Who can resist rich crispy fried potatoes? Nobody! And these straw potatoes that we show in recipes are delicious and are very easy to do. In addition, when doing them at home we will get a much healthier result. We can prepare these potatoes to accompany, as an entree for many meat dishes, fish or vegetables, such as snack for chopping or as an appetizer. The main secret of this recipe is to properly cut the potatoes, since if they are not very fine we will not get is a crunchy touch that we look for so much. To get this precise cut, you can use a machine specially designed to make this type of potatoes, a mandolin or cut them by hand making very thin slices and then strips. Keep reading to learn more secrets and know how to make homemade straw potatoes.
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| Ingredients to make straw potatoes: |
| 3 potatoes 1 jet of olive oil (necessary quantity) 1 pinch of salt |
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Ingredients to make straw potatoes:
1. To make straw potatoes, leave all ingredients ready. So, peel the potatoes.
2. Wash the peeled potatoes and start cutting them. If you are going to do the straw potatoes with mandolin, you must put the special blades to make this type of cut and slide the potato carefully so as not to cut yourself.
3. If you don have mandolin or yours does not have the blades to make the strips, how to cut straw potatoes? Very simple, cut very thin slices. Then, cut the slices also very thin. In this way it will take longer, but they will be equally good and crispy.
4. Place the potatoes in a bowl with water, taáplo and leave them like this for 30 minutes. This is another secret of the straw potato recipe, since in this way the potatoes release the starch, do not cake and are more loose and crispy when cooking them. If you don have so much time, you can leave them 15 minutes.
5. Take out the potatoes and dry them with a clean cloth or with paper paper.
6. Put a pan with the olive oil over medium heat and, when the oil is hot, fry the straw potatoes in small batches so that they are done little by little and are loose and well golden.
Trick: To make the baked straw potatoes, place them on a tray lined with baking paper, bake for 10 minutes at 180 ºC, múevelas and leave them another 5-10 minutes.
7. have prepared a plate with kitchen paper to leave the potatoes as they are doing. Lead them draining so that the paper absorbs the excess oil.
8. Add salt to taste and you already have them ready to serve. Now that you know how straw potatoes are made, you can enjoy them during the appetizer or use them to make other recipes, such as a cod scrambled with straw potatoes or straw potatoes with ham and fried egg.
