Not every experienced hostess knows how to fry potatoes correctly and tasty. After all, an ideal dish should have a delicious golden crust and a soft tender center. The following are the most successful fried potato recipes.

The easiest way to fry potatoes

Ingredients: 5-6 potatoes, onions, fresh garlic to taste, a pinch of pepper, vegetable oil, salt.

  1. The potato is peeled, washed, wiped dry and cut with large straws.
  2. Sliced ​​vegetables are laid out in hot oil. Do not salt them and cover the container with a lid.
  3. Fry foods for 12-14 minutes with occasional stirring.
  4. Next, chopped onions and garlic are poured into the pan.
  5. The ingredients are cooked for another 6-7 minutes.
  6. The dish is salted, peppered.

It remains to bring it to full readiness. It will take another 3-4 minutes.

With onions in a pan

Ingredients: a pound of potatoes, 2 white onions, seasonings, salt, oil.

  1. After water procedures, it is very important to dry the peeled potatoes well. Only in this case will it be possible to cook it rosy and crispy.
  2. Potatoes are cut in long sticks, onions - in half rings. You can grind these products in any convenient way.
  3. Ideally, a frying pan with high sides is used for frying. It thoroughly warms up the oil.
  4. Next, potato sticks are sent to the pan. The first 8-9 minutes they do not need to interfere and in any way disturb.
  5. Then the whole layer of potatoes is turned over and another 10 minutes are prepared.
  6. After adding the onion, the dish remains on fire for 10-12 minutes.

Salt and seasonings are sent to the dish a couple of minutes before its full readiness.

In a slow cooker

Ingredients: a kilo of potatoes, a full glass of refined oil and 60 g of butter, 2 onions, rock salt, aromatic herbs. How to fry potatoes in a slow cooker is described in detail below.

  1. The potato is peeled and cut in thick slices.
  2. They are immediately laid out in the bowl of the “smart pan” and poured with filtered oil. At this stage, the products are salted, sprinkled to taste with any aromatic herbs.
  3. For the preparation of the dish under discussion, several device modes are suitable at once. These are “Vegetables”, “Baking” or “Frying”. In any case, the timer is set for 20-25 minutes.
  4. When the program ends and the corresponding signal sounds, you need to mix the potato slices, add half rings of onion to them and set the timer again for the same time.

Butter is added to the finished potato. Immediately after this, the dish is served hot on the table.

Legendary Odessa recipe

Ingredients: about a kilogram of potatoes (8-10 tubers), 2 large onions, table salt, 70 g of fatty butter and half a glass of refined.

  1. For starters, washed and dried potatoes are cut in equal slices. This will allow her to cook evenly in the future. The thickness of the slices should be no more than ½ cm.
  2. Sliced ​​potatoes are washed again from excess starch and dried.
  3. Onions are chopped in rings.
  4. Refined oil is well heated in a frying pan. Potato slices are laid out in it and fried with frequent stirring. When the pieces are covered with a slight blush, you can add chopped onions and butter.
  5. Next, the dish is fried for another 8-9 minutes over high heat with vigorous stirring. You do not need to cover the pan.

So that the treat does not turn out to be too fat, you can put the finished potatoes in a colander and let the excess oil drain.

Potato in a pan with a crust

Ingredients: 6-7 medium-sized potato tubers, coarse salt to taste, refined oil.

  1. First, the potatoes are washed, cut into identical sized slices of arbitrary shape. Further, it is imperative to rinse them well with running water a couple of times to get rid of excess starch and dry with a paper towel. Without this step, the finished dish certainly cannot be cooked with a crust.
  2. In a wide pan with a thick bottom, refined oil warms up well. Potatoes are laid in one layer in it. If you pour a mountain of vegetable slices, then you will also have to forget about the “crispiness” of the treats.
  3. The smaller the portion of potatoes, the more ruddy it will turn out in the end.
  4. A dish with an open lid is fried with stirring frequently.

Ready potatoes in a pan with a crust served on a hot table. It is very tasty to complement it with various piquant sauces. For example, sour cream with garlic and chopped herbs.

How to cook potatoes with meat?

Ingredients: 260 g of pork pulp, a mixture of colored ground peppers, a large white onion, 1 teaspoon of table salt, a pound of potatoes.

  1. The meat flesh is cut into thin oblong slices. If desired, you can slightly beat off the product with a special hammer. The thickness of each piece should be no more than 0.5 cm.
  2. Prepared meat is salted, pepper and fried until hot in hot oil. You need to cook it over high heat for a couple of minutes on each side.
  3. The potato is peeled, washed, dried with napkins and chopped with the same, equal straw. Next, you need to send it to the pan with pork. Together, the ingredients are cooked for another 5-6 minutes.
  4. After that, onion is poured out to them, chopped with half rings.
  5. The pan remains on fire until all its components are completely ready. If desired, in addition to onions, fresh chopped garlic can be added to the pan.
  6. Stir the dish all the time no more than 3 times. Otherwise, the contents of the pan will quickly turn into an unappetizing mass.

Ready-made fried potatoes with meat are generously sprinkled with chopped herbs and immediately served on the table.

With mushrooms

Ingredients: a pound of potatoes, 1-2 white onions, 380-420 g of any mushrooms, 4-5 garlic cloves, coarse salt, aromatic herbs.

  1. If young potatoes are used, they can be chopped directly with a thin, delicate skin. An old vegetable must be cleaned. Potatoes are chopped in arbitrary pieces, which must be washed well and dried with paper towels.
  2. The onion is peeled and chopped into a small cube. Garlic is chopped with a knife or simply passed through a press.
  3. First, onion with garlic is fried in well-heated oil. As soon as the products are lightly browned, prepared potatoes are sent to them. Together, the products are cooked for 12-14 minutes.
  4. Mushrooms are washed, finely chopped and lightly fried in a separate pan.
  5. When the potato is in a state of semi-preparedness, mushrooms are laid out to it, with salt and aromatic herbs also added.

It remains to fry potatoes with mushrooms for another 6-7 minutes without a lid.

Rustic

Ingredients: a pound of unpeeled potatoes, coarse salt, a glass of vegetable oil, a pinch of freshly ground allspice and sweet paprika.

  1. The potato is washed, after which each is cut into 4-6 parts. The peel does not peel.
  2. Marinade is made from oil, salt and seasoning. They pour potato slices.
  3. After 10-12 minutes, you can put the pickled potatoes in hot oil and fry over high heat until cooked.

Serving hot to the table with ketchup.