French Fries/Potato Finger/Potato Finger Chips
French Fries or Potato Finger Chips is crispy fast food potato recipe prepared by deep frying potato sticks and then tossing it with Salt and Mixed Herbs.
Servings 2 servings
Calories
Ingredients
- 3 medium Potatoes
- 4 cups Water
- Regular Salt or Rock Salt as required
- Mixed Herbs as required
- Red Chilli Powder or Paprika as required
- Oil for Deep Frying
Instructions
Preparation of Potato Fingers:
- Take the Potatoes and peel off the outer layer with peeler.
- Wash the Potatoes and then cut them into slices of 1/2 inch thickness.
- Next take the slices and cut them into thin sticks of thickness 1/2 inch. Cut all the slices.
- Take all the Potato sticks in a large bowl filled with water. Rinse the sticks so that the starch comes out of the potatoes.
- Now take fresh water in a sauce pan and add Salt to it. Add the Potato sticks and heat the water. Boil the potatoes till they are parboiled. Boiling also helps in removing the starch.
- After the Potato Sticks are parboiled, drain out the water. Rinse the potato sticks once again with fresh cold water to remove the remaining starch.
- Drain out the water and place the Potato sticks over clean kitchen towel. With the help of the other edge of the towel, pat and dry the sticks.
- Remember to dry the Potato sticks completely before starting to fry them. Also leave the sticks open for some time before frying so that it completely dries up.
Frying French Fries (First Frying):
- Heat Oil in Kadai over medium heat.
- When the Oil heats up, add the first batch of dried Potato sticks to the Oil. Do not add enough potato sticks.
- Fry the Potato Sticks by regularly stirring it till they are properly cooked. The Potato sticks should be properly cooked from inside and crust from outside.
- While frying, the potatoes should not change its colour to brown from outside. Take out the half fried potatoes from the oil before it starts changing its colour.
- Take the fried potato sticks out from the oil and place them over paper kitchen towel.
- Take few more paper towel and place over the fried potatoes. Slightly press it to absorb the excess oil.
- In the same manner fry the other batches of Potato sticks.
- Allow the half fried potatoes to cool down to room temperature.
- When it completely cools down, take the fried potatoes in zip bag, close it and keep in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, take out the bag filled with half fried potatoes for second round of frying.
Frying French Fries (Second Frying):
- Heat the same Oil over medium high or high flame.
- Add the half fried Potato sticks into the Oil and fry them.
- Fry the potatoes till they are crisp and golden in colour.
- Remove the fried potatoes from the oil and place them over kitchen towel to absorb the excess oil.
- Immediately take the fried potatoes in a bowl and add Salt, Red Chilli Powder and Mixed Herbs.
- Shake and toss the potatoes so that all the ingredients are uniformly mixed with the fried potatoes.
- Crispy and tasty French Fries is ready to be served. Serve it hot immediately with Tomato Ketchup or Mustard Sauce.
Notes
- We have boiled the Potato sticks so that it gets cooked from outside and becomes easy to fry.
- If you want, you can skip the step of boiling the potatoes. If you are skipping this step then remember to cut the potatoes of thickness less than 1/2 inch so that it helps in cooking the potatoes while frying.
- The Potatoes are rinsed in Water to remove the starch. To make perfect French Fries, removing of excess starch is the most important step.
- In the process of frying the potatoes for the first time, remember to fry the potatoes for few minutes. The colour should not change to golden.
- In the second round of frying, cook the potatoes till they are crisp and golden in colour.
- After taking out the Potato sticks from the freezer, fry it immediately. It helps in making the sticks crispier. Be careful while adding the chilled potatoes into the oil. The oil may spill while adding the potatoes.
- The potatoes after cutting should not be left open for a longer time otherwise it may change its colour.
- For tasty and crispier French Fries, serve it immediately after frying it by tossing with Salt and Herbs.