Tater Tot Waffle Breakfast Sandwich Recipe

There  is a lot right about a tater tot waffle, topped with bacon, eggs and cheese sauce. And of course, it is breakfast! And who doesn’t love breakfast? 

Sometimes you just gotta go with what’s on hand and this breakfast sandwich recipe was one of the best breakfast sandwiches I’ve had!

We love breakfast but usually find ourselves eating it for dinner and often when I didn’t plan ahead.

Which in my case meant scoping out the premises and seeing what there was to work with.

In this case, the freezer offered up tater tots that really needed a home. We always have eggs and if we don’t, I know I can always rely on my neighbor who raises chickens!

Bacon? Really? Who can go with out?

The cheese sauce? Well, I must admit this was an impulse purchase. I saw it at Kroger and the ingredients sounded OK so like I said…I must have been hungry that day while grocery shopping.

But yeah. I am ALWAYS hungry!

And now…about this breakfast sandwich. I love breakfast sandwiches. This one may not actually qualify because it is open faced and really couldn’t be wrapped up in a paper bunting so easily.

But for lack of creativeness at this point in the evening, I am choosing to call it a breakfast sandwich with a tater tot waffle substituting for bread.

I hope no one fights me on this.

After all, I’d do just about anything to get my almost daily fix of potatoes.

And you can see I’ve made many versions of this tater tot waffle sandwich!

How do you make a tater tot waffle?

Since every waffle iron is different, I’ll tell you how mine are made. My very old Salton waffle iron is square and makes two waffle at a time. It takes me 15 tater tots per waffle.

Merely preheat the waffle iron, put in the defrosted tater tots, shut the lid, and let them cook for about two to three minutes.

This makes them stick to each other and you end up with a nice crispy potato waffle. Yes, you can do this with defrosted hash browns, too!

Don’t have a waffle iron? Well, you should, but if you don’t I suppose you could bake them as usual though they may not have the super crunchy golden crust that is created by none other than the waffle iron.

This was a good discovery. These tater tot waffles really are quite scrumptious.

In fact, I could have made this a true sandwich with a tater tot waffle on the top and bottom, but I restrained myself.

After all, this is the year of the wedding diet and so far I’ve lost three pounds.

It wasn’t easy, but I am trying to focus on said wedding and not the diet!

So with that being said, I leave the option up to you whether this breakfast sandwich should be open faced or not.

I fried the bacon crisp and because we were so hungry, I cooked it in the microwave which makes like zero mess. 

 

And that cheese sauce is of the queso version. I did doctor it up, by adding in some pickled jalapeno pepper juice. It really was great drizzled on this breakfast/dinner sandwich.

Eggs? Well by now you should know that Manservant always like his fried and Mrs. Manservant prefers scrambled. Take your pick!

Please don’t forget the pickled jalapenos on the top. These are truly a necessity!

And now that I’ve hopefully quenched your appetite, it’s time to deliver the recipe. 

Ready in about 20 minutes, this might be the best breakfast sandwich I’ve ever had!

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