Featured comment I followed the recipe exactly and it was delicious and flavorful. I sweet potato oven cubes the instructions easy to follow. It’s called a Southwest Sweet Potato Tater Tot Hotdish.
This is everything we love about Tex-Mex food meeting up with our meatless goals and taking the shape and form of a beloved comfort food of Minnesota winter: the tater tot hotdish. This sweet potato tater tot hotdish is a spicy twist on the original – loaded with peppers, corn, black beans, homemade queso sauce, and tots! I know I know I KNOW, but for surely you need ketchup if you want to eat your tater tot hotdish like a true midwesterner. Tater tot hotdish is one of those foods that actually so strange and borderline gross that somewhere along the way it becomes, in fact, really really good. I do not know how this works, but I embrace it.
We’re swapping the ground beef for meaty portabella mushrooms, and trading peas and carrots for the spicy crunch of poblanos and bell peppers and corn. The gravy is getting replaced by a pepperjacky-queso-esque situation that is every bit as magical as you might image, and those sweet potato tots? Just the right amount of salty-sweetness to offset the heat. Important things to consider: Will you swish Tabasco over the top? Decorate with colorful herbs and fresh jalapeños? These things that are up to you, my friend. Lodge cast iron for all our heavy-duty, stovetop-to-oven recipes.
Now might be a good time to mention that these make EXCELLENT Christmas gifts for the foodies in your life. It also is worth mentioning that the true cast iron star here is the standard 10. I’ve found my stride with it, I am totally hooked. For people who are trying to clean-and-green their home life a little bit, this is an amazing natural alternative to nonstick. Rub with an oil-soaked paper towel. Natural nonstick and affordable high quality cookware is WITHIN REACH for the normals!
And so is a sweet potato tater tot hotdish that will make you win at life. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Heat the butter over medium high heat in a 10. Add the spices and stir to mix. Add the flour and stir to coat until everything gets sticky. Add the milk slowly, stirring after each addition, until you get a smooth mixture.
