Abstract: A process for preparing a frozen hash brown potato product including cooking raw potato slabs, cooling cooked potato slabs, cooling the cooked potato slabs to a temperature of approximately 40.degree. to 45.degree. F. and then immediately shredding the cooled potato slabs and forming the shredded material into cakes of a desired shape and size. With this method, the formed potato cakes are held together by the natural binding material of the potato, without the addition of other binding agents.