Totchos – Tater Tot Nachos
Totchos are the tater tot version of nachos with all your favorite taco toppings like ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese. If you love nachos, these totchos aka tater tot nachos are about to be a new favorite meal. Sometimes I am just craving something to find I don’t have all the ingredients. Hence the creation of totchos.
I could pretend I don’t crave things like nachos, but some days all I can think about is what I am going to eat for supper. And days I have a craving for nachos it is hard to determine if it is the nachos or the margaritas I am craving more. Regardless, they are both are welcome items to the end of the day.
Totchos Ingredients
Back to the birth of totchos. I have seen them on a few menus. And when my tortilla chips were found to be stale I decided to try this tater tot version of my beloved nachos. And low and behold a new 30-minute meal. And one any Mexican food lover will enjoy. Here is what you would need to make a good taco flavored totchos.
- Tater Tots
- Taco Meat – Ground beef, shredded chicken, or steak strips
- Shredded Lettuce
- Cheese – Shredded cheese or queso
- Sour Cream
- Optional toppings – Tomatoes, onions, black olives, peppers, jalapenos, avocado, guacamole
How to make Totchos
Get your tater tots baking as soon as possible. Or if you have an air fryer, here is how you can air fry your tater tots. The tater tots are the hardest and longest part of the whole meal. Which makes this recipe cinch. If baking tots is the hardest part, anyone can make these. The air fryer makes the perfect tater tots, so since getting the air fryer, these totchos have gotten way easier and way crispier.
While the tots are baking, brown a pound of ground beef, pork, or chicken. Also, be working on chopping your favorite nacho toppings. Once the tater tots are cooked and crispy on the outside, remove them from the oven and put on a large platter. Cover the tater tots with cheese. Colby Jack, Mexican blend, Cheddar. Whatever cheese you have. Don’t get too hung up. The cheese you like is the cheese you should use.
Put the platter in the oven that is still warm to get the cheese melted. I had turned off the oven and the cheese still melted quickly.
Now load up the cheese-covered nachos. The ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes. Then pile on some guacamole and sour cream. And if you are cheese freak, go ahead, add some more. You know you want too. Now, shake up a margarita and pile some on your plate before your kids notice you made their tater tots into nachos. Because you know your kids are about to eat them all.
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Ingredients
- 1 -32 ounce bag of tater tots
- 1 pound of ground beef pork or chicken
- 2 cups shredded cheese
- Toppings such as shredded lettuce diced onions, chopped tomatoes, black olives. jalapeno, banana peppers
- 1 cup of guacamole
- 1/2 cup of sour cream
Instructions
- Bake tater tots according to package instructions.
- Brown ground beef and drain any excess grease. While meat is browning, chop toppings.
- When tater tots are fully cooked and crisp, remove from oven, turn off oven. Place tater tots on a large platter and top with shredded cheese till covered. Place back in the oven till cheese is melted.
- Top cheese tots with browned meat and toppings of your choice.
- Top with guacamole. Put sour cream in a small baggy, cut one of the bottom corners off and squeeze sour cream through the whole to spread all over the top of the totchos. Sprinkle with more cheese, if you would like.
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