At first glance, it seems that cooking french fries is not difficult. Peeled, chopped, thrown into boiling oil, and you're done. But even here there are secrets and little tricks. To make the pieces tasty and super-crispy, it is important to cut the potatoes correctly, prepare them for frying, select the temperature and salt in time.

French fries: the basics

What kind of potato to choose?

Low-starch varieties are best for making popular fast food. Pieces of high-starchy potatoes will stick together when frying, crumble and break, and quickly soften. Choose large and mature tubers, preferably oblong in shape, without deep eyes, green skin and other defects. Young potatoes are categorically not suitable, they are not yet ripe, not dense enough and do not have the desired taste.

Choice of frying oil

Refined oil is suitable for deep-frying, that is, purified, odorless. When heated to high temperatures, it does not smoke as much as unrefined. In this case, you can choose the type of oil at your discretion. In addition to sunflower, refined olive or corn oil is suitable, each of which will give the dish a special flavor.

What is the best dish to cook in?

If you do not have a special fryer, then you can use a saucepan, a deep pan made of steel or cast iron. Doesn't fit enamelware or with a thin bottom. It is most convenient to immerse a portion of potatoes in boiling oil in a special basket made of thin wire. If you do not have such a device, then take a wide slotted spoon.

Temperature regime

The American way of cooking french fries involves frying potato wedges in one step at a temperature of 180-190 degrees. Approximate cooking time for one serving is 7-8 minutes from the moment of laying in boiling oil.

Total cooking time: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Yield: 3 servings

Cooking

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    First of all, you need to peel and wash the potatoes. You can take any quantity, based on the number of eaters. As a rule, 3 tubers are used for 1 serving. It is desirable that the potatoes be large (or at least medium-sized, but not small), then the slices will turn out to be long, like in McDonald's - french fries will be convenient to take with your hands and dip into sauces.

    I cut the peeled tubers into oblong sticks. Don't cut too thin or the fries will burn quickly. The optimal thickness of the slices is about 1 cm. With such a cut, you will get a dense, fried crust on top, and a pleasant crumbly pulp inside. It is very important that the pieces are approximately the same in weight and size, then they will all cook evenly. Try to make them more or less the same so that there is no such thing that one part is already fried, and the other is still raw.

    Next, the potatoes must be washed - this will save them from excess starch, which sticks the slices together. I washed the potato straws in cold water, changing it 3-4 times until it became transparent. But don't soak the potatoes too long! Otherwise, it will absorb a lot of moisture, which will prevent the fries from frying properly, it will turn out to be unnecessarily watery.

    To remove the remaining water from the surface, I dried the potatoes on a cotton towel (carefully). This stage is very important. Drying will save the slices from unnecessary moisture, they will immediately seize with a deep-fried crust, and most importantly, the oil will not foam and “shoot”.

    It remains to fry the french fries - at home, if there is no deep fryer, you can get by with a saucepan or pan - choose a small and narrow one so that less oil is consumed. Refined oil is suitable for frying. Oil will need about 500 ml (or more). It must be heated very strongly, up to 180-190 degrees. To check if it is hot, drop in one slice of potato - if it immediately starts frying, hissing and bubbling, and not sinking to the bottom, then the oil is heated properly. Otherwise, continue heating for another 5-10 minutes.

    In boiling oil, you need to spread the chopped potatoes in portions - always small, about the size of a good male handful. French fries in oil should float freely. If you load too much, then it will not fry, but stew.

    Approximately the first 2-3 minutes from the moment the first batch is laid, the potatoes will sizzle and foam a lot - this normal reaction, moisture is actively evaporated. The fire does not need to be reduced, continue to fry, lightly shaking the pan for a more even distribution of oil.

    After a couple of minutes, the amount of bubbles and foam will noticeably decrease, and the potato slices will begin to harden and blush.

    Now you can track the time - french fries will be ready in about 5 minutes.

    finished product I take it out of the pan with a slotted spoon and transfer it to a paper towel to remove excess fat. And immediately lay the next batch in deep fat.

