Good example of homemade fries. Not mine, they're always eaten before I can get the camera out.
Oh yes. Perfect homemade french fries. No, you don’t need fancy equipment or a lot of time. You just need some guidance. And I’m here to give it to you.
What you need:
- Saucepan
- Knife
- Potatoes
- Sunflower oil
Steps
- Fill the saucepan 2/3 with water and heat to the boil while you:
- Peel the potatoes.
- Cut them into french fries size.
- Boil the fries for 10 minutes. Should be almost eating ready in consistency. When done, let them dry on some paper.
- Pour out all the water of the saucepan and make sure it is 100% dry.
- Fill the saucepan with 1/2 with sunflower oil.
- Put the saucepan back on the heat. Keep a lid close in case of fire. Don’t use full heat, but above medium.
- Put in one potato slice as your control.
- If you have a thermometer that can take the heat and oil, make sure you stay around 180 degrees centigrade.
- When the control slice is golden, take it out and carefully put in the rest of your fries.
- Use tongs to lift out fries when they’re done. Or use a slotted spoon if you have one. Let them dry on some paper.
Tips:
- If you’re making a lot, finished fries can be kept at 200 degrees centigrade in your owen while you make the rest.
- Season with french fries spice mix or salt before serving. Serve with ketchup. Perfect with all kinds of meat or fish.
- Don’t settle for the tiny size of McDonald’s fries. Double that is a good start.
- Experiment with different sizes and forms. Creative fries are well received at parties.
- You can reuse the sunflower oil. Just let it cool down and pour it into an empty bottle. Be sure to filter out any leftovers of the fries.
Enjoy!
Tasty
Today I had an unexpected guest for dinner. I was in town shopping when a friend met me. After finishing shopping some flowers to my girlfriend, we went home to my place. My girlfriend arrived shortly after, and we decided to invite him to stay for dinner.
We was having pork steak again, and had enough steak for him also. But we didn’t have enough fries, so I decided to use the leftovers from my salad also. Still that didn’t seem enough, so I cooked some vegetables that everybody should have in their home: Potatoes, carrots, cauliflower and broccoli.
All this is cheap stuff that you can keep around for a while. It took a while to make, again mainly because of the fries and vegetables. 30-45 minutes.
Ingredients
- Pork steaks (1 or 2 per person, depending on the size)
- Vegetables (I used potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli)
- French fries
- Salad (I used lettuce, maize, onion and garlic dressing. You can ad for example cucumber, red pepper or anything else you like)
Recipe
Start with heating the oven (if you use French fries that you make in the oven) and boil up some water in a pot. While they heat up, prepare the fries and wash the vegetables. Put the fries in the oven and the vegetables in the pot when the oven is hot and the water boils. Start with the potatoes, as they need to boil longer than the other vegetables. If you use the same vegetables as me, the other vegetables are added just a few minutes at the end (while you finish frying the steak).
Cut the ingredients of the salad. When you have about 10-15 minutes left before the fries are done, start frying the steaks. Remember to spice (salt and black pepper is fine). When everything is done, just serve it. I didn’t ad the garlic dressing to the salad, as some prefer to eat the salad without dressing. I put the dressing, some ketchup and spices at the table together with the rest of the food.
Enjoy.
As always I am happy to get comments and suggestions to my recipes.
