Fried potatoes are delicious, hearty food - and perfect when you have leftover potatoes.
Find out here how you can save a lot of time with a trick during preparation.
Fried potatoes * are a seemingly simple dish and yet so diverse.
When it comes to preparation, however, opinions differ: peel potatoes
before cooking
or after?
Do you have to pre-cook them or can you also
roast
them
raw
?
When it comes to further refinement, there are numerous variants of which ingredients you can add to your fried potatoes to create a delicious meal:
eggs, bacon, vegetables, onions
...
Fried potatoes: Boil the potatoes and let them cool
Our tip: Use
waxy potatoes
- floury
potatoes
will fall apart.
You shouldn't cook the tubers too long either: if they're too soft
, they may be more likely to fall apart
.
In addition, they are cooked through when roasting.
Let the cooked potatoes
cool down
and peel them.
It also works if you don't finish processing them until the next day.
Some chefs even claim that potatoes are easier to cut and fry after spending a night in the refrigerator.
Now the ingenious trick comes into play, which
makes
the
preparation of the fried potatoes easier and saves time
.
Also read:
These mistakes should be avoided when cooking potatoes.
Save time when preparing fried potatoes: You can use this kitchen appliance for cutting
You now have cooled, boiled potatoes ready to be fried.
But not quite: you still have
to cut
the potatoes
into slices
.
One of the time wasters when preparing fried potatoes is that you have to cut
each individual potato into slices
that are
as even as possible
.
The slices should also not be too thick, otherwise they will not get
crispy
.
This can be
remedied by a
kitchen utensil
that you normally use
to cut other ingredients
- namely an egg cutter!
You can simply
repurpose
the
egg cutter
and use it to cut the potatoes: Put the potato in, press it down once and you have even slices that are ready to be chopped in the pan and fried until crispy.
Brilliant!
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Fry the fried potatoes extra crispy: Tips and tricks for preparation
A few more tips to make your
fried potatoes
extra crispy
:
Take clarified butter: you can heat it up, but butter would burn
A perfect crispy crust succeeds in a well-burned iron pan (promotional link).
With a
coated Teflon pan,
on the other hand, you are prepared for burnt potatoes.
Fry the pre-cooked potato slices over
high heat,
first on one side and then on the other a little shorter, about
three to four minutes
each
.
The other ingredients such as
bacon and onions
should only be added shortly before the end, otherwise the potatoes will become mushy again.
(mad) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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Perfectly crispy fried potatoes in just 20 minutes: With this tip from the chef, it works.
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