    Salt potatoes should be immediately before serving (the longer the slices interact with salt, the softer they become). It is best to use fine "extra" salt, the amount is freely adjustable to taste. In addition, mayonnaise, ketchup, sweet and sour, cheese or mustard sauce. Happy crunch!

Many people love this particular type of potato. Because it differs from other forms of food in its special taste and aroma. We will teach you how to cook the popular French fries dish in your home kitchen.

In addition to these spices, you can add your favorite seasonings, depending on your taste preferences.

Ingredients:

  • potatoes - 4 pieces;
  • sunflower oil- 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • salt - 2 pinches;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • paprika (ground) - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Cooking:

  1. In a deep bowl you need to make a marinade. To do this, pour oil into it. Add salt and ground paprika.
  2. Peel the garlic and crush with a press.
  3. Peel the potatoes and rinse them in cold water.
  4. Cut potatoes into thin slices. The approximate width of the straw is 0.8–1 cm.
  5. Drain potatoes on paper towel to remove moisture.
  6. Put the dried potatoes in the bowl with the marinade.
  7. Mix everything and wash the potatoes with your hands so that the spices are better absorbed.
  8. Lay parchment on a baking sheet. Put pickled potatoes on it. The slices must not touch. Then the dish will cook better. It is not necessary to grease the form, because the marinade contains oil.
  9. Put the french fries in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
  10. That's all! You managed to make french fries in the oven. Serve it with your favorite sauce.

in the microwave

Composition of components:

  • potatoes - 2 pieces;
  • salt and a mixture of peppers - to taste;
  • non-aromatic oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Cooking:

  1. Peel, wash and cut potatoes.
  2. Dry it with a towel.
  3. Sprinkle potatoes with salt and pepper. Leave to marinate for 10-15 minutes. If you do not have a mixture of peppers, then use the black and red varieties of this spice.
  4. Arrange the potato slices on a glass dish. Leave a distance between them.
  5. Put the dishes in the microwave. Bake the dish for about five minutes at maximum power.
  6. After the specified time, turn the potato wedges over and send them back to the microwave. Bake for about 3-5 minutes. Keep an eye on cooking, otherwise the dish may dry out.
  7. French fries in the microwave are ready! Serve with dipping sauce and your favorite drinks.

Diet french fries without oil

Ingredients:

  • potatoes (young) - 6 pieces;
  • sweet paprika (ground) - to taste;
  • eggs (chicken) - 2 pieces;
  • ground pepper (black) - to taste;
  • salt - to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Peel and cut new potatoes into strips.
  2. Crack the eggs and separate the two egg whites. Yolks are not needed in this recipe.
  3. Beat egg whites until smooth.
  4. Add salt to proteins sweet paprika and pepper. Mix everything.
  5. Put the potatoes in a deep bowl and pour the egg marinade over it. Potatoes should be completely covered. Otherwise, the product will marinate unevenly.
  6. Preheat the oven to 210-220 degrees.
  7. Line a baking sheet with parchment and lay out the potatoes. Send it to the oven for 10 minutes.
  8. Now take out the form and pull out the parchment. Leave the potatoes to bake further, until golden brown. This will take about 5-10 minutes.

French fries in the fryer

To get even slices of potatoes, choose them of approximately equal size.

