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- Today on The Edgy Veg I'm gonna show you how
to level up tater tots three delicious ways.
So, The Level Up is a series on my channel where
I take foods that you vote for and I level them up
three different ways starting with level one,
being kind of basic, you know easy to make
and level three being super over the top, decadent, rich,
depending on the food that it is.
Tater tots are I think a childhood favorite for most of us
and when I saw a couple of you guys comment tater tots
I was like yes I need to make that happen.
So last week I think we did burgers.
This week we're doing tater tots.
I'm gonna level them up making a bacon-wrapped tater tot,
a breakfast skillet, and then tater nachos or tater tachos.
Delicious.
Step one of level one is you want to take your bacon.
So I have the King's Cafe bacon that I always use.
I'm going to cut all the bacon in half
and then cut it in half again,
and then it has four quarters.
That's how math works.
So I'm cutting that, put that on top of this guy,
cut it again, and then these are the little pieces
that we are going to wrap around the tater tots.
She's like but my boyfriend's leaving me.
Okay so I'm going to add some coconut milk in here and
the reason, actually I'm just gonna use the rest of this.
The reason I'm doing this is because
there's no actual fat in this bacon.
Vegan bacon doesn't have a lot of fat in it.
So it can't cook in its own fat.
It can't get rendered down and cook
in its own fat like normal bacon does.
So we're going to just fake it with our coconut milk.
We're going to add brown sugar to my coconut oil.
Just give that a stir and you have this sweet, syrupy oil.
Just stick with me on this, trust me.
I would never lie to you.
I've never steered you wrong.
This will be delicious.
All right, now that we have that what's going to happen now
is we are going to take our bacon, we are going
to take our tater tot, gonna wrap our bacon
around the tater tot, secure it, voila, and then
we are going to brush it with our oil and our sugar,
and throw it onto a baking sheet, which I do not
have ready because I suck at my job, hold on.
And do that for 24 of your tater tots.
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All right, level two is a breakfast skillet,
kind of, it's like a breakfast casserole.
So I'm going to take these tater tots.
I'm gonna put them in this casserole dish.
I'm gonna top them with what is this, tofu scramble.
If you want the tofu scramble recipe it's in my cookbook.
So go buy it.
I also have a version of it on my website.
Then we're gonna to top it with some Beyond Meat sausage,
a little bit of cheese, throw that in the oven,
and then drizzle it with Hollandaise,
and then have the best brunch ever.
So I have these; they're ready to go.
We're just gonna apparently five at time put them in here.
Stick them into our, oh, okay dogs.
Who wants a potato?
Look, what's this?
Good girl.
Who need a vacuum cleaner when you have dogs.
It's pretty much like a breakfast poutine
or like loaded hash browns kind of.
Fry up some sausage.
These are the Beyond Meat sausages.
I just cut them up.
We're gonna cook them up and then
toss them on top of our breakfast skillet.
You don't need any oil for this
because they're super fatty, which is the point.
I have it on medium high heat.
I'm gonna cook these for about five minutes or so.
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Now I'm going to top it with the tofu scramble.
Just throw it on there.
Oh my god it's hot!
I'm burning my hand.
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Now the sausage, you can do this
with any of your favorite vegan sausages.
You can put vegan bacon on here if you want.
You can even put veggie ground round,
whatever protein you feel like.
I think the sausage though will be
really, really, really tasty.
My OCD is kicking in.
There must be even amounts of sausage everywhere.
Does that look even?
Now top it with cheese, whatever
vegan cheese is your favorite.
Today I'm using cheddar style.
It's also very good with gouda, or mozzarella, or Tex-Mex.
And now throw that into the oven.
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Okay now that are cheese is melted
we are going to add our Hollandaise.
Just, just go for it.
If you have any leftover Hollandaise
you can have Eggs Benedict the next day.
This need something green, chives!
We need to put chives on this.
Yes, yes we do.
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Okay for level three, for the tachos I am going to use
the same fat that's already in the pan
to brown this veggie ground round.
So I'm just gonna heat that up.
You really just want to heat it up until it's warm.
It's going in the oven so it will warm up even more
but we want to season it, so I'm
just using your ordinary organic taco seasoning
and I'm not really measuring it; I'm just gonna sprinkle
a little bit on top, add a little bit of water
and then cook that up until it's heated through.
Ooh I can smell it already.
It smells like a fiesta in here.
While the ground round is browning I'm gonna take
the tater tots, throw them onto a pan
and then we're going to dress them just like normal nachos.
So, so get in there.
It's very basic, if you've made nachos
do the exact same thing just with tater tots.
Okay now add the veggie ground round, spread it out.
I'm just gonna add some corn,
add some cheese, and toss it into the oven.
You can also use cheese sauce.
If you have your own favorite vegan
homemade cheese sauce you can use that.
Do whatever you wanna do, these our your nachos.
I'm not gonna tell you how to live your best nacho life.
Okay let's dress these nachos.
They're hot out of the oven.
We are going to start with some pickled jalapenos.
You can use salsa as well but I just felt
like doing some chopped cherry tomatoes.
I just think that they look really
pretty than blobs of salsa.
Then I'm going to throw in the middle
a pile of sour cream and then a pile of guac
and then you can like dip your (bleep) in it.
Dip your stuff in it.
One pile of guac, a pile of sour cream
and then to garnish we are going
to add some green onions and cilantro.
A little bit there, a little bit there, voila.
Tater tachos, nailed it.
Oh my God they look so good.
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All right guys there you have it.
We have level one, two, and three of our tater tots.
We have our our bacon-wrapped candied tater tots.
We have our breakfast skillet/casserole.
And then we have our tater tachos.
Okay, let's give this one a try.
Ooh, it's so crispy.
Oh, oh wow, that is sweet and salty.
It's really good.
That tastes a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
Oh my God.
That bacon is everything, guys.
If you can get this bacon you should buy it.
Okay, let's try the breakfast here.
I wanna a little bit of everything in each bite.
Oh my God, very decadent.
I would have this as like a side to the rest
of my breakfast not as a main because it is so rich.
Oh my God, these Beyond Meat sausages are so good.
So far, two for two, how do you eat nachos?
A little bit of everything.
Three for three, they are delicious, oh my God.
Let me know on the comment section
which one is your favorite.
Let me also know which recipe you want me to level up next.
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