Are you searching for a crispy, golden, and tasty side dish for your dinner tonight? See how these fried potatoes and onions can help!
Potatoes and onions? It may sound like a simple idea, but it is a classic combination of function and flavour that will please your family whenever it is served. These crispy fried potatoes and onions can make your plate look warm and inviting and can help to clean up any leftover sauce on your plate.
BEST FRIED POTATOES AND ONIONS
Why do I think that this is the best fried potatoes and onions recipe? Firstly, it is because how simple it is! There are only a few directions to follow to create these golden beauties.
Another reason why this easy side dish is a staple in my meal rotation is how well it compliments other food. They work well with just about every protein and are tasty with a wide range of vegetables.
WHAT TO SERVE WITH FRIED POTATOES AND ONIONS?
This smashing side dish can be served just about any time of the day. For breakfast, they can be served alongside a tasty breakfast egg muffins and bacon, a few links of sausages and baked beans, or take it on-the-go with some fresh fruit and hardboiled eggs.
For lunch, these homemade fried potatoes and onions could replace the French fries on the side of a burger or hot dogs on the grill. They would also make a tasty side dish with a sandwich and veggie sticks.
This simple potato recipe would add some pizzaz to your family’s plates for dinner. Proteins favourites such as beef, chicken, or pork chops would love the addition of these golden chips beside them for a meal. These crispy side dish would also complete a fabulous fish ‘n’ chips dish.
RECIPE TIP: SOAK YOUR POTATOES BEFORE FRYING
One of the instructions for this recipe asks you to soak the potato slices before frying them. Why is it important to perform this task? After making this dish many times, I have found that potatoes that had been soaked before being fried ended up being crispier then if this step was skipped. The reason behind this is that the starch found in potatoes prevents a good crisp from forming.
Fried potatoes and onions recipe
I would love to hear what you would make with this skillet fried potatoes and onions recipe! Leave a comment below with a meal you would want to put together!
Ingredients
- 500 grams potatoes (about 6 new potatoes)
- 3 tablespoons Vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons Butter
- 1/2 onion
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon Paprika
How to make fried potatoes and onions
Gather all the ingredients. Peel the potatoes and the onions, then cut the onions into thin rings and the potatoes into thin circles.
Soak the potatoes for 10 minutes in salted water. After, drain the water, dry the potatoes with a paper towel.
Heat a frying the pan and melt the butter and add the vegetable oil and potatoes with onions.
Fry in potatoes and onions until crispy and remove from pan and put them on a paper towel to remove excess oil.
When serving this side dish, sprinkle with paprika, pepper and salt.
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Fried Potatoes and Onions
Equipment
- 1 Frying pan
- 1 Bowl
- Paper towel
- 1 Pairing knife
Ingredients
- 500 grams Potatoes About 6 new potatoes
- 3 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1/2 Onion
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Ground black pepper
- 1 tbsp Paprika
Instructions
- Gather all the ingredients. Peel the potatoes and the onions, then cut the onions into thin rings and the potatoes into thin circles.
- In a bowl, soak the potatoes for 10 minutes in salted water. After, drain the water, dry the potatoes with a paper towel.
- Heat a frying the pan and melt the butter and add the vegetable oil and potatoes with onions.
- Fry in potatoes and onions until crispy and remove from pan.
- Put them on a paper towel to remove excess oil.
- When serving this side dish, sprinkle with paprika, pepper and salt.
These Fried Potatoes and Onions look delicious. I will have to try this recipe.
So good for a cold winter night.
This looks like such a tasty dish.
I woukd love to try these. Thanks for sharing!
These looks so good and perfect for the month of March. The kids would love to help out in the kitchen to make these they look so good.
This is going to be tonight’s side dish to go with our meatloaf! Looks yummy.
Let me know how you liked them!
I would like to try fried potatoes and onions with black bean burgers
Yummy!
This would be great to have with scrambled eggs at breakfast.
This looks so yummy! Thank you for the tip on soaking the potatoes before frying to make them crispier.
My pleasure! Hope you like the recipe!