Ingredients:

Cooking:

  1. Peel the potatoes and cut into strips.
  2. Dry the vegetable component very carefully. In this recipe, an important condition is the absence of moisture.
  3. Preheat oil fryer to 150 degrees.
  4. Put the chopped potatoes in a basket and dip them in the oil for 3 minutes. Sunflower oil must be boiling hot.
  5. Now lay foil on a large dish. Put all the potatoes on it to cool slightly.
  6. Raise the temperature in the fryer to 180 degrees.
  7. Transfer the potatoes to the basket and put it back into the appliance.
  8. Fry until golden brown.
  9. Now put the potatoes back on the foil and sprinkle them with salt. You need to do this immediately, while it is still hot.
  10. The dish is ready. Now you can enjoy the perfect potato and treat your friends.

in a frying pan

Ingredients:

  • potatoes - 2 pieces;
  • ground black pepper - 1 pinch;
  • refined oil - 0.5 l;
  • salt - to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Remove the skin and cut the potatoes into thin strips.
  2. Prepare a large bowl or saucepan and pour cold water into it. Place the vegetable for 10 minutes. This is done so that the starch leaves and the potatoes turn out to be crispy.
  3. Dry it with tissue paper or paper towels.
  4. Now prepare a thick-walled pan. The smaller its diameter, the less oil is required.
  5. When the pan is hot, pour in the oil.
  6. Place potatoes in boiling oil. Let it fry for about 10 minutes. ruddy crust- This is a clear sign of readiness.
  7. Now spread the finished slices on napkins. They absorb unwanted fat.
  8. Sprinkle the top of the potatoes with salt and pepper. Serve hot with your favorite sauce.

Several sauce options for the finished dish

Sour cream garlic

Ingredients:

  • sour cream - 0.2 kg;
  • hard cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • dill - 50 grams;
  • garlic - 3 cloves;
  • salt - to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Pour sour cream into a deep container.
  2. Peel the garlic, crush it with a special device. Transfer it to sour cream.
  3. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater and add it to the garlic mixture.
  4. Chop the dill very finely. Put it in the sauce.
  5. Add to sour cream sauce salt and mix everything. Now you need to cook fries and serve everything together.

Tomato sauce

Ingredients:

  • Provencal herbs- 2 pinches;
  • soy sauce- 2 teaspoons;
  • tomato paste - 0.15 l;
  • paprika - 1 teaspoon;
  • balsamic vinegar (grape) - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
  • hops-suneli - 1 pinch.

Cooking:

  1. Pour the tomato paste into the bowl.
  2. Add dry seasonings (paprika, Provence herbs and suneli hops) to it.
  3. Pour in the balsamic vinegar to the sauce.
  4. Now add to the main mass - soy sauce. Mix everything. The perfect accompaniment to french fries is done.

Cheese sauce

Ingredients:

  • processed cheese - 0.1 kg;
  • starch - 10 g;
  • dried dill - 2 teaspoons;
  • cream (can be replaced with milk) - 0.2 l;
  • basil and salt - to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Pour 100 ml of cream and knead a pack of processed cheese in them.
  2. Dissolve starch in 100 ml of cream.
  3. Put the cheese mass on a minimum fire. When it warms up, add starch in small portions. Mix everything and cook until the sauce thickens.
  4. Add dill, basil and salt to the cheese mass. Mix everything.
  5. Cheese sauce is ready! Transfer it to a convenient container and serve.

In a slow cooker

Ingredients:

  • potatoes - 0.5 kg;
  • seasoning for french fries - to taste;
  • refined oil - 1 l;
  • salt - 1 teaspoon.

Cooking:

  1. Wash and cut potatoes into strips.
  2. Soak it in cold water for 15 minutes to remove the starch. Then dry with paper towels.
  3. Pour a liter of oil into the multicooker. It must be odorless so that the taste of the finished dish is not interrupted.
  4. Set the program "frying".
  5. After a quarter of an hour, the oil should boil, now you can spread the dried potatoes.
  6. It will take about 10-15 minutes to prepare. The exact time depends on the power of the appliance.
  7. Place cooked potatoes on paper towels and sprinkle immediately. the right spices and salt.
  8. French fries in a slow cooker are ready! Serve it with your favorite refreshing drink.

A simple semi-finished product

Ingredients:

  • frozen potatoes - 0.5 kg;
  • salt and pepper - to taste;
  • olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • fresh herbs - a few branches;
  • garlic - 2 cloves.

