Loaded Tater Tot Dip — My favorite baked potato toppings, all loaded into this cheesy dip! This easy party dip is made with frozen tater tots, sour cream, meatballs, and cheese!!
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Easy, Cheesy Tater Tot Dip Recipe
The best part of a baked potato isn’t really the potato. It’s the sour cream and cheese that tops it.
This loaded tater tot dip is a bowl of everything fabulous that goes on top of baked potatoes, minus the baked potatoes.
It’s creamy, it’s cheesy, it’s happy food. White carbs, cream, and cheese tend to have that effect and my family was oohing and ahhing about it. They’re huge potato fans of any kind, from tater tots to hash browns, and they loved the warm, soft tater tots.
Perfect for parties, especially football parties, or as an easy appetizer to set out for gatherings. Or if you’re a dipaholic like me, you can just call it dinner!
Ingredients in Loaded Potato Dip
To make this tater tot dip, you’ll need:
- Frozen tater tots
- Meatballs (veggie or regular)
- Sour cream
- Shredded cheese
- All-purpose seasoning blend
- Salt and pepper
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Loaded Tater Tot Dip
To make the dip, I used tater tots instead of potatoes. I have fond memories of the stubby little tots from elementary school lunches. I ate them slathered in ketchup and decades have gone by and I’ve had very few tater tots since sixth grade. I decided to make up for lost time!
- Allow 3 cups of frozen tater tots to come to room temperature. I measure about 15 tater tots to 1 cup, so you’ll need about 45, give or take.
- Slice them in half, or place them all on a large cutting board and give the pile a rough chop.
- Place the chopped tots in a large mixing bowl, and add crumbled pre-cooked Italian sausage or meatballs.
- Add the sour cream. Stir in 1 cup of shredded cheese.
- Season the mixture with your favorite seasoning blend such as Lowry’s, Trader Joe’s 21 Salute or a Mrs. Dash and stir.
- Transfer the mixture into a sprayed 9-inch pie dish, oven-safe baking dish, or an 8- or 9-inch square pan. Top with the remaining shredded cheese and bake your until golden brown and bubbly.
What to Serve with Tater Tot Dip
Serve this comfort food extraordinaire with crackers, pita chips or pita bread, tortilla chips, dip tater tots into the tater tot dip, or just eat it with a spoon.
Puncturing the thick wall of browned cheese with a sharp cracker corner reveals a soft, creamy, rich potato-filled interior. It was so satisfying to finally bust through the cheese wall.
Make-Ahead Instructions
The tater tot dip assembly literally takes five minutes, but if you’re making it for a party and have lots to do on the day-of, you can assemble it, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate it for up to 24 hours before baking it off.
Recipe Variations
For a spin on this tater tot dip recipe, feel free to stir in a bit of diced green onion or scallions, a pinch of garlic or onion powder; add a handful of corn or black beans, a dollop of salsa, or other things you enjoy on baked potatoes.
There’s no wrong way to load up this dip! If you really load it up, you may need to extend the baking time a bit.
Recipe FAQs
Need to feed a crowd? You can double the ingredients list and bake this dip in a 9×13-inch baking pan.
Nope! You can also use pre-cooked shredded chicken, chicken nuggets, tofu, tempeh, bacon, or bacon bits.
Greek yogurt may also work, but I don’t top my baked potatoes with yogurt. I top them with sour cream, which is what I used.
I bet frozen, thawed hash browns would work instead of frozen tater tots. Make sure to buy hash browns made from shredded potatoes, not the type made of potato chunks.
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Loaded Tater Tot Dip
Ingredients
- 3 cups tater tots, about 45 whole tater tots, thawed and halved or roughly chopped
- 1 cup meatballs, pre-cooked and crumbled (can use homemade or frozen)
- 16- ounces sour cream, regular or light both work
- 2 cups shredded cheese blend, divided (any kind; Colby Jack, Monterrey Jack, cheddar, etc. all work)
- 2 teaspoons all-purpose seasoning blend, or to taste (Lowry’s, Trader Joe’s 21 Salute, Mrs. Dash, etc.)
- salt and pepper, optional and to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F and spray a 9-inch pie dish or similar oven-safe baking dish with cooking spray; set aside.
- Slice thawed tater tots in half or place a large pile on cutting board and roughly chop them; retain some size and texture and don’t chop them too small.
- Transfer tater tots to a large mixing bowl. Add the meat or protein option, sour cream, add 1 cup cheese, seasoning blend, salt, pepper, and stir to combine.
- Transfer mixture to prepared baking dish, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula. Top with remaining 1 cup cheese.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until top is bubbly and golden browned. Serve immediately with crackers, bread, pita chips or pita bread, tortilla chips, dip tater tots into it, or just eat it with a spoon.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Hi! Jw, can this recipe be frozen & eaten later?
In general dips are more of an at-the-moment type thing but you could try and see how it goes. I haven’t done it so can’t say.
I LOVE this recipe, however I had forgotten the recipe and went to look online for it. Yours is the only one that(once I saw it my memory came back) hit my recipe SPOT ON. Thanks for giving me my memory back!!
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad this lives up to your memories of the recipe and it’s spot on!
Only 2 of us and need the recipe for half of it can you help me out Please Reply Thanks Giving it q 5 ***** be cause it sounds so Yummy.
I would just halve it then and bake it in a smaller baking dish.