• Project description and varieties listing (features' overview)
• Catalog with pictures and variety description - Potato cultivars are linked to specific recipes, like this one.
• Heirloom Potato Recipies Listing - all Potato Recipes are listed in alphabethical order, and offer specific cultivars suggestions, varieties that are recommended for each recipe.

As seen on Country Cook TV, making fried potato from scratch is quick and easy.

This recipe only requires three ingredients: potatoes, onions and butter, plus salt to season. To obtain crunchy fries you need to cook the onions and potatoes separately. Country Cook suggests to dice the potatoes and pre-cook them in a microwave oven for 6 minutes on high with 2 table spoon of butter, while the onions glaze in the pan.

For your choice of potato you want a variety that holds the shape (waxy, not starchy), unlike French Fries that are usually made with starchy potatoes (Russet).

If you don't have a microwave oven, parboil the potatoes for about 10 minutes with the jackets (not peeled). Remove the pot from the stove, drain water and cool off the spuds with cold water. You can keep the undercooked potatoes in the refrigerator for at least a week, if you want to cook more spuds and use them over several days. [this method is a little more work, but requires less fat :O)]

You can peel the spuds or use them with the skins. I prefer to use them with the skins because I believe in the additional nutritional value.

When ready to cook, take one / two spuds per person, dice them with a knife. Add a pinch of salt.

Pre-heat a non-stick pan on the stove on medium heat, melt a table spoon of butter and layer the potato cubes in the pan for 5 minutes. Don't touch them for 5 minutes if you want them to turn brown and crunchy. After 5 minutes turn them and let them fry for an other 5 minutes, then add the onions.

This fast potato recipe takes about the same time as making an egg omelette - a great breakfast tradition.

Similar recipes to compare:

• American Fries
• Crisp Roasted Potatoes
• Patate Mpacchiuse (Southern Italian style)
• Rösti

Waxy tubers, like Laram Ajawiri, Red Warba, Yellow Finn, Yukon Gold.

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