Description
If you didn’t think sliders could get any smaller–or cuter–then you haven’t tried swapping coin-shaped tots for buns! This dish is one of the times where it tastes as good as it looks.
Ingredients
- 32 frozen potato rounds (such as Ore-Ida® Crispy Crowns®)
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 8 ounces ground beef (85% lean)
- ¼ pinch kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 4 slices American cheese
- 1 tablespoon ketchup, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon mustard, or to taste
- 16 pickled gherkins, drained
- 16 toothpicks
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
- Toss tots with oil on a 10×15-inch baking pan
- then spread into a single layer.
- Bake in the preheated oven
- turning once halfway through
- until browned and crisp
- 15 to 18 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- put ground beef on a sheet of waxed paper. Top with another sheet and press beef into a 4×6-inch rectangle. Remove top sheet. Sprinkle beef with salt and pepper
- then cut into sixteen 1×1 1/2-inch rectangles.
- Break each cheese slice into quarters; fold quarters over to make 16 pieces of double-layered cheese.
- Cook beef in a large skillet over medium heat until browned on one side
- about 3 minutes. Turn burgers over
- top with cheese; cook
- covered
- until beef is no longer pink in centers and cheese has melted
- about 3 minutes.
- Top 1 tot with a cheeseburger
- ketchup
- mustard
- pickle
- and another tot; spear stack with a toothpick. Repeat with remaining ingredients.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 35 mins
Servings: 16