Crispy roasted and well-fried fries can be cooked at home on their own. The taste of the dish in the end will turn out no worse than in the most popular fast food cafes. The following is a few successful recipes that will tell you how to make french fries at home.

French fries - classic deep fryer recipe

To greatly simplify the process of preparing the dish in question, it is worth using a deep fryer. Of the products required: a lot of odorless vegetable oil, 600 g of potatoes, salt and any aromatic herbs to taste.

  1. Potato tubers are thoroughly washed, peeled and cut into thin strips. Each slice needs to be thrown into a colander before frying and dried with a clean towel so that drops of liquid do not shoot in fat.
  2. Oil is poured into a special device, and its temperature is set to a mark of 160 degrees.
  3. When the liquid is heated to the indicated temperature, you can immerse potato sticks into it using a special metal mesh. The oil around the potato should boil actively.
  4. To prevent straws from sticking together, it is better to fry them in miniature portions.
  5. The finished dish is laid out on a paper towel and salted.

Selected seasonings are poured exclusively on the finished fried product, otherwise they will start to burn strongly in oil and spoil the whole process.

Recipe for cooking in a pan

If the hostess didn’t have a deep fryer, even without such a device it’s easy to cook crispy potato sticks. You will need to use an ordinary frying pan and you need to prepare: 2 large potatoes, 350 ml of vegetable oil, table salt and ground pepper to taste.

  1. The tubers are washed, peeled and cut into cubes, the width of which is not more than 1 cm.
  2. Further potatoes are soaked for several minutes in ice water, which will free it from excess starch. Then the slices are dried with a paper towel.
  3. In a deep thick-walled pan, vegetable oil is heated. Potato is immersed in it. The liquid should completely cover the vegetable.
  4. A small portion of the food is fried for no more than 12 minutes.

French fries sprinkled with salt, any spicy spices, pepper and served at the table.

Delicious side dish in a slow cooker

Even easier to cook the dish in question using a slow cooker. For this you need: 6 potato tubers, salt, 700 ml of high-quality sunflower oil.

  1. The potato is washed, peeled and cut into tiny cubes.
  2. Slices of the vegetable are steeped in salted water for about 20 minutes.
  3. In the same liquid, the potatoes are cooked for about 12 minutes.
  4. The water is drained, and the vegetable sticks are dried on a paper towel.
  5. In the "Baking" mode, the oil in the bowl of the multicooker is warming up well.
  6. Potatoes are laid out in boiling liquid and fried until a light golden crust appears.

A dish with ketchup or any tomato paste sauce is served.

Microwave french fries

This recipe for french fries is suitable for those who do not like to mess around in the kitchen for a long time. It remains only to choose the right sauce, and the dish (no worse than in a cafe) can be served for dinner. It is prepared from the following products: 650 g of potatoes, 4 tbsp. refined olive oil, fine salt, spicy seasonings.

  1. Potato after peeling is cut into thin sticks. Too thick slices will not be able to fry well in the microwave.
  2. The chopped vegetable is folded into a shallow container suitable for use in the device in question, sprinkled with salt and any selected seasonings. For example, ground paprika is great for treating.
  3. The dish is cooked for 2.5 minutes at maximum microwave power. Then the potato wedges are turned over, and the device turns on at the same time.

A hot treat is served.

How to cook in air grill at home?

It is interesting that for the preparation of homemade french fries, almost all devices that facilitate the life of the hostess are perfectly suitable. This is not only a microwave and a slow cooker, but also an air grill. Lean chefs will especially enjoy the fact that this recipe does not require the use of a huge amount of vegetable oil. In addition to 5 potato tubers, 3st will be used. l refined olive oil and a pinch of salt. How to cook french fries in an air grill is described below.

  1. The potato is peeled, washed, dried with a towel and cut into long longitudinal slices.
  2. The resulting straws are mixed well with salted olive oil. This should be done immediately before frying. It is best to oil small portions of potatoes, which in the next second will go to the grill. Otherwise, the vegetable will eventually give juice in a bowl and wash away an important oil film from the surface of the sticks.
  3. Potato straws are laid out on the middle grill.
  4. Cooking at high fan speed. The temperature should be 260 degrees.
  5. After 12 minutes, the vegetable sticks are flipped to the other side and again “fried” the same amount of time.

French fries will be an excellent side dish for any meat dish.

From the finished prefabricated

Today in any supermarket it is easy to find a semi-finished product - frozen potato sticks for cooking them in boiling oil. Using such a product, you can cook your favorite dish in record time. For this you need: a bag of frozen potatoes, 400 ml of vegetable oil, fine salt to taste.

  1. The first step is to completely defrost the cake mix. Moisture should not remain on the potato wedges, otherwise the oil will begin to hiss and spray strongly.
  2. To properly defrost ready-made french fries, the bag is dipped in warm water for 10-12 minutes.
  3. Next, the slices of the vegetable are laid out on a paper towel so that the latter absorbs all the moisture.
  4. It remains only to cook the dish in any convenient way - put it in a hot oil in a deep fryer or an ordinary frying pan.
  5. When the slices become golden from all sides, they are laid out on a paper napkin to remove excess fat and salt.

It is especially tasty to eat homemade french fries with a variety of spicy sauces.

Diet recipe

Surprisingly, even such a greasy and high-calorie, at first glance, side dish can be quite dietary. In this case, you will need to cook the potatoes in the oven without adding oil. In addition to 8 pieces of vegetable, will be used: 2 protein eggs, 1 tbsp. table salt, a pinch of black and red pepper, a large spoon of Italian herbs.

  1. Tubers are washed, cleaned, cut into cubes, each of which is dried with paper towels. You can use a special device for chopping potatoes or just a sharp knife.
  2. Squirrels are thoroughly beaten, salted, mixed with seasonings.
  3. Potato is sprinkled with egg mixture. After thorough mixing, the cubes are laid out on a baking sheet covered with parchment.
  4. A dish is prepared in an oven, heated to 200 degrees for about half an hour.

To avoid bonding, slices of potatoes should not touch each other.

What sauces are served with french fries?

There are a huge number of sauces that are ideal for fried potatoes in hot oil. Creamy, cheese, tomato and many others. Any of them can be cooked at home.

 

For example, for cheese-creamy sauce a handful of flour is fried in butter, then it is poured with heavy cream, salted and sprinkled with cheese. Together, the ingredients are cooked 5-7 minutes before thickening.

For tomato sauce, a couple of fresh tomatoes are peeled, cut into small cubes and simmer over low heat with tomato paste, chopped garlic and any spices.

 

Spicy garlic sauce is prepared on the basis of sour cream and mayonnaise. These two products are mixed in equal amounts, seasoned with granulated garlic, salt and pickled cucumber grated on the smallest grater.

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