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What’s better than French fries?

March 19, 2007 |

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Baked French ‘fries’.

This easy peasy recipe works with a host of winter and root veggies - turnips, sweet potatoes, parsnips, maybe even carrots.


Hardware
1 stove
1 big pot
1 oven
1 baking sheet
1 clean tea towel

Software
1 russet potato
water
salt
spices
2 tablespoons oil (3 T if your spud looks like King Kong)

Method
1. Scrub, wash and dry the potato. Peeling is optional.

2. Put a pot of water on the stove to boil. Salt it. When it starts to come to a boil, cut the potato into french fries. Drop the pieces in the water and cook for 3-4 minutes, no more. We’re looking for half-cooked. Undercooked is better than overcooked.

3. Preheat the oven to 475F.

4. Put the potato pieces on the tea towel and gently roll them around.

5. Put the oil on the baking sheet, without a liner. Add the salt and spices of your choice. (We used Mrs. Dash salt-free lemon pepper seasoning, cayenne, coriander and cumin)

6. With your fingers, gently roll the potato pieces in the spice mix until they are kind of evenly coated.

7. Bake for 15 minutes, then mix them around once more and bake for 10-15 minutes.

Serve with Kicked-up Ketchup.

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20 Comments so far

  1. sailaja on March 20, 2007 12:51 am

    Oh! I love this easy peasy healthy french fries. And that pic makes it all the more alluring.:)

    I guess plaintain would be good too but I’d love to try taro root(chaama dumpa).

    i love, taro. try it sailu, and post it. i’d like to prepare it too. - bee

  2. Anita on March 20, 2007 2:23 am

    Yes, carrots too. I did this with carrots this (past) Thanksgiving (and blogged). Baked carrot is a totally different animal, err..vegetable! Very yum. But potato is king!

  3. Trupti on March 20, 2007 5:07 am

    Ah yes….the royal Spud. How I Love him…. I make these Fries too with regular and sweet potatoes..but I use Olive oil and a little bit of rosemary along with other spices…gives it a wonderful flavor. Your fries look very tempting in that blue bowl!

  4. Asha on March 20, 2007 5:54 am

    Beautiful photo Bee! Who doesn’t love Fries girl!Baking and making light fries is the best:))

  5. Manisha on March 20, 2007 9:31 am

    My neighbor makes this with a medley of roots: the turnips taste the best! He uses parsnips, carrots, sweet potatoes and I remember urging him to try daikon as well. I like daikon even though it is so much larger than our Indian muli and not as sharp.

    yes, yes, yes. turnips are the best.

  6. Manasi on March 20, 2007 9:31 am

    WOW! both for the fries ad the snap! Wish i cud take such neat and clear and b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l snaps!!!!!

    you can, manasi. what camera do you use?

  7. sharmi on March 20, 2007 11:37 am

    My Son loves french fries but I could never make it crispy. Nice recipe. will do it for my Son. thanks

    cheers
    sharmi

  8. musical on March 20, 2007 1:15 pm

    This is my winter time snack favorite, sorta’ guilt free :)
    I have used this method with mooli (Manisha, its delish-Try it, NOW), carrots (Aww, Anita-its not an animal ;))and arbi/taro (Sailu, isn’t that Yumm) before, besides sweet potatoes-will try turnips this time.

    But, please try chatpata beet-root chips ladies, if you can. Sweet it is, spicy you make it :) Its hevenly with lemon salt, chilli peppers and oregano!

  9. Cynthia on March 20, 2007 1:52 pm

    Nice going Bee - as usual! What camera do you use? I use a Canon EOS Digital Rebel/EOS 300D Digital. I’m currently looking into purchasing some macro lens.

    That’s the same that we use. This was taken with a 50 mm f/1.4. Don’t own a macro but have taken couple pix with lens reversal - will write about that sometime — Jai

    hang on, hang on, jai’s got a macro-like fix for 8 dollars. save your 1000 bucks. or send them to me. we hardly use the macro thingy.- bee

  10. Cynthia on March 20, 2007 2:39 pm

    Bee, Jai, guess what? You’ve inspired me. Currently in the oven is my french fries! lol. Instead of a spice mix, I minced some fresh rosemary. Will take a pic when they come out of the oven and post on my blog with a link to you! Thanks for the inspiration.

  11. Swapna on March 20, 2007 3:18 pm

    I love fries..and ur version of baking them sounds so yummy and healthy..Shall def. give them a shot..
    Swaps

  12. sia on March 20, 2007 3:36 pm

    Q: what better than french fries?
    A: nothing:)

  13. mallugirl on March 20, 2007 4:10 pm

    this is yum and so is the same thing with sweet potatoes.

    shaheen, next week it’ll be sweet potatoes at jugalbandi. - bee

  14. Priya on March 20, 2007 6:00 pm

    what made me open this site in front of my daughter ..she’s crying that she wants the fries …

    riya has good taste. - bee

  15. Meeta on March 23, 2007 8:04 am

    Yes baked is certainly much better. Actually my little one prefers these to the fried variety. We normally use potatoes, sweet potatoes and kohlrabi and make dip creations for our weekend movie sessions. Great pic BTW!

  16. Manisha on March 24, 2007 4:19 pm

    I used arvi/arbi the other day. With salt, paprika, dash of lemon. Yum it was.

  17. InjiPennu on March 25, 2007 10:09 pm

    No oil? No brushing of oil on the baking tray? Really?

    This looks too good!

    There’s 2T oil in the recipe to just lightly coat.

  18. Hejji on July 10, 2007 9:52 pm

    Wow, I decided to try these, because I _love_ fries, I seem to always have potatoes, and I don’t own a fryer or have cash to go out and buy fries.

    Ah, but they are so great

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  20. shondell on April 11, 2008 8:20 am

    i love ur recipe and the pic is beautiful the sight alone woke up my appetite i sure will try it i am a lover of potatoes thanks a million

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