While French fries are a favorite for a reason, these potato sticks offer a new way to prepare the humble potato. Rather than cutting potatoes into fries, a mashed potato mixture comprising ham, bell pepper, green onions, and cheese is piped into hot oil to fry into sticks that are golden brown on the outside and pillowy on the insides. These potato sticks could easily be served as a side dish but they are also delicious as an appetizer.
To make the potato sticks, potatoes are cooked and mashed before being mixed with sautéed onion, garlic, and bell pepper, along with green onion, ham, cheese, eggs, salt, and cornstarch. Then, the mixture gets piped into sticks in hot oil, which fry to a beautiful golden brown.
What are Potato Sticks?
These potato sticks are fried potato sticks that are made of a mashed potato mixture containing a mixture of meat and vegetables. The combination of red bell peppers and green onions give the potato sticks a beautiful confetti appearance, while cheese and ham add some savoriness.
Pro Tips
- Choose whatever types of potatoes mash well such as Yukon Gold or Russet.
- Feel free to replace the red bell pepper with orange or yellow bell pepper if desired.
- Use whatever type of meltable cheese you enjoy such as cheddar, mozzarella, or gruyere.
- For extra smokiness, you could replace the ham with cooked bacon.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the Ingredients in Potato Sticks?
These homemade fried potato sticks include potatoes, cheese, ham, onion, bell pepper, green onion, garlic, salt, and cornstarch. The cornstarch is an essential component as it helps bind the mixture together into a thicker concoction.
What Temperature Should the Frying Oil Be?
The oil should be hot enough to fry the potato sticks without absorbing the oil but shouldn’t be so hot that the potato sticks burn. Generally, somewhere between 350 F to 375 F (177 C to 190 C) is a good option.
Are Potato Sticks Vegetarian?
These potato sticks aren’t vegetarian as they include ham. However, if you would like to make them suitable for vegetarian diets, you could easily omit the ham and they will still be delicious.
How to Store Potato Sticks
These potato sticks taste the best if enjoyed once they are fried, but you can store leftovers in the fridge for a few days and reheat them in an air fryer or oven to make them crispy again.
Ingredients
How to Make Potato Sticks
Peel the potatoes and place them in a pot of boiling water. Boil them for 30 minutes until soft. Drain them and transfer them to a bowl.
Peel the potatoes and place them in a pot of boiling water. Boil them for 30 minutes until soft. Drain them and transfer them to a bowl.
Heat olive oil in a pan. Add the onion, garlic, and red pepper, and cook it until soft. Remove it from the heat.
Heat olive oil in a pan. Add the onion, garlic, and red pepper, and cook it until soft. Remove it from the heat.
Mash the potatoes. Stir in the sauteed vegetables, green onions, ham, cheese, eggs, salt, and cornstarch until combined.
Mash the potatoes. Stir in the sauteed vegetables, green onions, ham, cheese, eggs, salt, and cornstarch until combined.
Place the potato mixture in a piping bag. Pipe sticks of potato mixture in hot oil and fry them until golden brown.
Place the potato mixture in a piping bag. Pipe sticks of potato mixture in hot oil and fry them until golden brown.
Serve the potato sticks on a platter and enjoy!
Serve the potato sticks on a platter and enjoy!
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