Spanish

Patatas Fritas Caseras (Homemade Twice-Fried Potatoes)

Name: Patatas Fritas Caseras (Homemade Twice-Fried Potatoes)
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 2 lb potatoes, julienned; 3 cups olive oil; 1 tsp salt

Noelia @noelia_vigo

Patatas Fritas Caseras (Homemade Twice-Fried Potatoes) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Easy Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lb potatoes, julienned
3 cups olive oil
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Soak the julienned potatoes in cold water for 15 minutes to draw out excess starch, then drain and pat completely dry.
Heat the olive oil in a deep, heavy pot to 300 F and fry the potatoes in batches for 5 to 6 minutes, until soft but pale, then lift out and drain on paper towels.
Raise the oil temperature to 375 F and fry the potatoes a second time, in batches, for 2 to 3 minutes, until deeply golden and crisp.
Drain briefly, season generously with the salt while still hot, and serve at once; the default Spanish guarnicion beside a filete, and neither of the two existing fried-potato dishes can fill a plain starch slot on its own.

Watch how to cook Patatas Fritas Caseras (Homemade Twice-Fried Potatoes)

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Serve it with

A Spanish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Patatas Fritas Caseras (Homemade Twice-Fried Potatoes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
  
  20 min
Something to sip
- Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Boquerones en Vinagre (Vinegar-Cured Anchovies)
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Patatas Fritas Caseras (Homemade Twice-Fried Potatoes) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Patatas Fritas Caseras (Homemade Twice-Fried Potatoes)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 360 kcal
Protein: 4 g
Carbs: 42 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 500 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Patatas Fritas Caseras (Homemade Twice-Fried Potatoes) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.