Tacos De Papa (Fried Potato Tacos)

Submitted by natalie.navejar

"These are extremely easy, and soooo good."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 24 tacos

ingredients

• 6 large potatoes
• 113.39 g queso fresco (mexican crumbly cheese)
• 44.37 ml onions, chooped
• salt and pepper
• milk, if needed
• oil, for frying
• 2 dozen corn tortillas
• lettuce, julienned
• queso fresco, crumbled
• salsa

directions

1. Boil potatoes and peel. Heat oil for frying.
2. Mash potatoes with a masher and mix with onions and the 4 ounces of queso fresco. (if mixture is too thick, add a little milk. mixture should be a little lumpy, but should not be as creamy as mashed potatoes.) Season with salt and pepper.
3. Warm tortillas in microwave for about 15 seconds.
4. Spoon potato mixture into tortillas and fry until golden on both sides.
5. Serve and garnish with lettuce, queso fresco, and salsa.

Reviews

[Nunezn1]

Having Mexican parents my mom would make these for us... more so during lent. Every time we had company and we had this, people who make a weird face and say "potato tacos?" However; once they tried them there was no going back. My mom does them differently. potatoes (russet) garlic powder onion powder pepper grated cotija cheese and oaxaca cheese salt Mixed all those ingredients and leave potatoes a little lumpy. Heat up corn tortillas, put filling in and fry. Must eat hot. Once on your plate, mom would have a platter of lettuce or cabbage (whatever was available in the fridge), tomatoes, onion, sour cream or crema, and home made salsa made in a mortar. Simple and super inexpensive. The cheese makes the filling stick and not fall out as sometimes this tends to happen if you mash the potatoes when hot.

 

[Robyn]

My niece is dating a boy who's mom is from Mexico and she makes potato tacos and she sent 2 home for me once and I thought I had died and gone to heaven! Well these are very close, there is still something missing and she won't tell me! but these are very very good. My niece eats them like his family does, with mayonaise, I almost wonder if that is the missing ingredient in the potatoes. Thanks for posting this easy and really good recipe. My family has decided we prefer these over meat tacos!

 

[jackieliz]

Yummy and cost like $3 to feed my family of 4. I mashed about 1tbsp of lite mayo into the potatoes in lieu of milk and crisped them on my griddle with a touch of butter instead of frying.

 

[I Cook Therefore I]

We really liked these! I did this a little differently. We don't like corn tortillas so I just pan fried the mashed potatoes for a few minutes till crisp and browned and served on flour tortillas. We ate these with shredded cheddar, salsa, sour cream, and green onions. Great recipe for leftover potatoes thanks for sharing!

 

[seal angel]

I used left over mashed potatoes and put sir racha on top. Next time I will try little diced up potatoes. My husband looked at me and said, "Don't we have left over carna asada?" Told him to try it! He is meat and potatoe kinda guy.