This is our comfort food! Childhood memories! Thursday – Friday nights at students dormitories kitchen. Why? Cause no money left for something else, good if you have oil and potatoes from home. So, this dish is the main cause, cause for others than Latvians it might look like a side dish :).
So simple, that you might want to add ham and onions? Maybe! But I love them so much especially in wintertime when there are cold outside! Also, this is not healthy food, I would call it Latvian junk but everyone loves it!
If you know another name for this main cause, let me know!
Fried potatoes Latvian style
Childhood memories!
Ingredients
- 6 potatoes
- pinch of salt
- oil
Directions
- Wash and peel potatoes.
- Cut potatoes into small cubes.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add potatoes and sprinkle with salt.
- Stir every 2-5 minutes until golden brown. Taste. Add more salt if needed.
Ilze
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I love it too. I really like potatoes and fried potatoes particularly. ‘Comfort food’ here too – who cares whether it’s healthy? I think there’s a lot of nonsense talked about that anyway.
PS. We don’t as far as I know have a name for it in English, in fact I’ve never seen it served with diced potatoes here, but the Swedes do – pyttipanna – which I’m told translates as ‘little pieces in the pan’. However, they serve it with pickled beetroot not pickled gherkin.
🙂 Oh, those Swedes, they don’t know anything about proper pickle 😀 Just kidding 🙂
I love fried potatoes
Do you make them like this?!
Yes I do,, I add few more spices and stuff,, but I always fry them that way,,
🙂 Good to know! Sometimes I add onion and ham.. but very rear!
I add the onion never ham tho,, might try some ham
🙂
Looks yummy!
Potatoes… simple potatoes 🙂
In the USA we call them Home Fries:) Go to any restaurant for breakfast and that’s what they give you with eggs, bacon and ham! If you mix in the bacon or ham, maybe with a little cheese, they’re called Hash Browns. I make them as a side dish for lots of meals, but fold them into an aluminum foil pockets and bake, with the skins on and maybe a little garlic…but now I’m getting away from your pure and simple recipe that looks totally yummy:)
Kind regards, Carolyn
Nice! Home fries! Never heard before! I want to google and try with garlic! Thank you for sharing, Carolyn!
can’t beat potatoes for comfort food! 🙂
😀 True! I just found out they are called home fries! Have you ever heard that before?!
absolutely! an everyday term here! 🙂
I love fried potatoes.. need this.
I hope you had an opportunity to make/have fried potatoes! 🙂
I’ve never seen/eaten fried potatoes diced, BUT we ate fried plantains diced just like this as kids. I guess my mum thought they went a long that way 😊 as they were quite expensive
🙂 Interesting! Try these ones 😉
In India it is our comfort food too! We add red chillies to them, butter, cheese, green chillies etc.!
Nice to hear! We keep it simple 🙂
I cook up these little potatoes in bacon fat. Oh so yummy and delicious and very flavourful.
This reminds me of my mother cooking strips of potato in a frying pan calling them chips. We only had a few each – I guess the size of the pan prevented more from being cooked.
I rather like this idea and will definitely try it out.
Thanks so much for sharing the recipe.
I have pickled gherkins too so will add them on the side.
Amanda ( in Australia)
Hi, Amanda! Greetings from Latvia!
That sounds lovely, Amanda! 😊 I love how simple traditions like frying a few potato strips can bring back such warm memories. Adding pickled gherkins on the side sounds perfect — a little tangy crunch always lifts the dish. I hope you enjoy making it as much as your mum did!
Do you usually try other traditional Latvian recipes too, or is this a special treat?
I have a Scandi heritage with a teeny touch of Baltics according to DNA – I primarily make Scandi dishes, but y’know everything goes well with gherkins!
Everything! How about dill?