I just love this country-fried potatoes recipe. I have been making diced hash browns our country-fried potatoes for such a long time. They are so good with eggs and bacon or stuffed in a breakfast burrito.
Growing up potatoes were a big part of our family. I have fond memories of eating diced hash browns or just hash browns as we called them. Other parts of the country called them country fried potatoes and only shredded potatoes were called hash browns. The name doesn’t matter, haha. Call them whatever you want.
My mom would often buy the Ore-Ida brand Potatoes O’Brien with was frozen diced potatoes, onions, and peppers. When I was little I didn’t care as much for the onions and peppers back then, but now I absolutely love them.
We had many breakfasts that consisted of country-fried potatoes, eggs, bacon, and toast. My all-time favorite breakfast. I would cut the bacon and eggs up and mix it all together with the hash browns. Put on heaps of ketchup and feast. So yummy!
This recipe is really easy to make, and pretty versatile, if I can do it, you can do it. Let’s get started!
Ingredients
- 4 to 5 medium potatoes washed, and peeled if desired
- 1 cup diced kielbasa sausage but you can use whatever meat you want (225g)
- 1/2 large onion diced
- 1/2 cup of diced bell peppers 75g
- Oil canola oil, vegetable oil, shortening, clarified butter, avocado oil, coconut oil (a few tablespoons)
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic powder
Instructions
Wash and dry the potatoes, peel them if desired. Cut them up into small cubes.
If you want them extra crisp, boil them in water for 3 to 4 minutes. This will remove the starch, or soak them in salt water for 30 minutes. Then dry them.
Add the oil to a skillet, and set on the burner, and heat it up with medium to medium-high heat.
Now dice up the onions, peppers, and sausage or whatever meat you are using, if you are using meat.
Add the onions and peppers to the hot skillet and cook them for a few minutes. Then add in the sausage. Keep cooking until the sausage is lightly browned. The type of Kielbasa I use comes precooked, you just need to brown it.
Remove the sausage, onions, and peppers and place in a bowl.
If using meat that isn't precooked, and is fatty, like breakfast sausage, you may elect to cook that in the skillet first, without oil, then remove a bit of the oil, before adding in the onions and peppers.
Add the potatoes to the skillet and cook them until browned evenly. It will take a while, especially if you didn't pre-boil them first, which I don't always do. Season the potatoes with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
Once the potatoes are nearly all browned, add back in the sausage, onion, and peppers mix and continue cooking everything until the potatoes are soft in the center and browned/crispy to your likely.
Take a spoon and taste it (blow on it first, it will be hot), if needed add more seasonings.
Serve with eggs, bacon, fruit, put in a breakfast burrito, etc. Enjoy!
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