Shredded potato, a seemingly simple home-cooked dish, contains many cooking skills. Mastering these skills can make your shredded potato not only attractive in color, but also crisp and tender in taste.
Choose the right potato to make a delicious foundation.
When buying potatoes, try to choose medium-sized potatoes with smooth skin and no obvious buds. Such potatoes have moderate starch content, and the fried shredded potatoes will be crisp and delicious.
Skillful knife work is the key to making shredded potatoes.
Knife work of shredded potato is very important, and uniform thickness and moderate length of shredded potato can ensure consistent taste. After peeling potatoes, cut them into thin slices, then stack them together and cut them into shreds horizontally with a knife. Cut quickly and accurately, and try to cut a flat section on the surface of shredded potatoes.
Remove the sediment from the stagnant water to ensure a crisp taste.
After the shredded potatoes are cut, they should be soaked in water for a period of time to wash off the excess starch. This can prevent the potato shreds from sticking in the frying process, thus maintaining a crisp taste. The soaking time is usually 10- 15 minutes. If the soaking time is too long, the original flavor of shredded potatoes will be lost.
Cool the oil in a hot pot and lock the potatoes fresh and tender.
When frying shredded potatoes, you must choose a hot pot to cool the oil. Hot pot can make shredded potatoes ripen quickly by heating and keep them fresh, tender and juicy; The cold oil can prevent the potato shreds from sticking in the pot, thus ensuring clear roots.
Stir-fry quickly and stir-fry potatoes.
When frying shredded potatoes, use strong fire, so that the water can be quickly locked, and the shredded potatoes can be kept crisp and tender, so as not to be fried or stick to the pot. To ensure the speed of stir-frying, so that each shredded potato can be evenly heated.
Proper seasoning makes delicious taste.
The shredded potato itself has a light taste, so seasoning is particularly important. The most basic seasonings are salt and chicken essence, which can be added according to personal taste. Seasonings such as vinegar, soy sauce and pepper can also be added to add flavor levels.
Loading skills to enhance visual beauty
When the fried shredded potatoes are put on the plate, you can gently loosen them with chopsticks to show them clearly. The edge of the plate can be decorated with some chopped green onion or coriander to enhance the visual beauty and make this home-cooked dish more appetizing in an instant.
Summarize the coup and easily make good shredded potatoes.
Choose potatoes carefully and shred them evenly.
Starch is removed from the water, and the taste is crisp.
Stir-fry in hot pan with cold oil, fresh and juicy.
Stir-fry the fire quickly, and the delicious taste will be around.
Properly seasoned, it tastes delicious.
Pay attention to the plate loading and have a strong visual aesthetic feeling.