Potatoes O'Brien is a dish of
pan-fried potato
The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...
es along with red and green
bell pepper
The bell pepper (also known as sweet pepper, paprika, pepper, capsicum or, in some parts of the US midwest, mango) is the fruit of plants in the Grossum Group of the species ''Capsicum annuum''. Cultivars of the plant produce fruits in diff ...
s and onion. The potatoes and the bell peppers are fried (varying according to taste) and are served hot. The origin of the dish is disputed.
The dish has been claimed to originate in the early 1900s
from a
Boston
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restaurant known as Jerome's
and from a
Manhattan
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restaurant known as Jack's during the same time period.
Variations
A variation of potatoes O'Brien includes bacon in the dish.
Potatoes O'Brien can be seasoned many different ways, typically with
black pepper
Black pepper (''Piper nigrum'') is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about in diameter ...
,
paprika
Paprika is a spice made from dried and ground red peppers, traditionally ''capsicum annuum''. It can have varying levels of Pungency, heat, but the peppers used for hot paprika tend to be milder and have thinner flesh than those used to produce ...
,
salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as r ...
and
garlic powder.
See also
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Hash browns, the shredded potato dish
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Home fries, the simple chunked potato preparation
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Lyonnaise potatoes, pan-fried potatoes from French cuisine
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Pyttipanna, chopped potatoes mixed with meat and onions from the Nordic countries
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List of brunch foods
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List of potato dishes
References
Fried potato
American vegetable dishes
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