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Ready for an easy appetizer or meal that the whole family will love?? Check out these Amazing Air Fryer Pizza Tots for a quick different idea! All your favorite pizza toppings melted over puffy crispy tator tots, yes please!

Mike and I went out to eat by ourselves a few weeks ago for the first time since our daughter was born 2.5 years ago. Well we tried a bunch of crazy foods and one of them was Pizza Tots! I knew I had to make these Amazing Air Fryer Pizza Tots for us at home.

Close up of pizza tots

We keep these pizza tots simple with just sauce, cheese, and pepperoni but go ahead and load them up with your favorite toppings! For these loaded tots, we used our Ninja Digital Air Fryer Oven, but have made them in our Ninja Foodi, too. So, whatever Air Fryer you have will work, just the times may vary a little. And OF COURSE you can bake them, too!

We love our Air Fryer, it cooks things super fast and they have multiple settings! If you are looking for different Air Fryer recipes make sure to check out one of my most popular posts, Air Fryer Jalapeno Popper Stuffed Chicken or my Air Fryer Parmesan Ranch Chicken Tenders!

What you need for these Air Fryer Pizza Tots:

How to make these Amazing Air Fryer Pizza Tots

First cook a layer of tator tots on your Air Fryer basket/pan and Air Fry for about 10 minutes at 400 degrees. Rotating them halfway.

Then pull them out and top with sauce, cheese, pepperoni and Air Fry for another five minutes until cheese is melted to your liking.

tator tots loaded with sauce, cheese, pepperoni on air fryer basket

We like to have chopped basil on top, but you can drizzle ranch or hot sauce or whatever you like! Serve hot and enjoy friends!! ?

Air Fryer Pizza Tots
air fryer pizza tots with text

Amazing Air Fryer Pizza Tots

These loaded tator tots are topped with all of your favorite pizza toppings.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Course Appetizer, Main Course, Snack
Servings 4 serving

Equipment

  • Air Fryer or Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 16 oz frozen tator tots (about 1/2 bag)
  • 1 cup marinara/pizza sauce
  • 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella
  • mini or regular pepperoni or toppings of choice
  • Fresh basil chopped (optional)

Instructions
 

  • Lay out tator tots on Air Fryer basket/pan and Air Fry fir 10 minutes at 400 degrees (rotating half way through)
  • Once tator tots are hot and browned, add the sauce, cheese, and pepperoni.
  • Place back in Air Fryer for another 5 minutes.
  • Top with chopped basil, ranch, hot sauce, for garnish!

Notes

If using the oven,  follow package cooking instructions for tator tots then add topping and broil for a few minutes until cheese is melted.
feeding a larger crowd? Use the whole 32 oz bag and double recipe! 
Keyword air fryer, appetizers, pizza, Tator tots

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