Cooking:

  1. Defrost the semi-finished product a little.
  2. In a large bowl, mix: the main component, salt, crushed garlic and pepper.
  3. Finely chop the herbs and add them to the potatoes.
  4. Pour everything olive oil and stir.
  5. Place in a baking dish.
  6. Pierce it on top in two places so that the package does not burst.
  7. Send the vegetable to the microwave, at maximum power, for 10 minutes.
  8. Serve it along with the sauce.

How many calories are in french fries?

100 grams of this product contains:

  • proteins - 3.9 g;
  • carbohydrates - 38.1;
  • fats - 16.4 g;
  • calorie content -315 kcal.

It is worth noting that in store dishes or in fast food, the calorie content will be much higher. In addition, it is not known in what oil these potatoes were fried.

With the amazing taste of french fries, many first met in modern fast food restaurants. Who would have thought that regular potato wedges fried in oil would win the universal love of both adults and children. But today, a serving of crispy and fragrant potato strips raises doubts about the safety of the ingredients used, so most people try to make french fries at home. Indeed, home-cooked golden potatoes are safer and less expensive for the family budget, while still being just as delicious as in a restaurant.

French fries in deep fryer and slow cooker
The most convenient option for making french fries at home is a deep fryer. If you often have to cook fries, then get it at any hardware store. Fortunately, it is not expensive, from 700 rubles, and the cooking process itself is greatly simplified:
  1. Prepare the potatoes: peel, rinse, cut into thin sticks and rinse again.
  2. Lay out the straw raw potatoes on a towel and pat dry.
  3. Pour odorless refined vegetable oil into a deep fryer and heat it to 180°C.
  4. Place part of the potato in a special sieve and deep-fry for 6-7 minutes.
  5. As soon as the straw becomes a pleasant golden color, remove the sieve and let the oil drain.
  6. Lay out the finished fragrant potatoes on paper towels to soak up excess oil. Then transfer to a wide dish and sprinkle with fine salt.
  7. Start frying the second batch of potatoes.
French fries can also be cooked in a slow cooker, even if it does not have a special mode and grid for this. You just need to pour vegetable oil into it and select the "Frying" or "Baking" mode. As soon as the oil heats up, you need to lower a portion of the prepared potatoes into it and fry for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally with a spatula. Once the potatoes are in the desired shape, remove them with a slotted spoon.

Cooking french fries in a frying pan or pot
If you do not have special equipment, this does not mean that you will not be able to feast on your favorite dish whenever you want. French fries can be cooked in a regular frying pan or saucepan. It is better to take a cast-iron frying pan, and the pan should be with a thick bottom, then ready meal turn out golden, crispy and delicious:

  1. Peel the potatoes, rinse and cut into strips, the thickness of which should be 7-10 mm. Put straws in cold water and leave for 15 minutes to remove excess starch. Then take it out and dry it well.
  2. Put a frying pan or pot on the stove, pour oil into it (about a liter) and turn on the burner on a power between high and medium.
  3. The oil should be hot enough. To check this, dip one stick into the oil. The oil around it should immediately begin to bubble and hiss.
  4. As soon as the oil is hot, lower some of the prepared potatoes and fry without leaving the stove and stirring occasionally.
  5. Put the finished potatoes with a slotted spoon on a paper towel, and then on a wide dish and sprinkle with salt and spices.
The ideal temperature for frying potatoes is 170-190°C. Therefore, you can purchase a special thermometer to measure it. A special potato rack that fits into a pot, which can be purchased at a cookware store, will also facilitate cooking.

oven baked french fries recipe
The method is available to every housewife and is good in that cooking french fries in the oven significantly saves vegetable oil consumption, but the potatoes themselves fry a few minutes longer. If the oven is equipped with only lower heating (for example, gas), then the potatoes will have to be mixed once or twice during cooking:

  1. Peel the potatoes, rinse and cut into strips of the desired thickness. Rinse again and dry thoroughly.
  2. Turn on the oven and set the temperature to 250°C.
  3. Add 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil to a bowl with potatoes and mix well.
  4. Once the oven has heated up to desired temperature Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and arrange the potatoes in a single layer on it.
  5. Place the baking sheet in the oven for 20 minutes, during which time the potatoes will acquire a golden hue.
It is best to salt already cooked potatoes. It is better to use the finished dish immediately, otherwise the french fries will no longer be crispy. Instead of butter, you can use beaten egg white, then french fries will turn out to be less high-calorie and safer. You can also treat children with such potatoes.

