How to Make Crispy Potatoes on the Stove
on May 26, 2021, Updated Oct 27, 2022
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Crispy sautéed potatoes are a perfect side to just about anything, morning, noon or night.
Crispy Sautéed Potatoes
The best crispy potatoes are a thing of absolute beauty. Not hash browns (which are also amazing), not home fries (again, amazing), but simpler and cleaner and 100% versatile.
Serve these as breakfast potatoes. Toss them onto a plate for lunch, instead of fries or chips. Crispy potatoes can be a partner to so many entrees for dinner. Sprinkle them atop casseroles. They can even be added to other dishes for texture and heft. Here they are being added to Turkey Picadillo.
How to Make Crispy Potatoes on the Stove
These are completely easy to make. Peel (or scrub) and dice the potatoes – you can use regular old baking potatoes for this recipe, or Yukon Gold potatoes, your choice.
Heat a bit of olive oil in a hot pan. Add the potatoes, and sauté, stirring occasionally but not too often, until they are gorgeous and crispy and tender. Sprinkle with a bit of salt, and, if you like, pepper as you cook them. Remove with a slotted spoon or a spatula and serve hot.
You can’t leave crispy potatoes out on the counter for long. And that’s not just because they are best hot (like, almost burn your mouth hot) but because people will eat them. Folks will walk right into your kitchen and see them on the counter and not even ask but just start picking them up with their fingers and popping them into their mouths, never once considering that perhaps you intended to serve them to others, or that they were part of dinner.
At least that’s what happens in my house.
What to Serve with Crispy Potatoes:
- Roasted Cod with Lemon Yogurt Sauce
- Perfect Roast Chicken
- Oven Baked Cajun Sticky Ribs
- Cilantro Lime Chicken
- Classic Meatloaf
Other Potato Side Dish Recipes:
- How to Make Perfect Roasted Potatoes
- Easy Classic Potato Salad
- The Best Easy Cheesy Loaded Hasselback Potatoes
- Dutch Oven Idaho Potatoes
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How to Make Crispy Potatoes on the Stove
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
- 4 large baking potatoes, peeled and diced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat (preferably cast iron or nonstick), add the oil, then sauté the potatoes until lightly browned and cooked through, about 10 minutes. You may need to do this in batches; don’t crowd the pan. Add a bit of salt, and pepper if you like, and toss and stir frequently.
- Remove them to a plate with a slotted spoon and serve hot.
I cook my potatoes in a stainless steel pan (covered) on medium heat in an induction cooktop & they are always overdone or mushy & my husband won’t eat them. How can I get them crispy?
it’s the covering that’s preventing them from becoming crispy! follow this recipe, and you should have crunchy crispy potatoes!
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