Best Buffalo Chicken Tater Tots (Loaded Totchos Recipe) (2024)

Our family favorite buffalo chicken tater tots recipe! Called totchos (for tater tot nachos), these cheesy potatoes are yummy appetizers for parties, easy football watching food / game day food, or even a quick dinner. Also, these buffalo chicken loaded tater tots are just as good with shredded chicken or without chicken for vegetarian buffalo tots! (We like this potato recipe both ways!)

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Loaded Buffalo Chicken Tater Tots Nachos

We make these as buffalo-ranch tater tots because that’s how my daughter likes them, but you can definitely leave off the ranch dressing. These buffalo chicken totchos are easy to play around with and add toppings to your liking without worrying about exact measurements.

Easy Oven-Baked Buffalo Tater Tots Ingredients

Frozen tater tots (baked to crispy tater tots)
Shredded chicken, optional
Buffalo wing sauce (of choice)
Shredded cheddar cheese or Mexican cheese blend
Blue cheese crumbles
Green onions
Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo Ranch Seasoning, optional
Hidden Valley Ranch Spicy Secret Sauce dressing, optional
Ranch dressing, for drizzle and/or serving side
Blue cheese dressing, for drizzle and/or serving side

RECIPE NOTE: Get the printable buffalo chicken tater tots recipe card below.

How To Make Buffalo Chicken Tots Step-By-Step Tips

Chicken Buffalo Tater Tots vs No Meant Buffalo Tater Tots

We’ve made this recipe with leftover shredded chicken, cubed chicken, and as no meat nachos, and it’s good all those ways.

If you’re making it with chicken, toss the cooked chicken in the buffalo sauce before adding it to the baked tater tots. (You can use any of your favorite buffalo sauces.)

If you’re making this recipe without chicken, toss the tater tots in the buffalo sauce once you have baked the tots until they’re crispy (not before baking or while the tater tots are frozen still). Then, return them to the oven to bake another 5-7 minutes.

Make Crispy Tater Tots

Cooking your tater tots until crispy will make all the difference with this recipe.

Follow the package directions for baking the tater tots and then add a few more minutes to get tater tots crisp.

Crispy tater tots will help hold the toppings without making the potatoes soggy.

Buffalo Tater Tots Toppings

I’ve listed how we usually make these buffalo tater tots, but you can top these with so many different things and they’re still so good. Don’t be afraid to play around with the recipe.

Buffalo Chicken Tater Tots Printable Recipe Card

If you like Buffalo Wild Wings chicken tots, you’ll love these.

Adjust the heat level with your buffalo sauce. If you like spicy, use a spicy wing sauce!

This is one of those super easy appetizer recipes for the big game party, football season recipes, or party foods. They give you a perfect buffalo chicken wings taste with just a few simple ingredients.

Buffalo Chicken Tater Tots

This loaded totchos recipe can be made with buffalo chicken or without for vegetarian totchos. Also, this recipe is great if you have leftover chicken!

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Course: Appetizers

Ingredients

32 ounce bag frozen tater tots
2 cups cooked shredded chicken optional
2/3 cup buffalo wing sauce of choice, or more, as needed
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese or Mexican cheese blend
4 ounces blue cheese crumbles
1/2 cup chopped green onions
Frank's Red Hot Buffalo Ranch Seasoning to taste, optional
Hidden Valley Ranch Spicy Secret Sauce dressing optional
Ranch dressing for drizzle and/or serving side
Blue cheese dressing for drizzle and/or serving side

Instructions

Bake tater tots on a baking sheet according to package directions, around 30 minutes or until crispy.*
While tater tots are baking, place shredded chicken in a bowl and add in buffalo wing sauce. Stir until chicken is completely covered in sauce. Set aside. You can add more or less buffalo wing sauce / hot sauce based on personal preference. SEE NOTE BELOW IF NOT USING CHICKEN.**
Remove crispy tater tots from oven. Sprinkle Frank's Red Hot Buffalo Dry Ranch Seasoning lightly over the tater tots.
Add the shredded cheese evenly over the tater tots.
Place tater tots back into oven and heat just until cheese is melted, 3-5 minutes.
After cheese is melted on tater tots, remove from oven and add a layer of the buffalo sauced chicken evenly over the tater tots.
Top with crumbled blue cheese, chopped green onions, a drizzle of ranch dressing (optional), and a drizzle of Hidden Valley Ranch Spicy Secret Sauce dressing (optional).
Serve immediately with a side of ranch dressing dipping sauce and/or blue cheese dressing dipping sauce.
Store leftover tater tots in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.

Notes

*IMPORTANT: Baking the tater tots crispy is important in Step 1. Baking crisp tater tots will help them hold up to all the toppings and not get soggy!

**If you're not using shredded chicken, toss the crispy baked tater tots in the wing sauce once they come out of the oven. Then, return them to the oven and bake for an additional 5-7 minutes before moving on to Step 3.

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AFTER LOADED TATOR TOTS, TRY MORE EASY APPETIZER IDEAS: Easy Game Day Dips and Party Appetizers

I hope you enjoy this buffalo chicken tater tots recipe as much as we do in my family!