I laugh whenever experts tell me that to preserve my potatoes, I should store them in a cool, dry place. What, you want I should drive my potatoes up to northern New Mexico Houston to Santa Fe
Tex-Mex Home Fries
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound baked potatoes, diced
1-2 cloves garlic, minced
1 small red onion, minced (about 1 cup)
½ red bell pepper, minced (about ½ cup)
pickled jalapeños to taste, minced (I used about 3 tablespoons)
salt to taste
½ teaspoon chili powder
¼ teaspoon smoked Spanish paprika
juice of ½ a lime (about 1 tablespoon)
2 tablespoons minced cilantro (optional)
Heat oil in a skillet. Sauté potatoes, garlic, onion and red bell pepper over medium heat until potatoes begin to brown, about 10 minutes. Add jalapeños and salt to taste. Add chili powder and paprika and cook about 2 minutes. Stir in lime juice and cilantro and serve.
Serves 4
I routinely use leftover potato cubes in PPK's base version of tofu scrambles, & think your dish would be an ideal candidate for that addition.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to buy the smoked paprika, or smoked chipotles, but will have to wait till I can get to the city to shop.
Questions: I'm wondering how the price compares, for smoked and regular.
Also: I've seen liquified smoked chipotles, but not dried. Do you see them as interchangeable, or prefer one over the other? I know of a place I could get the dried. Would you go the extra mile or so, if it were you shopping?
Thanks in advance!
Ooh, these potatoes and a tofu scramble would make great breakfast tacos.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure smoked paprika is about the same price as regular. It can be a little hard to find. I bought mine at the local Penzeys. Susan V at Fatfree Vegan uses it a lot. It's not hot, just very smokey.
When you say liquified smoked chipotles, do you mean canned chipotles in adobo sauce? Those are the best kind, in my opinion. I just put the whole can in the blender, then store the puree in a jar in the refrigerator. (Some people freeze it, but I don't think it's necessary. It keeps forever.) In fact, if you look at the bowl behind the potatoes, that's chipotle puree in Veganaise, for the tacos. It's really hot.
I saw smoked dried chipotles. They must have been huge on the plant, because dried, they were 4" x 8"!
ReplyDeleteWhen chipotles first came on the market up here, they were only sold in the chi-chi shops, and quite pricey. I just talked to a friend who says a wide variety of chipotle sauces are available everywhere now, and not expensive. So I'll get the black stuff in the jar and try the adobo in the can. I won't even have to run across town. (It's not the 1 or 2 miles, it's the horrid traffic jams!)