus a baking stone, cooking spray or wax paper will help them slide off easier!
I’m glad they’re still turning out super yummy 🙂
OMG thank you for posting this!!!! I was just diagnosed with PCOS and regular russets/any white potato is off the table pretty much forever. But I LOVE tater tots and I love sweet potatoes (which are okay due to their lower GI). Thank you for helping me make my food alterations not suck!
Hi Clara, I’m so glad that you can still enjoy tots on your new diet with this recipe 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing!
The tots were great. I love Cajun tots. I would love if you would mess around with that and post a Cajun tot recipe.
These look so good. Can you microwave the potatoes? Or is is better to boil them? I just want to make sure I get the right consistency. Thank you!
So easy and the sweet potato will make them so much more flavorful than regular tater tots.
Thanks so much! I totally agree! I’ll never go back to regular tater tots again 🙂
Do these freeze well?
Hi Kelsey, I have not tried freezing them personally, but I have had viewers tell me that they have frozen them, then baked them and it worked well!
These look amazing! Could you make them ahead of time and freeze them?
Hi Kristen, I’ve had people ask that before. I haven’t tried it myself, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work! Enjoy 🙂
Nice, easy recipe!
Can it be made with wholemeal or plain flour?
Thank you!
I have the same question
Hi Tim, I have not used wholemeal or plain flour but I would imagine the result would be similar because of the small amount used in the recipe. This dish is all about the sweet potato, so I’d give it a try! Let me know how it turns out 🙂
I am going to make these today!
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Awesome Linda! How did they turn out?
Very cool!
Thank you! So yummy and simple!
Like that you have used brown rice and sweet potatoes…great healthy take on tater tots:)
Thanks so much!! I try to gluten-free whenever possible!
Looks so good 🙂