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How to Make Crispy Hash Browns

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The trick to making crispy hash browns is to remove as much of the water from the potatoes as possible after grating the potatoes. You will be surprised by how much liquid you are able to squeeze out.

Remove the excess liquid from grated potatoes to make crispy hash browns. You can do this a several different ways:

1. Place the potatoes in a flour sack dish cloth or cheese cloth and twist until you have squeezed all the liquid out.

2. Place the grated potatoes in a colander and press the liquid out (I use an old fashioned wooden potato masher to do the pressing.

3. Use a Potato Ricer. Place grated potatoes into the ricer approximately one cup at a time and squeeze until you have removed all of the liquid.

Squeeze out the excess moisture to make crisy hasbrowns

I have found the Potato Ricer to be the most effective method and the colander method to be the least effective. However, even using a colander is better than not doing anything to remove the excess moisture to ensure that your hash browns are extra crispy.

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About Alea Milham

Alea Milham is the owner of Premeditated Leftovers and the author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scatch. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

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Welcome. I'm Alea!

On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.
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