We Southerners love fried potatoes. My twin daughters can’t get enough of their Southern Mamma’s fried potatoes. We can eat them for three meals a day and love them for breakfast.
10 medium potatoes, peeled, washed and sliced.
3/4 to 1 cup oil (I use Canola)
1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons minced garlic
salt and pepper (I like a lot of pepper and not much salt)
2 to 3 tablespoons bacon grease (optional)
Have your grease and oil hot. Add potatoes, onion and garlic, pepper. Fry uncovered for about 45 minutes turning down stove after potatoes have browned and cooking until done. Remove from stove, add salt. Enjoy!
Note: Fried potatoes are good leftover and reheated. If you have never had cold fried potatoes on a biscuit with mustard, try it, you’ll probably like it!
You might also like my recipe for Buttermilk Biscuits!
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Best potatoes in the entire world!!! I have dreams about them!
Love you Mom!
Leigh
I love Leigh’s comment. I think I’d have sweet dreams about these, too, Judy. They look so good. By the way, I’m like you—I like lots of black pepper (and the garlic, too, of course). I think using a lot of the pepper enables you to use less salt.
Thank you for your kind comment, Judy—I really appreciate it. Since I’d quit my blog, I was surprised (but very, very grateful) to get comments.
Those look so good! I don’t know anyone that doesn’t like potatoes, especially ones fixed like yours!
I also want to try your fruit muffins. Talk about getting all your fruit in one serving!
I made your corn salad for fourth of July and it was fantastic. I used Duke’s mayo which really made it for me.
Duke’s Mayo is the best thing I ever had I swore by Hellman’s til my son in law introduced me to Dukes I must try the corn salad I love this site it has so much good food on it I love the Southern Lady cooks. I love to cook glad to see someone else who loves Dukes. I get 10-12 jars every time they come up to IL from TN.
Rita, don’t know how close you live to St Louis…but I’ve been able to get Duke’s at Schnuck’s Markets here. You’re right…beats Hellman’s hands-down!
I LOVE these potatoes!! Best food in the world!!
-Anne
Leigh is right, these are the stuff dreams are made of. The two best meals they go with are “The Full Breakfast” and “Soup Bean Supper” (soup beans, fried taters, cornbread, salmon patties, kraut and weinies,and some kind of homemade relish). Now I’m hungry…….
Now, YOU, have me hungry for soup beans, too! Great meals. Thanks for coming by.
Aw…this post reminds me of those special moments having dinner with my Mom. She made the best Country Fried Potatoes (and the best soup beans and corn bread)! I wish I would of spent more time paying attention to how she cooked and the ingredients she used.
Great recipe and so delicious. I also take and cover them with sweet milk after they are browned and simmer until done…..makes a great tater and gravy to go with your Sausage Cheese Biscuits.
Mary, That sounds wonderful. I like gravy on anything and so does my family. I will have to try it your way, too.
I like cream corn with my fried potatoes. I cook this alot.
Cream corn sounds yummy! We like anything with potatoes. lol.
I cook this for my grandsons all the time, a great addition to any meal. thanks for posting.
Thanks for coming by Diane. Have a great weekend.
mmm looks like you need a pot of beans with those fried potatoes, and some buttermilk cornbread cooked in an iron skillet
best recipe i’ve found is off the back of a clabber girl’s can
I had mine yesterday morning with corn bread. It was really good, I almost ate too much!
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I make these often, and I usually cut up ham or bacon to go in it. My son likes to scramble eggs in his and roll it up in a tortillia. I like my eggs on the side. I serve this with lots of ketchup or salsa.
When I was a kid my dad would make fried potatoes for breakfast on the weekends. My favorite part was the browned crusty parts that were almost burned, lol. I love to make them now, and they are good, but were better when Dad made them. I think it’s because there was a lot of love cooked in with those taters. Lots of pepper is the key too. I remember him cooking breakfast on the weekends and having almost every dish in the kitchen dirty, lol. always made me chuckle.
Hi Brenda, Such great memories of your dad. I am sure my children will remember by country breakfasts as well because they are a favorite thing when they come home. Mine would rather have breakfast than Thanksgiving dinner I think! Have a great weekend and thanks for being a part of my site.
I just got a bodacious bunch of collards at Ingles, and this potatoe recipe will round it out for me tomorrow. Pone of cornbread, and maybe even some salmon patties. Whew, don’t you just love good ole home cooking?
Bill Clay
Yes, Bill, and your meal tomorrow sounds delicious. Another thing we love is salmon patties, too. Enjoy your meal and your weekend and thanks for being a part of my site.
Fried Country Potatoes……..try them with a chopped bell pepper added to all the ingredients….. A friend back in WV fixed them like that and I haven’t ate fried potatoes without bell peepers in it every since, ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!!! Also for a added kick, add a little chili powder while cooking or a teaspoon or so of a ‘de-seeded’ salsa pepper chopped fine….
I LOVEEEEEE THIS SITE AND USE YOUR RECIPES OFTEN!
also, add some chopped onions! gives it a wonderful flavor, along with the bell peppers. i also, use a combination of olive oil and margarine(country crock). you can use less oil this way, and they are still great!
thats how i fry mine except the garlic
When I was a kid, my Daddy used to fry them up in an iron skillet. Lots of salt and pepper was all he used for seasoning. They would have some parts that were cooked kind of browned up and crunchy…..they sure were yummy. I cook them sometimes now, they’re good but they aren’t dad’s, lol
This is the only way to enjoy fried potatoes .I makeem this way .. When my children was young this was the only way they would eat them,,Today they wait for mama to make them for them and I love it..Thank Yor for the sharing…