If you really want your favorite potatoes, but there is no desire to prepare, then you can buy frozen and even already fried sticks and heat them in the oven for 20 minutes. The frozen product also produces very tasty and golden french fries, but a kilogram pack of frozen potatoes costs an average of 3-5 times more than a kilogram of regular potatoes.

French fries are what many people go to McDonalds for because they are so crispy and delicious that it seems impossible to repeat such a dish at home. French fries - hearty and appetizing dish with very simple recipe. However, the preparation still has some nuances that must be taken into account, otherwise it will turn into an ordinary fried potato.

The dish is good because it can be used both as a side dish and as an independent dish with various sauces. . most popular, of course, is ketchup. However, you can use both cheese and garlic Sause.

How to cook french fries at home? classic recipe cooking dishes are potatoes, vegetable oil and salt. For 500 g of potatoes, you need a liter of oil, it will be enough for the pieces to get their amazing golden color and evenly fry, getting a crisp . When selecting products in a recipe it is important to consider the following:

  • Young potatoes are not suitable for cooking, as they fall apart. There is information that networks fast food use special potatoes of elite varieties. At home, you can use any potato that is suitable for frying.
  • Vegetable oil must be refined and deodorized, and must be of high quality. Some recipes allow the use of other types of vegetable oil - corn, rapeseed and olive. It should be taken into account that the dish gets the smell of the oil used.

French fries in a pan

Many people believe that french fries cannot be cooked without a deep fryer and a lot of oil, but this is not entirely true. If there is good frying pan, you can cook a dish on it. The main thing is to cut the potatoes into equal pieces with a width of at least 1 cm and rinse, then put on a paper towel. How much oil should be poured into the pan? so that the potatoes are fried in it evenly. Before putting in the pan, it is necessary to heat it up well. The pan must be deep with a thick bottom, cast iron or steel.

French fries at home in a pan

How to cook french fries at home in a pan? For this, it is necessary to perform the following actions:

How to make french fries at home

How to cook potatoes fries at home? The dish can also be prepared at home, while it will be more useful, as stabilizers and flavor enhancers are added to it in fast food restaurants. Most often, potatoes are cooked in a deep fryer and in the microwave.

For microwave oven potatoes are prepared in the same way as for a pan - they are washed, left for a while in cold water, then laid out on a towel to dry. After that, the potatoes are laid out on a plate, in which they are poured with vegetable oil and salted. It is important that the pieces do not touch each other, this is the only way they will bake evenly. You need to cook French fries in the microwave at maximum power in two stages. After the dish is baked in the oven for 4-6 minutes, the pieces will need to be turned over to the other side and set again for the same time.

French fries are easier to cook in a deep fryer. The main thing is that the potatoes are properly prepared and that they are lowered at the very moment when the deep-fryer warms up to 170-190 degrees. Usually 10-15 minutes is enough for this. Deep-frying should not boil, this means that the vegetable oil is very hot, and this can affect the final result. If the potatoes dipped into the oil immediately began to fry, then the deep fryer is heated enough.

During frying, as before, potatoes should never be salted. This is due to the fact that if you add salt during cooking , the pieces may start to absorb excess moisture and soften. If you salt to, then it will quickly lose its shape and get the usual fried potatoes. Many people recommend adding animal fat to vegetable oil. This is acceptable, but only before the laying of potatoes begins. Fry potatoes in deep fat for no more than 5 minutes.

