Sweet Chilly Crispy Potato

A tasty and crispy veggie starter…

Ingredients for Sweet Chilly Crispy Potato:

Potatoes – 2 Big

Maida (All purpose flour) – 1 Cup

Corn flour – ½ Cup

Spring Onions – 4-5 (Finely chopped)

Capsicum – 1 (Diced)

Ginger – 1 Tbsp (Finely chopped)

Garlic - 1 Tbsp (Finely chopped)

Honey – 3 Tbsp

Chilly Sauce – 1 Tsp

Soya Sauce – 2 Tbsp

Ketchup - 1 Tsp

Pepper – ¼ Tsp (freshly ground)

Ajinomoto – 1 Tsp

Green chilly - 2 (Finely chopped)

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

How to make a Sweet Chilly Crispy Potato:

Firstly, peel and dice the potatoes (long, ½ an inch thickness) as if they look like French fries. Now we double fry these potatoes – 1^st, with dry batter and 2^nd, with wet batter. This is main reason the potatoes turn out to be extra crispy and do not get soggy at least till an hour and a half from preparation.

Dry batter:

Put oil in a deep bottomed pan on medium high heat. Meanwhile in a another bowl, put ½ cup Maida, ¼ cup corn flour, 1 tsp salt & 2 Tbsp oil and mix well. Now put all the diced potatoes and coat them well.

Dust the extra flour off the potatoes and deep fry them once the oil is hot. Once the potatoes are 60-70% cooked, take them off heat and place them on a kitchen towel/tissue to get rid of the extra oil.

Wet Batter:

You can use the same oil to fry the potatoes for the second time. Let the pan be on low flame till you prepare the wet batter. Ingredients that go in for the same – ½ cup Maida, ¼ Cup corn flour, 1 Tsp salt, 2 Tbsp oil & ½ cup water. Mix well into a lump-less batter and put in the fried potatoes into it. Make sure all the potatoes are coated well before you deep fry them once again. Also make sure you get the pan on medium-high to fry the potatoes or else they tend to soak up more oil.

When you fry for the second time, the potatoes tend to stick to each other.  You can separate them and coat them again in the remaining wet batter and fry them. This way, all the potatoes will be coated well and become equally crispy. 

Final Sauce & Dish Prep of Sweet Chilly Crispy Potato:

Take a wok on medium-low heat and put in 2 Tbsp oil. Add the ginger and garlic pieces followed by capsicum and let them sauté for few seconds.  Now add spring onion, green chilly, chilly sauce, soya sauce, ketchup and mix all of them well and leave it to cook for 30 seconds. Add freshly ground pepper and ajinomoto and give it a good stir. All the ingredients can be added in accordance to your taste. Finally add 3 Tbsp honey and mix well. This helps potatoes get a good glaze. Now the last step, add the fried potatoes and stir them well in the sauce. Once all of them are perfectly glazed, take them off heat, garnish with coriander or parsley (optional) and serve hot.

I am sure you would enjoy this delicious Sweet Chilly Crispy Potato as much as I did. Cheers!

Hash Brown

A Simple & Easy Crispy Hash Brown with Mayo dip...

Ingredients for crispy Hash Brown:

Potatoes – 4 Big

Egg white – 1

All-purpose flour (Maida) – 1 Tbsp

Onion – 1 Small (shredded)

Salt & Pepper to taste

Olive oil – enough to cover the bottom of the pan

Procedure - Hash Brown:

Hash Brown Prep:

Peel the potatoes and shred them. Once done, put the entire shredded potatoes into a bowl of cold water. This will pull out the starch from the potatoes. Let it soak for 5-10 minutes. Drain the water and pour the second round of cold water. Soak for another 10 minutes. Now take a kitchen towel, place the shredded potato and squeeze out the entire starch and water from the potatoes. They should seem like dry shredded coconut after squeezing the water.

Meanwhile, put a flat bottomed non-stick pan on medium low heat. N take a bowl, put in the potatoes, egg white, maida, shredded onion, salt & pepper. Mix all of them well. Once the pan is hot, take a desirable quantity of the mixture and put it on the pan and flatten it into a thin patty. It will take approx 6-7 minutes on one side, before you flip the patty onto the other side. Let it cook for another 5-6 minutes and then take it off heat once you see the nice golden brown colour on both sides.

If you get a crispy layer on the outside and soft & smooth texture in the inside, you’ve got the perfect Hash Brown. The best pals to this would be some bacon, a bull’s eye & a yummy dip.

Mayo Dip Prep:

Mix Mayonnaise + Shredded garlic + lime juice + parsley + salt.

All the ingredients’ quantities could be used in accordance to your palette.