healthy french fries

[homemom1fl]

My husband and kids love french fries I was wondering if anyone makes theirs from scratch using olive oil or coconut oil and bakes them in the oven. I was thinking of trying this and was looking for any input.
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Chris

[strivingforpr31]

Yes! Cut the potatoes into fries and lightly coat with olive oil and sea salt, or even pepper, cayene, whatever. Bake on a high heat in oven or broil. The hotter the crispier. We love these. We've tried these with sweet potatoes too which we liked.

[Katie]

Hi Chris,

We don't have fries often, but we make our own. Everybody loves them!

I use about 4 medium potatoes, cut like fries. I toss them in a ziploc with a little less than 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Mush it all around to semi-coat the potatoes.

I bake them for about 1/2 hour at 350. Turn them about halfway through the baking. They cook a little faster if you cut them thin. We tend to like ours more like steak fries.

Blessings,
Katie

[Katie]

Hey Tina!

This board is trying to make me think I'm bonkers. I do know the word for the measure that is equal to 3 teasthingys. I try to type it in and it comes up with "table-thingy"? ;D ;D

Edited: it doesn't like the word "spoon". You know, the third component of a place setting...fork, knife and _____.

[marcia]

Katie,
That's so funny! I was wondering why people were calling a tablespoon of something a tablesthingy! I was wondering if I was missing some sort of new fangled way of referring to it! LOL
I do believe that will not give us problems any more.
too funny.....

[Katie]

Very funny! ;D

At first I thought I had typed the word tablespoon incorrectly and wondered how in the world I came up with tablesthingy.

[Mom2boys]

That's weird. How about just using a T = tablespoon and t-teaspoon.

BTW- I do the same with my fries, but I throw some cracked pepper, Frontier all seasons salt and a couple T of flour in the bag. It makes a nice coating.

[dulcie]

i throw some parmesan cheese into a baggie too and coat them with that

[smfeet2001]

What is the best way to cut the potatoes into fries??

Thanks

Holly

[Katie]

This answer is coming from "She Who Doesn't Have Any Fun Kitchen Tools" .....I've used a plain old french fry cutter. Do you know what I mean? It's kind of a grid of wires attached to an oval shaped metal ring thing. It is kind of a pain, especially with really fresh potatoes that are on the hard side. If I'm in a hurry, I just use my trust knife and slice them into something resembling fries. Larger pieces = steak fries! ;D

[Paula]

Another oven fries question - what kind of pan do you use to make them crispy? I've used glass recently, and the fries were NOT crispy at all except for a few around the edges. I coat the potatoes with oil and salt and then put them in the oven.

What makes them crispy??

[Mom2boys]

I use my stone from Pampered Chef to make mine. I've never used glass, but I don't know why they wouldn't crisp on glass

[Tynes]

i use a cookie tin, you may need to flip your fries more often