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I recently confessed my tendency to overindulge in French fries. After the blog was posted, a friend shared a recipe with me for no-fry French fries. I was like, “What?!” French fries that aren’t fried? And I immediately had to try what I dubbed as “faux fries.” I discovered that the prep is super-easy and I swear the potatoes are delicious. Here’s how I made them:
Ingredients:
Russet potatoes, peeled
No-stick cooking spray
Seasoning (Options I’ve tried are: salt and pepper, Creole seasoning, and basil and parmesan – all were tasty!)
Instructions:
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. (Tip: While the oven is heating up I do the prep work.)
- Take a baking sheet and place aluminum foil on top the baking surface. Spray foil with no-stick spray.
- Peel potatoes and cut into slices. Place on foil.
- Spray sliced potatoes with no-stick spray and sprinkle with your seasoning of choice (see above).
- Bake for 30 minutes. Sometimes a few extra minutes are needed depending on how many slices you cut and how thick they are. You’ll know they’re done when they brown on the edges.
- Lift off with a spatula and nom nom nom!
I’m not an experienced cook, so please forgive my makeshift recipe. Hopefully my explanation is enough for you to recreate it with success. If you have suggestions for other tasty seasoning options, please share them here!
Lynn Lamousin is a Choose You subscriber from Atlanta, GA who signed up to Eat Right, Get Active, Get Regular Health Checks, and Protect My Skin. (She quit smoking many years ago, but still dreams about cigarettes.) Her mother and brother both lost battles with cancer.
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Thanks, Lynn! Bonus: works with sweet potatoes, too. Add some crushed garlic, spray with olive oil, sprinkle with sea salt. What diet?
Kay, you are so right — it does work with sweet potatoes, too! In fact, I made sweet potato fries on Tuesday because it’s fall and fall is sweet potato eating time! The only difference from the above recipe is that, like you mentioned, I used olive oil, and my seasoning was just a little salt and pepper. I sliced them moderately thin and in chips (basically, just cut straight down so you have a sweet potato circle) and baked on 425 for about 10 to 12 minutes. I need to take some photos of these dishes so people can visualize them. Putting that on my to do list…