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Spicy Crispy Potatoes

November 27, 2017 8 Comments

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Spicy crispy potato is the most popular street food for Chinese. You can find it almost in every city of China. And this is also my mom’s favorite way to cook potatoes.

Spicy Small Potatoes| ChinaSichuanFood.com

The most popular Chinese potato dish in the home kitchen might be the shredded potato stir fry and the most popular street potato snack is this crispy potatoes with various seasonings and my favorite one is cumin powder. But it is completely ok if you want to use black pepper, five spice or other mixed herbs. If you use cumin as me, I strongly suggest add some red onion. You can use large potatoes, cut into one bite sizes or use the small baby potatoes. And it is also your option to keep the skin or remove them.

Other Chinese potato recipes

  • Shredded potato pancake 
  • Chinese shredded potato salad, mainly served as side dishes
  • Di San Xian, a vegetable mixture dishes with eggplants, green peppers and potatoes.

Ingredients

  • 500g small potatoes or large potatoes
  • 2 tbsp. cooking oil
  • 2 scallions, white part and green part separated
  • 2 tbsp. chopped garlic
  • 1 tbsp. chopped ginger
  • 1/4 red onion
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 small bunch of coriander
  • 1 tbsp. Chinese chili oil (optional)
  • 2 tbsp. red chili pepper powder
  • 1 tbsp. freshly ground cumin powder

Steps

Peel and cut large potatoes into one bite size pieces or if you use small baby potatoes, cook them directly. Simmer for around 12 to 15 minutes until the potatoes are just cooked so you can easily insert a chopstick without breaking the potatoes. Optional: remove the skins of the small potatoes.

Heat around 1 and 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil in pan, add potatoes to fry until crispy and golden.

Spicy Small Potatoes| ChinaSichuanFood.com

Transfer the potatoes to the edges of the pan and add another 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil in center and fry garlic, ginger and scallion until aromatic. Add red onion and continue frying for 2-3 minutes until the red onion becomes soft too.

Sprinkle chili oil, salt, cumin power and red pepper powder if you are using. At last, mix coriander stem and chopped green onions.

Spicy Small Potatoes| ChinaSichuanFood.com

For those who love hotter version, simple serve with dried chili powders. You can simple serve with a mixed chili powder.

Spicy Small Potatoes| ChinaSichuanFood.com

5 from 3 votes
Spicy Small Potatoes| ChinaSichuanFood.com
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Spicy Crispy Potatoes
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 
Spicy crispy potatoes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese
Keyword: potatoes, Spicy
Servings: 2
Calories: 442 kcal
Author: Elaine
Ingredients
  • 500 g small potatoes or large potatoes
  • 2 tbsp. cooking oil
  • 2 scallions ,white part and green part separated
  • 2 tbsp. chopped garlic
  • 1 tbsp. chopped ginger
  • 1/4 red onion
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 small bunch of coriander
  • 1 tbsp. Chinese chili oil ,optional
  • 2 tbsp. red chili pepper powder
  • 1 tbsp. freshly ground cumin powder
Instructions
  1. Peel and cut large potatoes into one bite size pieces or if you use small baby potatoes, cook them directly. Simmer for around 12 to 15 minutes until the potatoes are just cooked so you can easily insert a chopstick without breaking the potatoes. Optional: remove the skins of the small potatoes
  2. Heat around 1 and 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil in pan, add potatoes to fry until crispy and golden.
  3. Transfer the potatoes to the edges of the pan and add another 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil in center and fry garlic, ginger and scallion until aromatic. Add red onion and continue frying for 2-3 minutes until the red onion becomes soft too.
  4. Sprinkle chili oil, salt, cumin power and red pepper powder if you are using. At last, mix coriander stem and chopped green onions.
  5. For those who love hotter version, simple serve with dried chili powders. You can simple serve with a mixed chili powder.
Nutrition Facts
Spicy Crispy Potatoes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 442 Calories from Fat 234
% Daily Value*
Fat 26g40%
Saturated Fat 2g13%
Sodium 284mg12%
Potassium 1542mg44%
Carbohydrates 48g16%
Fiber 12g50%
Sugar 1g1%
Protein 10g20%
Vitamin A 4525IU91%
Vitamin C 35.1mg43%
Calcium 219mg22%
Iron 15.8mg88%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Spicy Small Potatoes| ChinaSichuanFood.com

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  1. HeikoS says

    November 30, 2017 at 4:54 am

    5 stars
    Thanks for this recipe. I was pleasantly surprised by how good it turned out. Wonderful.

    Reply
    • Elaine says

      November 30, 2017 at 9:44 am

      bingo! That’s my family’s favorite potato dish.

      Reply
  2. Osti says

    December 4, 2017 at 4:16 am

    5 stars
    It’s similar to my potato recipe. I’m using olive oil, same set of spices + rosemary and baking 20 min.

    I was tried your version and it’s just amazing 🙂

    Reply
    • Elaine says

      December 5, 2017 at 9:00 am

      Thanks Osti. I believe your olive oil version is quite yummy too.

      Reply
  3. Jed says

    December 7, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    5 stars
    Hi Elaine,

    I’m currently working on my website that would feature foods that I like to try cooking. Since almost EVERYTHING here in your blog is appealing to my taste, I would like to ask for your permission to use your photos and the recipes.

    Thanks in advance!

    Jed

    Reply
    • Elaine says

      December 7, 2017 at 7:02 pm

      Hi Jed,
      Sorry that I do not give general permission to use my photos and recipes. Please specify your request.

      Reply
      • Jed says

        December 8, 2017 at 12:15 pm

        Hi Elaine,

        It’s alright. It’s more like of an index of recipes I want. So in a recipe I will add, I will use the photo found in your blog post as the featured header. Then your recipe is added below the image (I use ultimate recipe to make it printable as well). Then I put a citation below the recipe like this one:
        Reference: Chinasichuanfood.com (hyperlinked to your blogpost of the specified recipe).
        Hope you will approve of this. Thanks! 🙂

        Reply
  4. lou botelho says

    December 9, 2017 at 6:19 pm

    i love these potato I think I’m in love with you and you recipes .

    Reply

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