Sweet Potato Tater Tots

10 years ago

So grainlady mentioned that she made them and now I am intrigued. I love sweet potatoes - rightly so since NC grows 40% of the nation's supply, the number one producer, and it is a native vegetable here having been grown by indigenous Native Americans long before anyone else hit the shores and probably eaten by dinosaurs before that! Not kidding, check it out on Wikipedia.

So to make them I might try a spaetzle press or grater with partially cooked potato dough mixed with flour for structure to make something more like shoestring sweet potatoes. Fried in peanut oil since that is another big crop here. Or, perhaps canola or what?

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grainlady_ks
10 years ago
You'll find any number of recipes and ways to make them on-line. I made a paleo recipe using coconut flour, hand-formed into tots, baked them and stored in the freezer. I gave the ones I wanted to reheat a quick spritz with coconut oil and cooked for 10-minutes in the air fryer, shaking once about half-way through.
ci_lantro
10 years ago
I love sweet potatoes, too, Nancy. But I'm a purist--baked skin on and consumed, skin and all, with just a bit of salted butter and no additional salt. I also love any leftovers eaten cold, out of hand from the refrigerator--they taste even sweeter when eaten cold.
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I had 600 row feet of beauregards last year and when they were young, I ran through with a cultivator straddling the row/hill. I pulled a lot of vines with it and worried I'd lose too many, so I quit after a few weeks to let them grow. I had less weeds than the year before, but I had a ton of tubers. Best production I ever had. Lots of bakers. Lots of multi-meal bakers. Very few spindly fingerlings at all. Besides running through with the cultivator, the only other difference was that I added a lot of fresh horse manure in March before the slips went in the ground in May. I do not know if it was the cultivation or the manure, but I plan to do both again this year. I have bad pigweed and johnsongrass infestation later in the summer when the vines fill in and I can't get in to do anything about them. I figure I gave the sweets enough help early on that they were healthier before the onslaught of the jungle. I wonder if your spacing is an issue. I space 18 to 24 inches apart. Just a good step sideways. wider spacing means larger tubers. Hill is about knee deep or so. Less once I shove in slips and firm the dirt around them. And less again once it rains on them and settles them. But still decent height and spacing.
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Cookie8
10 years ago
Guess I know what I am trying tomorrow.
annie1992
10 years ago
I love sweet potatoes too, thank you North Carolina! I've grown them in the garden a couple of times, with varying success, and eventually determined that I could buy about 10 times as many for the money I spent trying to grow them, LOL.

I like 'em all, sweet potatoes baked with butter, salt and pepper, made into latkes, sweet potato fries, gnocchi, roasted, any way except covered with marshmallows!

Never made them into "tots", though...

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nancyofnc
Original Author
10 years ago
The Ag Dept asks backyard farmers not to grow them here in NC. Because it is a big cash crop for "real" farmers they don't want us to pass on potential viruses, bacteria's, or pests. The vine leaves are very pretty (and deer food) so those of you in other states should grow them just for that reason, even if you don't get tubers.

Marshmallows do not occur naturally (fake food re corn syrup) so they never touch my sweet potatoes. I hadn't thought of them to make gnocchi. Yum.

Nancy

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