The invention discloses fried dried water-chestnut and a making method of the fried dried water-chestnut. The water-chestnut is used as a raw material and added with the auxiliary ingredients including soybean oil, monosodium glutamate, salt, white sugar, spiced salt powder and the like. The method comprises the following steps of raw material checking and acceptance, husking, cutting into slices, preserving, basking and drying, frying, stirring, cooling and sterilizing, packaging and storage. The fried dried water-chestnut disclosed by the invention is delicious and tasty and tastes fragrant and crunchy.