Make your side dishes rich with flavorful spice or put a new spin on breakfast with Chinese sauteed potatoes that will help break you out of your rut. There’s a simple secret to achieving the perfect texture too, ensuring a tender inside and crispy exterior that’s irresistible!
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Potatoes are always an excellent side dish. They’re easy to prepare, affordable, and they can be made in countless ways. They’re also nutritious, providing you with a well-rounded way to add more vitamins and minerals to your meal.
Sauteed potatoes make a great go-to side dish. But with these Chinese sauteed potatoes, you’re going to love the exotic twist on your favorite breakfast side dish classic.
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Ingredients
These sauteed potatoes, or as I like to call them – cumin chili home fries – are flavored with rich aromatics, cumin, and chili to give them a little kick. This homestyle dish is popular in China as a side dish, but I love to start my day with them as breakfast alongside sunny side-up eggs.
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How to cook sauteed potato
The secret to getting these sauteed potatoes to have a crispy exterior and a tender interior is in taking the time to boil them, then pan fry them with the mixed spices.
- Quickly blanch the potatoes
- Fry the potatoes in the pan until lightly browned
- Mix in the aromatics and spices
- Stir everything together
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This side dish will disappear fast, whether you have it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Another thing I love to do is drizzle a little chili oil to add another layer of spice. These sauteed potatoes are pretty irresistible already but I find that adding a little dash of chili oil makes them vanish even more quickly from the moment I set them on the table.
It’s almost impossible to have leftovers with these sauteed potatoes. Try as we might to save some, they’re just too good to stop eating!
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Other easy side dishes
- Chinese Zucchini Stir Fry
- 5-Ingredient Bitter Melon with Eggs
- Asparagus Salad with Mushroom and Eggs
- Ginger Green Beans (姜汁豆角)
- Vegetable Fried Rice (蔬菜炒饭)
- Air Fryer Chinese Eggplant
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Chinese Sauteed Potato (Cumin Chili Home Fries)
Ingredients
- 1 lb (450 g) potatoes (about 2 small russet potatoes), cut into 1” (1.5 cm) pieces (*Footnote 1)
- 2 teaspoons Chinese chili flakes (Optional)
- 2 teaspoons cumin powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground Sichuan peppercorn
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil (or vegetable oil)
- 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 2 cloves garlic , minced
- 2 green onion , sliced
Instructions
- Add potatoes to a medium pot and water to cover potatoes. Bring to a boil, and continue to boil until the potatoes just turn soft, about 5 minutes.
- Once done, rinse the potatoes with cold tap water to stop cooking. Drain potatoes thoroughly and let them dry a bit. This helps crisp up the potatoes.
- Mix the chili flakes, cumin powder, and ground Sichuan peppercorn powder in a small bowl.
- Heat oil in a large non-stick skillet and heat over medium-high heat until hot. Add the potato and sprinkle with the salt. Stir a few times to coat well with oil then spread out into a single layer without overlapping. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the surfaces turn golden crispy, about 8 minutes or so. Add the garlic, green onion, and sprinkle with the spice mix. Pour in a bit of oil if the potatoes look dry. Cook and stir until everything is mixed well together. Serve hot as a side or as breakfast with sunnyside eggs.
Notes
- Yukon potato or red potato works as well, depending on the texture you prefer.
I love love love that you used sichuan peppercorn on these potatoes. What a great twist! I am totally going to have to try these!
Absolutely Beautiful,
Excellent stuff
Delish!
Perfect pairing