Southern fried potatoes, also known as Southern style hash brown potatoes, or, simply soft fried potatoes, are cubed peeled russets, that are first steamed and then pan-fried in bacon drippings to crisp and turned, resulting in a tender inside, but with crispy outer edges. Literally every area of the country has some form of pan-fried potatoes. For those of us in the south, potatoes cooked with this method are sometimes known as a Southern style hash brown, mostly by commercial producers, because we’ve deep south dish just called them soft-fried potatoes.
