Seasoned Crispy Home Fries - the ultimate breakfast side to accompany your eggs, bacon or sausage.
Order breakfast at a diner this side of the Atlantic and you are pretty likely to see Home Fries on the menu. Normally fried in butter in a skillet until crispy but fluffy on the inside, they are a popular choice for breakfast.
We have a local diner here that is one of my favourite choices for breakfast and whenever I go there, I will happily blow all my daily points on their home fries, which are seriously amazing.
So there seemed no better idea than to create my own version I could enjoy at home.
There are two options for cooking these, you can either cook these in the oven, or in the Tefal Actifry, The added bonus of course about the Actifry is that you don't need to rotate the potatoes to get an even browning, the actifry does it all for you.
The Actifry is a great option for foods that you would usually be deep fried. We have the Tefal Actifry 1.7kg family size, because being a family of 4, we need that extra capacity and some of my favourite recipes are:
- Hoisin Chicken
- Actifry Sweet and Sour Chicken Bites
- Actifry Breakfast Hash
- Crispy Air Fryer Potato Chip Chicken Goujons
- Salt and Pepper Chicken
- Mongolian Beef
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The key to getting the perfectly golden crispy seasoned Home Fries is part cooking before the browning process, and not adding the seasoning too early. You may be tempted to rush these and skip the parboiling stage, but trust me even when cooking these in the actifry, you won't get the same result if you don't parboil these first.
I will often make up a big batch of these to last a few mornings, as they can just be readded to the oven or actifry to heat up. So if you want to make these the night before to save time, then go right ahead.
I served mine with some sauteed mushrooms, onion, peppers and tomatoes. I just sauteed them in a pan with some cooking all spray, also using a little bit of stock to prevent from sticking, just keep reducing down and adding a little bit more. It's a great method for sauteing vegetables without the need for lots of oil. I use it as a method for these Garlic Sauteed Mushrooms.
All that is left to decide, is what else to serve these delicious Breakfast Home Fries with. I went for eggs and some crispy oven baked streaky bacon.
What Kitchen Items do I need to make this Breakfast Home Fries?
- Oven or Tefal Actifry
- Kitchen Scales
- Measuring Spoons
- Santoku Knife (perfect knife for chopping veg)
- Chopping Board
- Saucepan
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Breakfast Home Fries (Actifry or Oven)
Seasoned Crispy Home Fries - the ultimate breakfast side made healthier by cooking in the oven or Actifry.
Ingredients
- 800g/28oz of potatoes (in skin), cubed - (I used russets)
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 tsp of sweet paprika
- ½ teaspoon of onion powder
- ½ teaspoon of garlic powder
- pinch of black pepper
- cooking oil spray
Instructions
Oven Method
- Preheat oven to 220c/FAN 200c/425f or Gas Mark 7
- Add potatoes to a saucepan, cover with water, bring to a boil, then turn off heat and leave in water for 5 mins.
- Drain and pat dry.
- Add to a baking tray, season with the salt and spray with some cooking oil spray.
- Bake for about 20 minutes until lightly golden.
- Mix together the paprika, onion powder, garlic powder and black pepper.
- When the potatoes are lightly golden, remove from oven, sprinkle with the season and move around on the tray to fully coat.
- Spray again oven the top with cooking oil spray and bake for approx another 20 minutes until golden and crisp.
- Serve with your breakfast sides.
Actifry Method
- Add potatoes to a saucepan, cover with water, bring to a boil, then turn off heat and leave in water for 5 mins. Drain
- Add the potatoes to the actifry and turn on just to dry off any water.
- Remove the pan from the actifry and add the salt and spray with cooking oil spray, shake to coat.
- Add the pan back to the actifry and set for 15-20 minutes until lightly golden.
- Remove the pan from actifry again.
- Mix together the paprika, onion powder, garlic powder and black pepper.
- Add this to the potatoes and shake the pan to fully coat. Spray with more cooking oil spray
- Add the pan back to the actifry and continue to cook until golden and crispy.
- Serve with your breakfast sides.
Notes
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Nutrition Information
Yield 4 Serving Size 1 servingAmount Per Serving Calories 186Total Fat 0.3gSaturated Fat 0.1gSodium 601mgCarbohydrates 42.3gFiber 4.4gSugar 2.4gProtein 5g
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