Best French Fries Recipe
This French fries recipe makes perfectly golden fries, fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside every time. Triple cooking process for fries or chips, boiling, first fry, and then second fry make for the perfect chip.
Ingredients
- 1 kg Maris piper potatoes
- 1 Sunflower oil for frying
Instructions
How to make the perfect fries
- Peel and chop the potatoes into lengths about 1cm thick.1 kg Maris piper potatoes
- Place the cut fries into a bowl of water, then place the bowl under a tap of running water for a few minutes. Soaking French fries helps to rinse off any starch.
Boiling your fries
- Next, add your chips into a saucepan of boiling water and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Once boiled drain and leave to cool for a few minutes while you heat up your oil ready for frying.
Deep frying your french fries
- The oil needs to be 170°C. Place your chips/French fries in the fryer basket and lower them into the oil. Fry for about 5 minutes or until the bubbles aren't so intense.1 Sunflower oil
- Raise the basket and leave the chips/French fries to drain. Before we double fry French fries wait for the oil to come back up to temperature (170°C) before dropping the basket back into the oil for the last fry.
- Fry for a further 5 minutes or until golden brown and crispy. Drain the oil, season with salt, and serve.
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Notes
When it comes to making fries timing is key if you over-boil or over-fry the results won't be as good. All cooking equipment varies in different ways as do all types of potatoes so. You will have to use this recipe as a guide and get the timing and temperatures perfect for your equipment or if you're using different varieties of potatoes.
Nutrition
Serving: 166gCalories: 542kcalCarbohydrates: 66gProtein: 7gFat: 23gSaturated Fat: 3gSodium: 10mgPotassium: 702mgFiber: 6gVitamin C: 33mgCalcium: 20mgIron: 1mg
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