Healthy, Quick Fried Seasoned Potatoes
Sometimes you just need a healthy, quick side dish of some fried and seasoned potatoes. This side dish is absolutely perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Plus, you only need a few ingredients!
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The flavor of this quick side dish is out-of-this-world amazing. But it’s also nutritious and healthy!
I like to make these potatoes year-round but especially during the cold months. Hot potatoes with warming spices and garlic make me happy, y’all.
If you have unexpected company and need to add a little bulk to your breakfast, lunch, or dinner meal, I want to encourage you to try these delicious quick fried seasoned potatoes.
I know you probably think that “fried” and “healthy” don’t go together. But it’s all about the ingredients that you use.
Ingredients for healthy, quick fried seasoned potatoes.
The only ingredients that you’ll need for healthy, quick fried seasoned potatoes are potatoes, coconut oil, a few cloves of fresh garlic, Montreal steak seasoning, salt, and pepper.
I love to eat these fried potatoes as part of my breakfast. Don’t be intimidated by the steak seasoning. The Montreal seasoning adds so much flavor to these potatoes!
Potatoes
The best kind of potatoes for skillet-frying are the red or gold potatoes, but russet and sweet potatoes work perfectly well, too.
I don’t bother peeling the potatoes before I dice them up. I like to keep the skins on because most of the nutrition is in the skin.
Just be sure to wash your potatoes well, regardless of whether they’re organic or not.
Coconut Oil
Coconut oil adds just a hint of coconut flavor to these potatoes. I prefer using cold-pressed, filtered, and unrefined coconut oil so I get the flavor but you can use what you enjoy and have on hand.
If you don’t like the coconut flavor, feel free to add another type of fat to your skillet. Rendered bacon grease or sausage grease would work well. Plus it would add a punch of flavor. Or you can simply use butter, olive oil, or avocado oil.
Coconut oil is fabulous to use for high-heat cooking but not for deep frying. We don’t deep-fry much at my house and this recipe doesn’t call for deep-frying.
Garlic
If you have a few cloves of fresh garlic handy, it really elevates these fried potatoes. But dried garlic will also work.
I love using fresh garlic wherever I can during the colder months. Garlic is a powerful anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and antioxidant. And we can all use a little bit more of that during the cold and flu season!
Montreal Steak Seasoning
Adding Montreal steak seasoning to my fried potatoes is my secret ingredient. It’s also why I can serve these quick fried potatoes for breakfast, lunch, or supper!
Montreal seasoning is a blend of spices like dried garlic, dill, red pepper flakes, salt, and black pepper. You can make your own blend if you’d prefer to omit one or more of the above ingredients, though.
Salt
Even though the Montreal seasoning has some salt, I like to add a bit more salt to my fried potatoes. Redmond real salt is what I use but you can also use another sea salt like Celtic grey salt or Himalayan pink salt.
Sea salt is great because it has extra minerals included. Did you know that Redmond real salt has over 60 trace minerals?
Pepper
Last but not least, I like to add a bit more black pepper to the quick fried potatoes. The heat of the pepper complements the potatoes and the other spices.
Instructions for healthy, quick fried seasoned potatoes.
Like I mentioned at the beginning of this post, this quick side dish is perfect to add onto a meal when you have unexpected family or friends stop by. It’s also delicious when it’s just you and your family gathered around the table.
Tools
You’ll need a skillet (preferably cast iron; it really makes a difference), a cutting board, knife, garlic press, wooden spoon, and some measuring spoons.
Steps
Here are the steps from start to finish for how to make healthy, quick fried seasoned potatoes.
The key to the quick frying time is the tiny dice that you’ll do on the potatoes.
Wash the potatoes well and dice them small. Use however many potatoes you need to fill up the skillet that you have.
Then add a few tablespoons of coconut oil to your skillet, or enough to get a good layer of fat on the bottom of your skillet. (If you don’t add enough fat, the potatoes won’t brown or crisp properly.) Turn the heat up to medium or medium-high to melt the coconut oil.
Some burners get hotter than others on stoves by design. I use my second-hottest burner for these potatoes, and I set my temperature between medium and medium-high.
Add your small diced potatoes and stir well so that the potatoes get coated in the melted coconut oil.
After the potatoes are coated with the oil, leave them undisturbed to cook on the bottom so that the potatoes turn a golden brown color.
Add in the minced garlic when you start to see some of the potatoes turning a golden brown color. Then give your potatoes a good stirring to distribute the garlic evenly.
Next, add in the Montreal seasoning, salt, and pepper to taste. I usually start with about a tablespoon of Montreal seasoning, a teaspoon of salt, and a half-teaspoon of black pepper. Then I’ll adjust at the end and usually add in a pinch or two more of Montreal seasoning and salt.
Stir well to distribute the spices evenly.
Then let the potatoes finish frying in your oil so that the majority of the potatoes are a nice, golden brown color.
The key is to not stir them too much. Allow the potatoes to fry in the oil and get a bit crispy.
If you need to add more coconut oil to your pan because your potatoes aren’t browning, it’s fine to add another few tablespoons at this point.
When most of the potatoes are golden brown, you can turn off the heat and move the skillet off the hot burner.
These potatoes are best served right away while they’re still hot.
What to serve with fried, seasoned potatoes.
For breakfast, I like to keep it simple and serve these potatoes up with some scrambled or fried eggs and a biscuit.
For lunch or dinner, these seasoned potatoes are excellent with dishes like fried or baked fish or shrimp. They’re also excellent with meatloaf and other meaty meals like steaks, ribs, and pork chops!
Recipe card for healthy fried seasoned potatoes.
Healthy Fried Seasoned Potatoes
Equipment
- skillet
- cutting board
- wooden spoon
- sharp knife
- measuring spoons
- garlic press
Ingredients
- 8 medium potatoes
- 3 cloves fresh garlic
- 3 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tbsp Montreal steak seasoning, plus more to taste
- 1 tsp salt, plus more to taste
- 1/2 tsp black pepper, plus more to taste
Instructions
- Wash potatoes and dice them small. Add the coconut oil (or other fat) to your skillet and turn the heat between medium and medium-high. You want a thick layer of oil coating the bottom of your skillet. Don't skimp out or else your potatoes won't brown or crisp properly.
- Add the diced potatoes to the skillet and stir them to get them coated well. Then let the potatoes sit for roughly 5 minutes so they can get golden brown and crispy on the bottom. Adjust the heat, as necessary.
- Add in 3 cloves of pressed garlic or minced garlic, Montreal seasoning, salt, and pepper. Stir well and let the potatoes sit again for between 4 to 5 minutes to get golden brown and crispy. (You can add more coconut oil now if there's not a good layer of fat on the bottom of your skillet to brown the potatoes.)
- Once most of the potatoes are golden brown and crispy, take the skillet off the heat. Taste the potatoes and adjust the seasonings, as necessary.
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