Secrets to great homemade hashbrowns.

While potatoes without added ingredients are the healthy way to eat them, making up hash browns without adding some fat is almost impossible.

Cook for Today
2 min readJul 18, 2023
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Therefore, creating hash browns from scratch is tastier with added nutritional value than a frozen convience product.

Important points.

  1. Grate potatoes easy with an ice-cold grater. Place grater in freezer before using.
  2. Keep as much skin on potatoes as possible and cut out visible black markings. Potato skin provides fiber.
  3. Bacon drippings and butter for delicious flavor.
  4. Start potatoes on high heat to form a golden crust, then turn them down to low.

Yield.

2 to 3 servings.

Ingredients.

  • 2 medium potatoes.
  • One tablespoon of bacon drippings.
  • One teaspoon of butter.
  • Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste.

Directions.

  1. Using a vegetable brush under cold running water, brush 2 medium to large potatoes.
  2. Poke a small slit with a knife into each one to release any trapped air to…

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Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist with a culinary arts degree. Food and nutrition freelance writer "back to the basics!”