Making French Fries yourself, the Chef Step by Step Cooking School
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Table of Contents
- 1. French Fries from the Oven or from the Deep Fryer
- 2. Prepare French Fries in the Oven
- 3. French Fries from the Deep Fryer
- 4. The right Fat for French fries
- 5. French Fries as a Side Dish
- 6. Making French Fries yourself, Tools and Ingredients
- 7. Potato Variety for French Fries
- 8. Prepare French Fries Step by Step
- 9. Summary Frying French Fries properly
- 10. Make Potatoe Wedges yourself
- 11. Multiple Use of deep-frying Fat
- 12. Recipe French Fries
- 13. Calories (kcal) French Fries
- 14. More Potato Recipes and Dip Ideas
1. French Fries from the Oven or from the Deep Fryer
Gourmets like homemade French fries, but I have to take this opportunity to speak up for the French fries industry. The deep-frozen French fries and also the oven French fries are today processed in great quality and taste excellent. Nevertheless, homemade french fries from the deep fryer are something special.2. Prepare French Fries in the Oven
French fries from the oven simply succeed: Marinate the rawly cut potato sticks with vegetable oil and salt in a bowl, then place the French fries on a baking tray with baking paper. The potato sticks must not lie on top of each other, but only next to each other. Push the chips into the preheated oven and cook them at 220°C hot air for about 15 minutes until crispy. The French fries from the oven taste delicious, but from my point of view they don’t come close to the real French fries from the deep fryer.3. French Fries from the Deep Fryer
The best French fries come from the fryer and are homemade. How this works is shown step by step in the following text.
4. The right Fat for French fries
Experiment with frying fat and find out how it affects the taste. You can use coconut oil, sunflower oil, beef fat or olive oil. You have already read correctly, you can also fry with olive oil. It’s incredible how the taste of French fries changes depending on the type of fat you use!5. French Fries as a Side Dish
The French fries are generally a hit as side dish and they are often served with Wiener Schnitzel – Viennese Escalope Recipe, but better vor Vienna Cutlet is viennese potato salad 🙂 … French fries are typical site dishes for German Currywurst – curry sausage and steak. As finger food and snack, the French fries are served with spicy sauces and tomato ketchup or a homemade mayonnaise, simply wonderful. You will find a crazy combination of mine on the subject of finger food: I have cooked a low temperature pink duck breast with chips and truffle mayonnaise. This is a real hit and could be served at your perfect dinner – simply stunning!
6. Making French Fries yourself, Tools and Ingredients
For homemade fries you need good potatoes, a peeler, a kitchen board, a knife, enough frying fat, salt, a pot and stove or a deep fryer, a tea towel and a roll of kitchen paper, a large bowl, a frying basket that fits in the pot or is with the deep fryer and a skimmer.7. Potato Variety for French Fries
Mealy boiling varieties have proven their worth in making French fries themselves. These potato varieties called Bintje, Aula or Likaria contain less water than waxy potatoes. This is ideal for frying and the chips will simply become crispy and tasty. If you don’t have access to these varieties, please use mainly waxy potatoes, these are a good alternative.8. Prepare French Fries Step by Step
Put all the tools and potatoes ready, let the fat melt in a pot or deep fryer over a low heat. I’ll take you step by step to the perfect fries.8.1 Wash and peel Potatoes
8.2 Cut peeled, raw Potatoes into Slices
8.3 Cutting Potato Sticks, raw French Fries
8.4 Potato Sticks, raw French Fries, put into the Frying Basket
8.5 Heat the Frying Fat, Temperature 170-180°C
8.6 Blanching French Fries, the first Frying Process, 3-5 Minutes
8.7 Remove the French Fries from the hot Fat and allow to cool slightly
8.8 Fry French Fries “final” and cook until done
8.9 Salt and serve French Fries
9. Summary Frying French Fries properly
How do you get golden brown, crispy and delicious French fries? The raw potato sticks have to be fried twice. During the first frying, which cooks also call blanching, the raw potato sticks are fried for about 3-5 minutes. During this process the fries get only a little colour and cook slowly. Then a break is important, the pre-fried French fries must be removed from the fat for a few minutes and should cool slightly. This starch ensures that the french fries get the right colour and crunchy effect when they are fried the second time.10. Make Potatoe Wedges yourself
I would like to mention the popular Potatoe wedges here. Cut the wedges as evenly as possible so that the result is good when frying. Only evenly cut wedges cook the same way, thicker ones may cause you to bite on raw potatoes! You can also prepare wedges in the oven, but they will be crispier in the deep fryer.
11. Multiple Use of deep-frying Fat
You should pass the frying fat after use and cool down through a fine sieve. This will remove any remaining fat from the frying pan. The fat can thus be used longer, firstly because no old frying residues burn in the fat during the next frying and secondly because the fat becomes rancid less quickly due to the removal of the frying residues.12. Recipe French Fries
French Fries
Recipe French fries with detailed step by step chef instructions. The making of french fries is explained with many tips and photos.
Servings 2
Calories 534
Total Time 45 Min.
I show you how to make your own french fries in this recipe article. Step by step with many photos I show the preparation of homemade french fries. Many chef tips round off the article. Good luck!
Preparation Time
15 Min.
Cook Time
20 Min.
Ingredients
| 400 | g | Potatoes (more information above in the contribution) |
| 700 | g | vegetable fat |
| some | Salt |
Instruction
Peel and wash the potatoes to make your own french fries and place them in a bowl with cold water.
Take the potatoes out of the cold water and cut them into 1 cm thick slices, then cut them into 1 cm thick sticks and put them in the cold water again. After peeling and cutting, the potatoes must be placed in cold water so that they do not turn brown.
Heat the frying fat to 175-180°C in a high pot (note the fill level!) or in a deep fryer. Temperature test: The correct temperature is reached when bubbles rise on a wooden skewer immersed in the hot fat. The deep fryer does not continue to heat when the temperature is reached.
Remove the prepared potato sticks from the water and dry well. Pour the chips into the hot oil and fry for 3-5 minutes. This process is also called blanching.
Remove the prefried chips from the hot fat and leave to cool for 5 minutes.
Finally, fry the chips in hot fat for about 5 minutes until golden brown and crispy.
Drain the french fries very well and place in a large bowl. Season the french fries with salt and swirl, then serve quickly.
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13. Calories (kcal) French Fries
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