Old MacDonald's Potato Box Recipes
Crunchy Potatoes Technique Ingredients This technique applies the basic French fry equation – fry, freeze, and fry again – to baby red potatoes, with delicious and fun-textured results. They can serve as a high-brow accompaniment (whereas French fries can only grace certain plates, these smashed disks are appealingly abstract enough so as to fit on the finest porcelain), or an addictively delicious serve-in-a-basket low-brow side. Directions Step 1: Roast potatoes on a bed of salt until just cooked through. Step 2: Crush potatoes with palm of hand – they should be flattened, but still in one piece. Step 3: Blanch potatoes in 300ºF oil for 5 minutes. Step 4: Hold potatoes in refrigerator or freezer until later use. Step 5: Fry potatoes at 350ºF until crispy and brown.

Old MacDonald's Potato Box Recipes

Crunchy Potatoes Technique

Ingredients

This technique applies the basic French fry equation – fry, freeze, and fry again – to baby red potatoes, with delicious and fun-textured results. They can serve as a high-brow accompaniment (whereas French fries can only grace certain plates, these smashed disks are appealingly abstract enough so as to fit on the finest porcelain), or an addictively delicious serve-in-a-basket low-brow side.

Directions

Step 1: Roast potatoes on a bed of salt until just cooked through.

Step 2: Crush potatoes with palm of hand – they should be flattened, but still in one piece.

Step 3: Blanch potatoes in 300ºF oil for 5 minutes.

Step 4: Hold potatoes in refrigerator or freezer until later use.

Step 5: Fry potatoes at 350ºF until crispy and brown.