Excellent chips are impossible to do without a deep pan. (Air Fryers1 and oven chips2 produce a pale imitation of the real thing.) This recipe is exciting with minimal effort and low, low cost achieved without special equipment.
Ingredients
Two eggs
One potato
Paprika3 There’s all sorts of paprika. Buy to suit your taste and pocket
Technique
Peel and thin slice potato (Thin means translucent)
Splash oil into a cereal bowl
Swoosh slices with fingers until soaked
Get another bowl and whip the eggs into an even liquid (a drop of milk helps)
Heat up frying pan (Fire alarms can go off)
Pour potato into pan. Spread until surface is covered
When brown turn over and repeat
Sprinkle paprika evenly across potato
Pour egg. Tipping pan to reverse the flow to the edge
Split the egg and chips into quarters (It’s easier to get out).
Outcome
Tasty egg and chips where ketchup is redundant.
Finally
Do what you’re comfortable with washing up wise
Notes
1 Top 10 Air Fryers of 2023 – Best Reviews Guide
2 Sainsbury’s Steak Cut Chips 1.5kg | Sainsbury’s (sainsburys.co.uk)
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