With a braided appearance and golden color, these potato braids are a type of potato fritter made of a potato-based dough. These potato braids are wonderful served as a savory appetizer but they could also be enjoyed as a snack.
To make the potato braids, you boil the potatoes until they are a mashable consistency before mixing them with salt, pepper, corn flour, and olive oil until combined. Then, the dough gets shaped into braided fritters before being fried in hot oil.
What are Potato Braids?
Potato braids are a type of potato fritter that has a braided shape and are fried. Fritters are often savory fried morsels that include different vegetables or meat. This recipe involves making a dough with mashed potatoes, corn flour, salt, pepper, and oil for a dough that is soft and easy to braid.
Pro Tips
- Choose potatoes that are ideal for mashed potatoes such as russet potatoes or Yukon Gold potatoes.
- Press the potatoes through a fine-mesh sieve or potato ricer to make it as smooth as possible.
- If the dough mixture seems too sticky to work with, you can dust your hands with corn flour as you shape the fritters.
- Feel free to add other ingredients to the potato braid dough such as spices or fresh herbs like rosemary, sage, or chives.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Type of Potatoes Should Be Used in Potato Braids?
The best choice of potato to make these potato braids is the same type you would normally use for mashed potatoes. Both russet potatoes and golden potatoes are great options for this recipe.
How Hot Should the Frying Oil Be?
The ideal temperature for the frying oil is around 350 F to 375 F (177 C to 190 C).
What Type of Oil Should Be Used For Frying?
You should choose a neutral-tasting oil and one that has a high smoke point such as vegetable oil, sunflower oil, and canola oil. Alternatively, you could fry the potato braids in hot beef tallow if you are looking to fry in something other than a seed oil.
How to Store Potato Braids
While the potato braids will be at their best as soon as they are made, you could store leftover fritters in a sealed container in the fridge for a few days. Then, when you are ready to reheat them, you can heat them in the oven or air fryer so they become crispy again.
Ingredients
How to Make Potato Braids
Peel the potatoes and cut them in cubes, and boil them for 15 minutes.
Peel the potatoes and cut them in cubes, and boil them for 15 minutes.
Mash the potatoes in a bowl and stir with the salt, pepper, corn flour, and olive oil until combined.
Mash the potatoes in a bowl and stir with the salt, pepper, corn flour, and olive oil until combined.
To shape each potato braid, place the potato mixture in a piping bag. Pipe the potato mixture into three lines before braiding them together.
To shape each potato braid, place the potato mixture in a piping bag. Pipe the potato mixture into three lines before braiding them together.
Fry the potato braids in the hot oil until they are golden on both sides, turning them halfway.
Fry the potato braids in the hot oil until they are golden on both sides, turning them halfway.
Serve immediately!
Serve immediately!
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