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What’s better than French fries?
March 19, 2007 | 25 Comments
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.
Filed Under: french-fries, low-fat, oven-fries, Potato, russet-potato, vegan recipes, vegetarian recipes
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25 Comments
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
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!
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!
Beautiful photo Bee! Who doesn’t love Fries girl!Baking and making light fries is the best:))
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.
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?
My Son loves french fries but I could never make it crispy. Nice recipe. will do it for my Son. thanks
cheers
sharmi
This is my winter time snack favorite, sorta’ guilt free
)and arbi/taro (Sailu, isn’t that Yumm) before, besides sweet potatoes-will try turnips this time.
I have used this method with mooli (Manisha, its delish-Try it, NOW), carrots (Aww, Anita-its not an animal
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!
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
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.
I love fries..and ur version of baking them sounds so yummy and healthy..Shall def. give them a shot..
Swaps
Q: what better than french fries?
A: nothing:)
this is yum and so is the same thing with sweet potatoes.
shaheen, next week it’ll be sweet potatoes at jugalbandi. – bee
what made me open this site in front of my daughter ..she’s crying that she wants the fries …
riya has good taste. – bee
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!
I used arvi/arbi the other day. With salt, paprika, dash of lemon. Yum it was.
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.
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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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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Hi Bee,Jai
Was looking for baked fries recipe and thought your blog must have it and indeed. I will try these soon as my husband got a huge bag of organic potatoes from Trader Joes which will start sprouting soon and I have read somewhere that sprouted potatoes are not to be eaten. Looks like readers of your blog have tried baking all kinds of root vegetables. Now, has anyone tried baking kale, I saw kale chips in whole Foods, coated with cheddar. I wonder if that can be done at home. It totally was one of those things which makes you feel why didn’t I think of it!.
very similar to what we did with cauliflower leaves once. try it. should be good with some lemon pepper seasoning.
-Jai
your cauliflower leaves three ways was a fun post! I make patra and never thought of using anything other than arbi leaves. Will give give it a go soon but will be kale or swiss chard etc because I have never seen cauliflower leaves even in our farmers market. For kale leaves I was looking for baked version.The ones in whole foods were two whole crispy leaves sealed in a plastic bag and about $6. The leaves are thicker near the stem and thinner on the edges so baking whole will have burnt edges and maybe crispy center so wanted to know if anyone has tried baking them and knows exactly when they crisp up and then not burn them, even if you cut them up in pieces.
Baked french fries turned out great. Thank you!.
we have made baked kale chips. about 10 mins at 350 should do it.
bee