Baked Tater Pigs

Description

At the fair we ate tator pigs, sausages cooked in a whole potato with sour cream, butter and salt and pepper. Then the local vendor couldn't sell them any more. This is my adapted recipe. A definite kid pleaser!

Ingredients

• Cooked Sausage
• Tater Tots
• Saltine Crackers
• Egg
• Milk
• Vegetable Oil
• Aluminum Foil
• Paper Towels
• Pam Cooking Spray

Instructions

1. In large mixing bowl, mash tator tots
2. Add saltine crackers
3. In another bowl, wisk egg, milk and 1 tsp oil
4. Pour into tator tots and mix with hands or spoon
5. Wipe off sausage links with paper towels
6. Take a 6 x 6 piece of foil
7. Spread a little oil on the foil
8. Mound two spoonfuls of tator tot mixture
9. Place a sausage on the mound
10. Mold the tator tots around the sausage, add more for the top of sausage if needed
11. Take the foil and press around the sides and top
12. Do the same with the other sausages
13. Preheat oven 375
14. Carefully take off the foil and place on pam sprayed tray
15. Bake 20 minutes
16. Remove from oven
17. Let set 10 minutes
18. Remove from tray by spatula
19. Alternate baking method:
20. Spray pam in muffin cups
21. Mound and flatten two spponfuls tator tot mixture
22. Add one sausage broken in small pieces
23. Cover with tator tot mixture
24. Press down
25. Bake 20 minutes
26. Let set 10 minutes before removing
27. Remove from muffin pan by spatula
28. Serve with sour cream or ranch dressing