Who can resist some delicious crispy fries? Nobody! And it is that these straw potatoes that we show are delicious and are very easy to make. In addition, by making them at home we will achieve a much healthier result.
We can prepare these potatoes to accompany, as a starter for many meat, fish or vegetable dishes, as a snack or as an appetizer. The main secret of this recipe is to cut the potatoes properly, because if they are not very thin we will not get the crunchy touch that we are looking for so much. To achieve this precise cut, you can use a machine specially designed to make this type of potatoes, a mandoline or cut them by hand, making very thin slices and then strips. Read on for more secrets and how to make homemade straw potatoes.
Ingredients to make Straw Potatoes:
- 3 potatoes
- 1 dash of olive oil (as needed)
- 1 pinch of salt
How to make Straw Potatoes:
To make the straw potatoes, get all the ingredients ready. So, peel the potatoes. Wash the peeled potatoes and start cutting them. If you are going to make the straw potatoes with a mandolin, you must put the special blades to make this type of cut and slide the potato carefully so as not to cut yourself.
If you don’t have a mandoline or yours doesn’t have the blades to make the strips, how do you cut straw potatoes? Very simple, cuts very thin slices. Then cut the slices into very thin strips. This way it will take longer, but they will be just as good and crispy.
Place the potatoes in a bowl with water, cover and leave them like that for 30 minutes. This is another of the secrets of the straw potato recipe, since in this way the potatoes release the starch, they do not clump together and are looser and crispier when cooked. If you don’t have that much time, you can leave them for 15 minutes. Remove the potatoes and dry them with a clean cloth or kitchen paper.
Put a frying pan with the olive oil over medium heat and, when the oil is hot, fry the straw potatoes in small batches so that they cook little by little and are loose and well browned.
Trick: To make the straw potatoes in the oven, place them on a tray lined with baking paper, bake for 10 minutes at 180ºC, move them and leave them for another 5-10 minutes.
Have a plate with kitchen paper ready to leave the potatoes there as they are made. Leave them draining so that the paper absorbs the excess oil.
Add salt to taste and you have them ready to serve. Now that you know how straw potatoes are made, you can enjoy them as an aperitif or use them to make other recipes, such as scrambled cod with straw potatoes or straw potatoes with ham and fried egg.
