It sounds like a strange combination, but hear me out. Fried potato cubes and basil pesto, mixed with copious amounts of parmesan cheese and beef crackling. You use the fat from the beef crackling to fry the potatoes in, the basil is grown in your own garden. The taste of fried potato and basil pesto, it is weird but it just works.

It starts with growing copious amounts of basil in your own garden. I always wondered what to do with all my basil, and then I learned how to make basil pesto. Having learned this, the new problem was, how to get rid of all my pesto! And then I found out you can use it on chips or fries. And I was a bit skeptical at first, but somehow it just worked.

In this post, I will help you understand my strange mind by sharing with you this awesome recipe! I hope you will make it for yourself.

Ingredients

This recipe uses some strange ingredients, but you can just swop it out.

I used:

• Basil pesto,
• Beef short rib crackling,
• Fried potato cubes, and
• Extra parmesan cheese!

Rendering Fat

I started by rendering the fat out of some beef short rib fat that we did not use. The crackling in from the process is awesome and crunchy. It pairs so well with the potato which I fried using the rendered-out fat.

You will be left with crispy and crunchy crackling!

Fry the potato

I then cubed a potato into small blocks and shallow fried them in the beef fat I just rendered out.

I fried them until they were crispy.

Mix mix mix mix!

I then just mixed everything together. I started by mixing the potato and crackling and some salt and pepper.

I then added the freshly made basil pesto that I made. I added some extra parmesan cheese as well!

Mix it well.

There you have it. A very strange creation but a very delicious one. I loved the taste of the crackling and basil pesto as well.

It may really sound like a strange combination, but if you like basil pesto, this will surely be one of those recipes you will crave.

Postscriptum

I hope you try this, especially with some homegrown veggies and leafy greens.

The photographs are my own, taken with my iPhone. The recipe is also something I have made for myself over the years countless times. I craved some yesterday, and thus I made some! I hope you are well. Happy cooking!