{"id":26498,"date":"2015-01-18T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T02:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/?p=26498"},"modified":"2020-03-24T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:20:50","slug":"crispy-baked-french-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/cooking\/crispy-baked-french-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"Crispy Baked French Fries"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love French fries, however, fried food and healthy living don’t quite go hand and hand. When I started making changes to my lifestyle<\/a> a few years ago I gave up fried food, including fries. However these crispy baked fries are just as good as the original!<\/p>\n

Fries was one of the few foods I missed with my new healthy diet. Once I got fit I brought the fries back, but in moderation.<\/p>\n

I really wanted to find a way to make fries at home in the oven that tasted as good as some of my favorite fried restaurant fries.<\/p>\n

After trying a few different recipes I wasn’t able to get the fries crispy enough. I couldn’t get the texture right they were always a little mushy and didn’t taste great.<\/p>\n

For me French fries have two requirements. They must be salty and they must be crispy. I’ll eat them thin, thick, waffle, or seasoned, but if they are mushy and lacking salt I’ll skip them altogether.<\/p>\n

Last week I decided to try again (since I had a 10 pound bag of potatoes sitting in my kitchen) and spent a few days working on my\u00a0fry recipe. (Tough job but someone has to do it!)<\/p>\n

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Then it hit me… I needed to soak the fries before cooking! Soaking potatoes helps get rid of the starch, and too much starch was making my fries mushy in the oven.<\/p>\n

I tried it and the baked fries were absolutely perfect! They were crispy and tasted just like the fried version.<\/p>\n

They are so easy to make and you can even do most of the prep work ahead of time if you wanted to make these for a a party or pot luck.<\/p>\n

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Crispy Baked French Fries<\/h2>\n
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These baked French fries are much healthier than the fried version and easy to make. The are super crispy and taste delicious!<\/div>\n
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Prep Time<\/span>1 hour<\/span><\/span> hr<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Cook Time<\/span>20 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Total Time<\/span>1 hour<\/span><\/span> hr<\/span> 20 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n
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Servings: <\/span>8<\/span><\/div>\n\n
Author: <\/span>Toni Anderson<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n

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