Home fries use leftover baked potatoes and are a good side dish for any meal of the day.
Course: Side Dish
Keyword: baked potatoes, fries, potatoes
Ingredients
Two to four leftover baked potatoes
1tablespoonbutter or oil
saltto taste
pepperto taste
onion powderto taste
garlic powderto taste
paprikato taste
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees with an oven-safe skillet already in the oven (I used my 12-inch cast iron pan).
Cut your baked potatoes into about one-inch cubes. Remove the skins if you like (I left them on, because I love a crispy potato skin).
Once the oven is done preheating, carefully remove your pan and melt/heat up your butter or oil and swirl it to coat the pan.
Add the potatoes, stir them around a bit to distribute the butter/oil, and get them in as much of a single layer as possible.
Pop them in the oven for 10 minutes. Remove and turn the potatoes so that they evenly brown and pop them back in the oven for another 10 minutes. (Keep an eye on them so they don’t over-brown.)
After the second time in the oven, if they still need some browning time, give them another stir and let them go another five minutes or so at a time until you’re happy with the color on them.
Once they’re browned to your liking, pull them from the oven and stir in the spices to your taste (throw in some cayenne, too, if you like things spicy). Let the potatoes hang out in the pan for just a moment to let the heat release some of the spices’ aroma and then serve.