TATER TOTS RECIPE

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We love French fries, but for an American food variation on the potato theme, one beloved at Sonic drive-ins and school cafeterias everywhere, consider the Tater Tot.

Notice it often has the registered trademark -- these commercial hash brown cylinders are indeed proprietary to the Ore-Ida company. If you'd been one of the Grigg brothers who founded Ore-Ida, you'd have wanted to come up with something to do with leftover slivers of cut-up potatoes, too. They added some flour and seasoning and shaped the mash into tiny tots and put them on the market in 1956. A little more than 50 years later, America is eating about 32 million kilos of these taters annually.

Basic homemade tater tot recipe that is crispy on the outside, light and delicate on the inside. Add bacon, cheese, onion, chives, or jalapenos for variety. (2 tbs total)

Ingredients

2 pounds potatoes

1/2 tablespoon flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

Pinch of pepper

2 tablespoons finely chopped onions

Oil for frying (I prefer peanut oil)

Instructions

Cut the potatoes in fourths and parboil them in a generous amount of water to cover.

Allow to cool, at least to the point you can handle them.

Grate them on the big holes of your grater.

Gently place them in a bowl.

Add the flour, salt, pepper, and onion and mix gently.

Let stand for about 5 minutes.

Heat the oil up to 355-360F

Use 1 1/2 teaspoons potato mixture for each tot.

Shape the potato mixture gently until it is in the shape of a tater tot.

Fry, a few at a time, in the hot oil just until they are golden brown.

Drain on absorbent paper.