Hash brown: grated soft potato, washed, squeezed twice around a salting, cooked as one big cake

Name: Hash brown: grated soft potato, washed, squeezed twice around a salting, cooked as one big cake
Ingredients: 2½ lb potatoes; cold water; 1½ tsp salt; black pepper

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Ingredients

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▶ 0:56

2½ lb potatoes

Peel the potatoes.

Choosing the softest potatoPeeling

▶ 1:46

cold water

Grate on the biggest holes of the grater straight into cold water.

Grating into cold water and washing off the starchGrating

▶ 2:12

In a big bowl, wash off the starch; drain through a sieve and rinse several times.

▶ 2:38

Squeeze out the water through cheesecloth set in a sieve, in batches, to the last drop.

Squeezing, salting, squeezing againSeasoning Read

▶ 2:58

1½ tsp salt

Rub in 1.5 tsp salt and let sit 5 minutes.

▶ 3:25

Squeeze the potato a second time to remove the water the salt has drawn out.

▶ 4:14

black pepper

Mix in black pepper (shallot or herbs optional).

Pepper and optional additions

▶ 4:34

Heat the biggest frying pan, add the potato in one batch, pack it down and shape it with a spoon.

Cooking covered, then uncovered

▶ 4:57

Cover and cook 12 minutes on medium-low heat until the side is slightly golden.

▶ 5:16

Flip, pack tight and cook the other side 12 minutes uncovered so it stays crunchy, until golden brown.