Fried potatoes
From yesterday’s boiled potatoes, fried crisp in clarified butter with onions and bacon.
- Time
- 30 min
- Effort:
- easy
- Season
- all year
- vegetarian
- classic
- budget

Ingredients for 4 portions
1 kgpotatoes · cooked the day before
2onions
100 gstreaky bacon
3 tbspbutter
2 tbsprapeseed oil
1 tspcaraway seeds
to tastesalt
to tastepepper
The ingredients land on the shopping list as soon as the dish is in the week.
Possible allergens
Derived from the ingredients as they are typically composed.
- Milk (incl. lactose)
Please check allergens and intolerances yourself — on the packaging, at the bakery, at the butcher's. Recipes change, and a list like this cannot take responsibility for that.
Nutrition per portion
Estimates computed from the ingredient list — with 4 portions per recipe.
| Energy | 409 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 9.6 g |
| Fat | 19.3 g |
| Carbohydrates | 47.3 g |
| of which sugar | 4.8 g |
| Fibre | 4.1 g |
| Salt | 1.2 g |
Not counted because listed without a quantity: salt, pepper.
Computed with raw ingredients as bought. Cooking losses, peel, trimmings and what stays on the plate are not accounted for. Own dishes and ingredients “to taste” have no values.
Source: Max Rubner-Institut (2025), Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS) version 4.0, CC BY 4.0. The mapping of ingredients to BLS foods and the piece weights are the operator's own.
Estimates, not lab values — not a basis for medically prescribed meal plans.
Method
- 1
Peel the potatoes and cut into even slices, dice the bacon, slice the onions into rings.
- 2
Heat the fat in a large pan, add the potatoes in one layer, leave alone for 5 minutes.
- 3
Turn, add the bacon, onions and caraway, fry another 10 minutes, season.