How do you make your homemade french fries real crispy?!
Answers: Should I just rinse out the starch or do I soak em??? If so, for how long....
The secret is in frying them twice. Fry once until half done, spread on paper to dry and drain. When cool, fry a second time in very hot oit.
I do oven fries. Just slice the potatoes, spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray, put the potatoes on the cookie sheet and spray them with the non-stick spray. Cook them at 450 for about 20 minutes or so. They turn out so good, plus it's a lot less messy than deep frying them.
just leave them until there kinda burnt (they really taste good) or cook the whole french frie then pick it up and put the side of the french fry on the stove
I've never made homemade fries but we take frozen store bought ones and we put some Crisco in a pan and let it get hot and once its melted we fry the fries so they are crispy and good..
Double fry them
make a homemade cake batter instead of sugar use salt thats what i do. :) hope it helps!
I asked this very question not to long ago....the trick is to fry them twice....the first time don't let them brown...remove them...let them cool ,then cook them again till golden brown...it works like a charm...
The oil has to be real hot... and you deep fry them... in batches if necessary so the oil doesn't cool. DO NOT soak them. The water will make the oil spit everywhere. Better to dry them completely. Crunchy has nought to do with starch.
The packet variety you get in teh supermarket are already fired once... frying them twice makes them crucnhy.. yes.. but also particularly high in cholestoerol.
Try a batter of eggs, then dip into flour
frying them twice is the proper way to do it, but i'm lazy; so i just give them an extra long frying time.
This is how make mine and they are very crunchy. Cut them in the size that you want, rinse and dry them with tea towel or paper towel. Once they are completely dry, sprinkle some flour, salt and pepper over them. Fry them in small batches in very hot oil (olive or vegetable or canola), and drain on paper towel.
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