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Potato Chips

Also known as Nigerian Potato Chips (Irish Potato Fries)

Thick-cut fried Irish potatoes, the chips that sit next to fried chicken, gizzard and burger in every Nigerian eatery. Not plantain chips, which are already in the book.

Potato Chips, Nigerian cooking

Ingredients

  • 6 large Irish potatoes
  • Salt
  • Oil for deep-frying
  • Ketchup or pepper sauce, to serve

Method

  1. 01

    Peel the potatoes and cut into thick chips. Rinse until the water runs clearer, then pat very dry.

  2. 02

    Heat the oil. Fry in batches until just pale, lift out, then fry a second time until golden. Salt while hot. Serve with ketchup, fried chicken or a burger.

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