Easy Vegan CRACK Breakfast Potatoes
Prepare for the easiest, crispiest and most addicting breakfast potatoes EVER!!! Once you have one you will be addicted!Ā Best of all, they are healthy ANDĀ ready in under 20 minutes!!!Ā It does not get better than this!
The potato has got to be the worldās most perfect food. It can mashed, pureed, fried, baked, roasted, nuked, boiled or steamed. And can be used as a sauce, an entrĆ©e, one of many terrific side dishes (typically loaded with creamy butter and luscious cream). I love potatoes.
When I went plant based a few months ago, I rejoiced in the celebration of the all mighty potato. For the first time in what seemed to be an eternity, I was able to have the potato for breakfast lunch and dinner. Carbs are my friend and potatoes are carb friendly.Ā Not so good for the Ketogenics and the Atkinās peeps out there, but fabulous for us plant based folk.
I feel like our trusty potato has been given a horrible rep. It is actually loaded with tons of vitamins and is an excellent source of Vitamin K. Plus can we talk about how flipping delicious it is? Letās speak open here: I am from the Motherlandā¦AKA Mother Russia. Potatoes were served for breakfast, in soups for lunch and as a healthy side dish to dinner. It was cheap, plentiful and the motherland was effing cold in the winter time and we needed something to keep out bellies full and warm and our taste buds blissfully happy.
Babushka and my mom always made the best potatoes. My mom was master of the mashed potato. Loaded up with sour cream and butter, sometimes garlic. And babushkaās masterful young potatoes and garlic dill butter were legendary. We were a potato loving family and we were all fairly thinā¦except my brother and Iā¦our bodies resembled Gollumās from Lord of the Ringsā¦My Preciousā¦
Somewhere in high school I started avoiding the potato like the plague. I am not quite sure when this abomination of an idea happened. But it was like a disease. EVERYONE started avoiding the potato. White=bad. No more white. Except white suits, those are always a bold and fabulous fashion statement. I think Oprah had something to do with this cult statement, she typically has a hand in starting these trends.
I of course rebelled and had my lovely potatoes when I could. What can be better than creamy dreamy mashed potatoes? Or crispy hash browns. How about perfectly crispy potatoes that are done in under 20 minutes? These potatoes are just that.
There is a really interesting method used in the preparation of these potatoes. It requires pre-cooking the potatoes just a tad and then crisping them up in hot oil on a pan. The idea behind this is that it cooks partially on the inside with getting any color on the outside. So in the end you get perfectly cooked, soft, tender potatoes on the inside and gloriously brown and crispy goodness on the outside. I learned about it first in culinary school, perfected it after careful experiments at home and it was just simplified for me when I read a blog post from one of my fellow bloggers, Minimalist Baker.
She posted these gorgeous potatoes on her blog and I thought I must have them. She did something very interesting when pre-cooking them. Typically, when I precook my potatoes, I parboil them first. She did something slightly differentĀ : she nuked them. I scratched my head a bit when I saw thisā¦ What? But it made perfect sense and it was EASY! Just stick the washed potatoes in the microwave and thatās it. You are good. Then just cut them up and pan fry them in some butter or dairy free butter. This part was actually fun. I stood over the pan and watched as each potato quarter got glorious and brown in just minutes right in front of my very eyes! It wasā¦magic. Potatoes this good only need a healthy handful of good Kosher salt and some fresh herbs on top.
While making them, hubs came up behind me and grabbed one, then another and another annnnnd another. āDamn it Mila, these are crack potatoes!ā They areā¦they really are. Unlike crack however, they will do your body good.
PrintEasy Vegan CRACK Breakfast Potatoes
Description
Prepare for the easiest, crispiest and most addicting breakfast potatoes EVER!!! Once you have one you will be addicted! Best of all, they are healthy AND ready in under 20 minutes!!! It does not get better than this!
Ingredients
- 1 pounds red potatoes
- 3–4 tbsp vegan butter
- salt and pepper to taste
- chopped parsley
- vegan spray oil
Instructions
- Wash potatoes and place them in the microwave for 3-4 minutes until they are just soft to the touch.
- Add the vegan butter to a medium sized pan and turn up to medium high heat.
- Cut the potatoes into quarters while still warm and place onto pan. The key is to let each side cook for 2 minutes and then flip them carefully. Once they are all browned remove from pan spray with the pan spray lightly, then season with salt and pepper. This pan spray helps the salt and pepper stick to the potatoes.
- Sprinkle with herbs and eat immediately.
- Category: Vegan
- Cuisine: American
Oh I love potatoes in any way of cooking and any shape. These ones look absolutely irresistible!
Thank you!!! I really loved these! So much that I made them twice!
You must have read my mind! I was just standing in my kitchen this morning wondering what to make, and visions of roasted potatoes kept dancing through my head. I love how quick and easy these are to make – something that’s very important for me before my coffee has had a chance to kick in š
Haha Kathleen totally agree!!! I haven’t broadcasted these yet… I’ve been a bad little blogger in Miami š so feel like you are a VIP reading these š xoxo
I have to admit, I’ve not once eaten potatoes for breakfast {more of a sweet breakfast person}, but these potatoes may change my mind — they look amazingly crispy! <3
Thank you!!! They are soooo super crisoy
When I have a big breakfast I have to have potatoes with it and these look so good and crispy. I have to try these.
And Soooo easy š
*smile* Since almost all of my diet is Asian or North African I have to admit potatoes have rarely entered my food realm in the decades I have lived Down Under. But these do look scrumptious even tho’ I gave some doubts they will grace my breakfast table š ! Must admit whenever I do use potatoes I usually steam them both for health and taste: but no, that would not fit into the given time frame . . .
Eha, I literally cannot live without potatoes! They are my crack š
Oh, most Europeans or those of European heritage can’t – especially those from Eastern Europe where it IS an everyday staple! But I came here as a child and for me ’tis largely a brown rice and Asian noodle world with heaps of stuff like polenta, quinoa, freekeh etc to boot. Often 5-7 vegetables on the plate or a big salad are enough š ! Besides, having studied nutrition for some 25 years at uni level makes one think of things like HGI and HGL . . . to each delightfully their own!