Love delicious, crispy outside, soft inside McDonald's-like french fries, but don't know how to fry and make them right at home? Then this article is for you. I will show you how to cook this popular side dish in your kitchen quickly and easily.

How to make french fries at home in a pan

Kitchen appliances: cutting board and knife, deep bowl, paper towels or napkins, frying pan, spatula, wide flat plate.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

  1. Wash and peel 1 kg potatoes. Cut the tubers into slices 6-7 mm thick.
  2. Then cut these plates into strips, again, 6-7 mm. Try to keep it about the same size, then the potatoes will fry evenly.

  3. After you have carefully cut the straws, rinse it under running cold water in order to remove the starch formed after cutting. Then the potatoes will not stick together during frying.

  4. Place a paper towel in the bottom of a deep bowl. Put the washed potatoes in there, and pat them on top with another paper towel to remove any remaining water.

  5. Place the pan on medium fire warm up. Pour refined sunflower oil into it. It needs so much that it covers the bottom by 6-8 mm (the amount depends on your pan, on average, about half a liter).

  6. When the oil is hot enough this is an important point, it must be boiling), lay out a batch of potatoes.

    It is important that it does not immediately begin to cook, namely, to fry in oil. Place enough potatoes to cover the bottom of the pan. Don't post it all at once, it won't work. Fry it in several stages.



  7. Turn over with a spatula while frying so that the potatoes brown evenly on all sides.

  8. Lay a paper towel on a large flat plate and lay out a batch of cooked potatoes. The towel will absorb excess grease.

  9. Transfer the potatoes to a deep bowl, season with salt and shake a couple of times to mix well.

You can also cook excellent, and no less tasty.

How to serve the dish and with what

There is probably no wrong way to present it. it universal dish, which is offered to the table with the most different sauces based on mayonnaise, sour cream and tomatoes. As a side dish, it goes well with stewed vegetables, any kind of meat or fish: steaks, fried fish, barbecue wings, chicken chops. Great addition to a salad dish. fresh vegetables or vegetable slices.

Video recipe for cooking french fries at home

On this video detailed recipe described above. Watch for a better understanding of how to make french fries at home without a deep fryer.

  • Be sure to rinse the peeled chopped straws in water to wash off the starch. It is desirable that the water is as cold as possible (you can add ice cubes).
  • Before frying, blot the straws with a paper towel or napkin to remove excess moisture. It must be dry when you put it in hot oil.
  • To keep the potato slices crispy, remove them directly from the pan onto paper towels to get rid of excess oil.
  • No need to salt potato slices during cooking. Salt is added to the already prepared dish.

cooking options

There are other ways to fry french fries. Here is one of them: put a small portion of prepared potatoes in boiling oil on the bottom of the pan, cover it with a lid. When it is browned on one side, open it, turn it over to the other and fry again under the lid for another minute. Then open and cook for a few minutes without a lid. Potato strips fried in this way will be crispy.

Another way to prepare the famous side dish: fry the slices first in oil heated to a temperature of 150 ° C for about 5 minutes (also in small portions). Blot off excess fat and let potatoes cool completely. After 10 minutes, fry it a second time, now in boiling oil, 2 minutes. Drain on a paper towel, transfer to a tall bowl, season with salt, shake a few times to mix, and you're done.

If you are interested in how to cook frozen french fries, then everything is very simple here. In a frying pan, it is fried in small portions in hot oil for several minutes on each side. Lay the toasted slices on a paper towel. Its method of cooking in the oven is interesting. Simply, without defrosting, put the potatoes from the bag on a dry baking sheet, without oil, and place in a preheated oven. In the oven, it is baked at a temperature of 210 ° C for about 20 minutes. Turn potatoes over with a spatula after 10 minutes. Remove from the oven, season with salt and it's ready to serve.

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I hope you got delicious, tender, mouth-watering crispy french fries, as intended. Send your comments and additions to my recipe. Cook with love.