Blackstone Buffalo Chicken Loaded Tots
Blackstone Buffalo Chicken Loaded Tots is a fun appetizer or game day recipe for the griddle or flat top grill, can't go wrong with loaded tots!
Equipment
- Blackstone Griddle
- Flat Top Grill/ Griddle
Ingredients
- cooking oil of choice
- 1 32 ounce bag frozen tater tots
- 1 onion diced
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 4 to 5 cloves garlic minced
- kosher salt, pepper
- 1 1/4 cups buffalo wing sauce (plus more to drizzle over top if desired)
- 2 cups shredded cheese of choice (I used Mexican blend)
- Optional toppings: ranch dressing, chives, bacon bits
Instructions
- Preheat the griddle to medium heat for a few minutes. Add some cooking oil and frozen tots on one side of the griddle, flipping with hibachi spatulas a few times. After 5 minutes add more oil to the empty side of the griddle and the diced onion.
- Cook the onion 2 to 3 minutes, mixing a few times with hibachi spatulas. And just keep turning and flipping the tots a few times.
- Add the ground chicken, garlic, kosher salt, and pepper with the onions. Cook 4 to 5 minutes, breaking apart the chicken and mixing with hibachi spatulas. Keep turning the tots as well, but keeping them separate from the chicken.
- Add the buffalo sauce to the chicken, cook another 2 to 3 minutes and mixing together with the chicken with hibachi spatulas.
- Once the tots are cooked and crisp, use the spatulas to put the buffalo chicken over the tots. Add the cheese over top as well and any additional toppings such as more buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, chives, and/or bacon bits.Note: Use a large melting dome or 9x13 foil pan to place over the loaded tots to speed up the cheese melting.
- Turn the griddle off once the cheese is melted and either transfer to a tray or let everyone serve themselves from the griddle (using caution as the griddle will remain hot for several minutes).