Name: French Fries Oven Baked
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Russet Potatoes: 2; Olive Oil: 1 tbs; Coarse Kosher Salt; Black Pepper, freshly ground

Easy to make french fries baked in the oven with olive oil.

Every once in a while it’s great to have some rustic, crunchy French fries at home. Deep frying them is a serious pain, and restaurant-made fries don’t deliver well, so what to do?

#comfort food #easy

Oven Roasted French Fries

My answer to the fries at home problem is high-temp convection (or traditional) oven roasting with olive oil on a rack.

Although fries made this way are a bit different comparable to their deep fried version, they are delicious in their own way with crunchy deeply-browned skins and tender middles. Avoiding the deep fryer saves on calories and a lot of the fat of traditional fries, and they are also quick and easy to make without a lot of cleanup or oil storage.

So next time you’re jonesing for mini white castle style burgers or barbecued maple syrup sloppy joe’s, whip up a batch of these super easy, always delicious oven fries.

Overview | Oven Roasted French Fries

Cuisine: American

Yeild: 4

Cooking Temp: 450 ℉

Recipe Ingredients | Oven Roasted French Fries

+ × 2 Russet Potatoes - large, skin-on and washed
+ × 1 tbs Olive Oil
+ × Coarse Kosher Salt - to taste
+ × Black Pepper, freshly ground - to taste

Adjust Servings

Steps | Oven Roasted French Fries

Clean, Cut and Rinse the Potatoes

Wash the potatoes and dry. Leaving the skin on, cut the potatoes lengthwise into thick matchstick-shaped slices. Do this with a large knife or a French fry cutter.

Place potato pieces into a large bowl and rinse with cold tap water. Repeat. Fill the bowl with cool water and allow to soak for 20 - 30 minutes. Finally empty the water and rinse a final time. This process removes excess starch from the potato pieces.

Easy to make Russet potato oven roasted French fries.

Cut Russet potatoes lengthwise into 3/8" - 1/2" thick slices using a large chefs knife.

3/8" to 1/2" thick potato slices for great oven roasted fries.

Potato slices placed in large mixing bowl to soak and rinse.

Potato slices are soaked and rinsed to remove starch.

Dry, Oil and Season the Potato Slices

After soaking and rinsing the potato, dry the slices using a salad spinner and paper towel. Return the dried potato slices into a large bowl and add olive oil, coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper. Toss to coat evenly.

A salad spinner used to dry potato slices after water soaking for oven roasted French fries.

Potato slices dry on paper towel before roasting.

Dried potato slices are tossed in olive oil, coarse salt and ground black pepper prior to oven roasting.

Oven Roast the Fries at 450℉

Once oiled and seasoned with salt and pepper, transfer the fries onto a wire rack placed over a large sheet pan (protects oven from drippings). Organize and space the fries on the wire rack to encourage even cooking and oven roast at 450℉ using convection if your oven is convection equipped. If not, just use standard bake settings but increase temperature to 475℉. Roast until golden brown, about 15 - 20 minutes.