Hello
flowers!
Oven baked
potato fries are popular in the vegan world and when I first saw them I wanted
to try them really bad! But my first attempts were MAGURE fails! So after one
or two (or 100) tries I finally got it right and they were amazing. I thought I
could share with you my tips on how to get the perfect oven baked potato fries
so won’t have any fails like me!
CUTTING THE POTATOS
A lot of
people don’t like eating the skin so feel free to remove it, but I think it
tastes amazing. I just wash my potatoes really well with soap before cutting
them! After that, I cut them vertically in pig chunks as sown in the first
picture. After that, I take each individual piece and cut that into the classic
potato fry shape.
I find this is the easiest way to cut a shape that will bake
properly in the oven. Plus you get these small ones with a lot of skin that get
crispy and so delicious, they are my favorites!
SEASONING
After you’ve
cut your fries, put them into a bowl and add your favorite spices. I use turmeric,
cayenne pepper, black pepper, oregano, Himalayan salt, sunflower oil and a splash
of soy sauce.
Sometimes I make them spicier, sometimes I add more soy sauce, it depends
if I’m sharing with my family. They really don’t like spicy foods so I don’t add cayenne pepper. But the two ingredients I never forger are oregano and Himalayan
salt. Trust me, even if you don’t like oregano just put a tiny bit in. It makes
the fries just out of this world.
BAKING
And now for the important part. You have to
use a shallow tray, lined with parchment paper. If you use a deeper tray the
fries might get soggy.
Then you need to be careful with the placement. The fries
must not touch each other or else they get soggy or they get stuck in the parchment
paper (yea that can happen).
Bake them
at 200oC until they have brown/red spots on them. That’s when you know your
potato fries are baked to perfection!
ADDITIONAL TIPS
- Don’t get tempted and mix the seasoning and the fries on the parchment paper so you don’t have to clean an extra bowl. The parchment paper sucks up the extra oil or any type of sauce you want to put in and this makes your fries stick at the paper like you’ve put glue in them. (Done that, been there!)
- Sweet potato fries are the same, but sometimes you have to bake them more if you want them to be a little more crunchy.
If you make some fries, let me know by tagging me on Instagram! You can
find all of my social media information around my blog, or in the about section!
Thank you so much for reading my blog, if you have any questions
or suggestions feel free to comment down below!
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