Potato Poppers Recipe
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Ingredients: 2-4 lbs potatoes
1lbs. green chili diced
1-1 1/2 Tbsp. minced garlic
1 dz. eggs separated (yolks' from whites)
flour
salt and pepper
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Directions:1. Boil potatoes with skins on low until fork tender. Don't break the skins during boil, broken skins means mushy potatoes. Peel and chunky mash potatoes. Not soft or gooey you want a firm sticky potato. Salt and pepper to taste.
2. Dice green chili. Can use more or less than a lb. to your taste. Salt and pepper to taste. Add minced garlic to taste as well.
3. Strain the potatoes and the green chili mixture separately to assure no extra water. Then mix together until green chili is evenly distribute through the potatoes.
4. Lay out wax paper or foil whatever you have and lightly flour it. Using a cookie/melon baller if you have one if not a spoon will work. Make round potato balls set on wax paper. When done making balls thoroughly coat balls with flour.
5. Separate 1 dz. eggs (take eggs out of the fridge at least 30 minutes before you want to work with them). Using a hand mixer, again if you have one, beat the egg whites into a tall meringue. Beat until they don't raise anymore. This will take a while. Keep beating meringue add 1 yolk at a time slowly to the meringue. Beat each yolk about 1 minute before adding the next yolk, until all yolks are added. Adding the yolks to fast will cause the meringue to fall.
6. In a large heavy skillet heat 1/2 to 1 inch of oil.
7. Pour a small amount of the eggs potato ball into the egg and coat. Carefully add potato balls to heated oil. Repeat. Turn poppers in oil until cooked evenly golden brown.
8. Remove from oil and drain on wire rack with paper towels under the rack to absorb the oil.
**This will be greasy if storing them for later (like there might be some left) place a paper towel in the container then add the poppers and cover with a paper towel. |
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Notes: This recipe goes back to dad's grandmother Chavez and possibly further. She called these Chili Relleno's but because they have no cheese and their made with potatoes I renamed them Potato Poppers. Alfi showed your dad this recipe which was never written down and there were no measuring this is our best guess as to how much of the ingredients' were used.
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