Turn your baby potatoes into mini hasselback fries! These deep fried baby potatoes are soft in the middle with lots of crispy bits on the outside. These are such a fun appetizer that everyone will enjoy! Fry or roast them – the choice is yours!
Baby potatoes are probably supposed to be for salads, right?
LOLZ.
Let’s deep fry them instead.
In this winter weather, I sometimes crave a bit of fatty goodness and, in the interest of balance, I don’t see anything wrong with taking out the deep fryer from time to time. If you own a deep fryer, you probably feel the same way.
I got the idea to deep fry mini hasselback potatoes after seeing the baby blooming onions on spoonforkbacon.com. Those baby blooming onions got right under my skin and I am just waiting for the perfect moment to make them.
Meanwhile, it inspired me to think about other minified fried foods and this just sort of popped into my head.
These mini hasselback potatoes are a pretty easy thing to deep fry. Use baby potatoes, new potatoes or jersey royal potatoes. All of them are teeny tiny so you can easily fry a whole batch of these after slicing the ridges in.
Sometimes I make decadent recipes healthier, and sometimes, like today, I go the other way and make something fairly harmless worse for you. #sorrynotsorry
If you don’t own / want to use a deep fryer, you can roast these. See the recipe card for details!
I imagine these would also work well in an air fryer. I don’t own one so I can’t say for sure, but if you do, give it a try and let me know how it works out!
How to serve your mini hasselback potato fries
- These are great with an aioli or vegan aioli dip of your choice… though if you’re a ketchup person I’m not going to stop you.
- Totchos! Cover a big tray of them with bean chili and other nacho toppings. (Try this vegan totchos recipe from Spabettie or the toppings for my tree hugger potato nachos!)
- Get fancy and toss them in truffle oil and rosemary for some delicious truffle fries.
Mini Hasselback Fries
Ingredients
- Mini baby potatoes
- Oil
- Salt, to taste
- Dips of your choice: aioli / vegan aioli, ketchup or guacamole
Instructions
- Part boil your baby potatoes for about 5 minutes, until they are softened but not totally cooked.
- Drain the potatoes and let them cool down for a while until they aren’t too hot to handle.
- Now slice ridges in them which extend about 2/3rds of the way down the potato. With potatoes this size, you will inevitably make some mistakes, cut some in half, lose some skins here and there- that’s all just fine. Don’t worry about it.
- Now heat the oil in your fryer to 180C / 350F. Submerge the potatoes in oil for 7-8 minutes, until they are super crispy. If you’re making a lot, do them in batches- be careful not to crowd the frying basket.
I’ve seen many hasselback recipes.. but never cute little hasselback fries before! What a creative and delicious idea. I definitely have to make this.
How adorable! I’ve made hasselback potatoes, but the mini version is so fun!
Yep, I don’t know why but mini versions of things always make me so happy! (Even though I still eat too much – LOL).
These are brilliant! So creative and delicious, I bet!
Thank you so much! 🙂
Awesome recipe….. always wanted to fry hasselback potatoes…. nice mani tooo!!!!!!
Ah, great minds think alike! And thanks for the compliment on the mani- I did it myself so I was oh so proud 🙂
These are seriously the most adorable things I have ever seen! And they look so crispy and yummy.
Thank you so much! And as a total garlic addict, your blog name has immediately grabbed my attention! I am heading straight over 🙂
These little babies were great success at our dinner today, thanks for shareing:) I posted them in my blog too!
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Oh my gosh these are too adorable!! This might sound crazy but they remind me of tiny armadillos haha! I will definitely try these, the fam would love them for sure. I don’t often fry things so thanks for including the roasting instructions! Pinned!
OMG these are just the cutest! My kids would gobble them ALL up!
Wow so easy and cute too. Such a simple recipe. I am going to try that.
Oh my gosh these are too adorable!! This might sound crazy but they remind me of tiny armadillos haha! I will definitely try these, the fam would love them for sure. I don’t often fry things so thanks for including the roasting instructions! Pinned!
OMG these are just the cutest! My kids would gobble them ALL up!
Oh my goodness, these are too cute! Such a fun way to serve potatoes!
What a fun appetizer! These will sure disappear fast!
Oh my goodness, these are too cute! Such a fun way to serve potatoes!
Wow so easy and cute too. Such a simple recipe. I am going to try that.
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Cooking times completely wrong. Even doubling the deep fry time yielded darkened potatoes with raw insides. Unless you’re using some kind of micro baby potato, avoid. Sorry!
I’m sorry for your experience. They were pretty tiny potatoes, not all potatoes labelled as baby potatoes would be that small. I beleive they’d be sold in the supermarket as mini baby potatoes – it depends where you live too and what varieties are available. I will amend the recipe to make things a little clearer.