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I don't have small children and I wasn't craving tater tots. However I belong to a AIP Support group on Facebook and I saw a post about tater tots. I was thinking how can I do this and make them good. AIP is pretty strict and with no eggs and no traditional flour, I was a little worried. To be honest it took me several batches to get this down. They turned out so good at the end that they entire family gobbled them up. So then I knew I had a good recipe and could share it with confidence. These crunchy, salty bad boys were just what the doctor ordered! Yummm-O!!
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup pealed and shredded white or orange sweet potato
2 tbs coconut-avocado oil or lard(Order Here)
2 tbs cassava flour (you can use arrowroot or tapioca) (Order Here)
salt
oil for pan prying the tots
2 tbs coconut-avocado oil or lard(Order Here)
2 tbs cassava flour (you can use arrowroot or tapioca) (Order Here)
salt
oil for pan prying the tots
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Directions
First peel and grate your white sweet potato. Place it on a plate and salt it. The salt helps draw moisture out of the potato. Wait about 5 min. Use a paper towel and squeeze the grated sweet potato between it, you are trying to remove as much liquid as possible. Now place the plate of shredded sweet potato in the microwave for 3 min. This gets the potato slightly mushy with still retaining some of the shredded texture. Remove from the microwave and set aside.
Now in a small dish place 2 tbs of coconut-avocado oil or lard. Now put in the 2 tbs of cassava flour. mix well with a whisk or fork. This will act as your binder and help solidify the tots.
Now add the mixture to the shredded sweet potatoes and fully incorporate. Now you will begin forming up your tots. Take a bout 1 tbs of tots mixture in your hand. Work it a little like a hamburger patty. Form it into a tot and set it on a clean plate. (You can always just form it into little discs and so you only have to fry two sides, rather than a four sided tot.) Do this with the rest of the tots mixture.
Now heat up a pan with some oil for pan frying. You want to have the base of the pan full of warm oil. You want your heat high enough to sizzle when you place a tot in but low enough so your pan is not smoking. On my large burner this is below med. Adjust your temp as needed. After each tot is golden brown on all sides, move it over to a cooling rack.
I served mine with: http://www.feedingyourselfwell.com/recipes/glorious-creamy-garlic-white-sauce
Now in a small dish place 2 tbs of coconut-avocado oil or lard. Now put in the 2 tbs of cassava flour. mix well with a whisk or fork. This will act as your binder and help solidify the tots.
Now add the mixture to the shredded sweet potatoes and fully incorporate. Now you will begin forming up your tots. Take a bout 1 tbs of tots mixture in your hand. Work it a little like a hamburger patty. Form it into a tot and set it on a clean plate. (You can always just form it into little discs and so you only have to fry two sides, rather than a four sided tot.) Do this with the rest of the tots mixture.
Now heat up a pan with some oil for pan frying. You want to have the base of the pan full of warm oil. You want your heat high enough to sizzle when you place a tot in but low enough so your pan is not smoking. On my large burner this is below med. Adjust your temp as needed. After each tot is golden brown on all sides, move it over to a cooling rack.
I served mine with: http://www.feedingyourselfwell.com/recipes/glorious-creamy-garlic-white-sauce
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