How to Make Your Own Fresh Hash Browns From Unpeeled Whole Potatoes

You wake up in the morning with a craving for hash brown potatoes for breakfast. You check the freezer for a bag of frozen hash browns but you find none. The only potatoes you have in the house are raw and unpeeled. What do you do if you don't want to run to the store? Make your own, it's easy, fast and probably less expensive than the frozen varieties. Without a doubt it is healthier than processed frozen hash browns that are loaded with preservatives.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Potatoes
• Frying pan, skillet or griddle
• Food processor or chopper
• Knife
• Butter
• Non-stick cooking spray
• Seasonings
• Spatula
• Serving dish

1. 
    
   Food chopper

   Get out a food processor, chopper or any other device that dices food.

2. 
    
   Wash potatoes

   Wash the potatoes thoroughly. I use a brush to scrub them under running water. One small potato will yield one serving of hash browns.

3. 
    
   Griddle

   Place the frying pan on the burner of the stove.

4. 
    
   Spray on Non-stick cooking oil

   Spray the pan with non-stick cooking spray.

5. Turn the burner on, low to medium heat.

6. Slice the potatoes into sections.

7. 
    
   Sections in chopper

   Place the potato sections into the food chopper.

8. 
    
   Diced sections

   Turn the chopper on. Leave on until all of the potato sections are diced.

9. 
    
   Pour potatoes

   Dump the diced potatoes into the frying pan.

10. Spread the potatoes with a spatula into a uniform layer covering the pan.

11. 
     
    Add butter

    Add butter while the potatoes are cooking. This gives them a buttery flavor. If you are trying for lower fat hash browns you can spray with butter flavored non-stick cooking spray. When I use the spray I repeat several times while the hash browns are cooking.

12. Season to taste. Options include adding salt, pepper, diced onions or diced peppers. Use your imagination and create your own unique flavor!

13. 
     
    Stir

    Stir, flip and turn numerous times with a spatula while the potatoes are cooking. Do this until the majority of the diced potatoes are a golden brown.

14. 
     
    These are done!

    Turn your stove's burner off.

15. 
     
    Serve

    Place on a serving dish.

16. Enjoy!

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful,the blades on food processors and choppers are extremely sharp!

[ringgold]

on 9/21/2009 Great instructions for making homemade hash browns !!! They can't be beat !!! 5*

[goodselfme]

on 9/18/2009 Good hash brown homemade recipe with great instructions.5*