Stir-fried shredded potatoes is a home-cooked dish that is not proud of its appearance, looks real and ordinary, and it is difficult to link it with high-end. However, it is often such an ordinary dish, but it can reflect superb cooking skills.
Vinegar-slipped shredded potatoes, sour and spicy shredded potatoes, and other familiar practices have long become our inseparable feelings. Delicious or not, one taste is known.
—— So what kind of shredded potatoes are delicious?
——The taste of fried shredded potatoes includes: whether the taste is tasteful, whether the chewing head is crisp and refreshing, and whether the appearance is good.
Of course, the seemingly slimy, sticky shredded potatoes are not delicious. Also, it is not delicious to eat powder, lack of fried potato shreds should have crisp and fresh, so it is not delicious.
Presumably, this is also the problem that many fans and friends encounter when cooking this dish! But we have a solution to these problems.
And the solution is: time to add vinegar!
When frying shredded potatoes, if the shredded potatoes are not soaked in water, they are directly fried in the pot, and it is easy to stick to the pan. At the same time, the fried potato shreds will stick to each other, and they will be sticky and not crispy to eat.
Therefore, after cutting the potatoes into strips, be sure to put the potatoes in the basin for a while to soak the starch in the potatoes. This avoids sticking and sticky shredded potatoes, which are not delicious and crisp to eat.
But the problem is that in the process of soaking water, the potato shredded potatoes lose not only starch, but also water-soluble vitamins and minerals. This will cause the dish of fried shredded potatoes to be nutritionally inadequate.
However, if we pour some vinegar into the water when soaking shredded potatoes, so that this can be a loss of starch, and the nutrients in the shredded potatoes can be protected from being lost.
But we need to pay attention to this: the vinegar used to make shredded potatoes, preferably white vinegar! Because not all vinegar can be used to make shredded potatoes!
Because, compared with balsamic vinegar and aged vinegar, the taste of white vinegar is relatively single, and there is no color. The shredded potatoes thus soaked will not have other flavors, and the color is also the color of the potatoes themselves, and will not change. The stir-fried texture will also be crisper and tastier.
It is not enough to add vinegar when soaking shredded potatoes, and we should also add vinegar when frying shredded potatoes. But when adding vinegar when frying, it is also necessary to divide it twice.
First time: Heat the oil in the pan, add the green onion and green and red pepper and other sauté until fragrant, then add vinegar. At this time, continue to stir-fry, stir-fry the vinegar until the heat in the pot is very high, and then add the shredded potatoes and stir-fry.
This allows the shredded potatoes to break off quickly and at the same time be fried more quickly to produce flavor.
Second time: When the shredded potatoes are about to come out of the pan, add vinegar again. At this time, adding vinegar should be properly controlled, add less, and pour along the side of the pot.
Because the vinegar added at the beginning will be stir-fried with the shredded potatoes, some of them will be volatilized. Vinegar is added to the pan to add the vinegar flavor of shredded potatoes.
Stir-fried shredded potatoes are easy to stick to the pan, so be sure to stir-fry frequently and fast. At the same time, do not add water during the stir-frying process, so that the fried potato shreds will have the feeling of "stewed potato shreds", rather than the crisp and refreshing taste after frying.
But to achieve this state, the potato shreds should be thin enough not too thick. Because it is too coarse and not easy to cook, you must add water in order to cook. In this way, no matter how to soak and how to put vinegar, it is useless. The resulting shredded potatoes are soft and have the feeling of being cooked.
It's not just high-end ingredients that need simple cooking, and often simple ingredients also need simple cooking. That's the essence of food!
With only potatoes and vinegar, you can cook a delicious taste, in fact, this is already a kind of soul. All we need is a good time to add vinegar.