French Fries Recipe

Step 1

Wash and clean the potatoes and peel them. To achieve rectangular shape of fries, cut potato’s top, bottom and side part. Now cut potato in slices. Don’t cut slices too thick or too thin. Cut potato slice into potato sticks to make french fries. If you always love to eat french fries then you can buy french fries cutter to make this process easier and faster.

Step 2

Rinse potato sticks 2 - 3 times with fresh cold water and let them soak in a cold water for at least 30 min. Soaking will help you to get rid of starch. Drain the water and keep potato sticks on kitchen paper and dry them completely.

Step 3

Boil the water in a pan and drop potato sticks in it. Let them boil for 2-3 min. Now remove potato sticks and immediately drop them in a cold water. Drain the water and drop them in a cold water for second time. Remove them from water and let them dry completely.

Step 4

Add potato sticks in mixing bowl and add 2 tbsp corn flour in it. Toss the sticks so they get well coated with corn flour. You can use clean plastic bag for the same purpose. Put potato sticks in clean plastic bag add 2 tbsp corn flour, tightly close the opening of a bag and shake plastic bag well. Potato sticks will get well coated with flour.

Step 5

Now take plastic container and put all potato sticks in it. Keep it in freezer for 30 min. After 30 min., remove container from freezer and keep it aside for 5-10 min.

Step 6

Preheat oil in kadai. Once oil is hot enough, gently drop potato sticks in kadai. Fry them in batches, do not fry all at once. Keep gas heat on medium. Fry potato sticks for 4-5 min. Fry remaining sticks. Once all sticks are fried, let them cool off. Fry these french fries in oil again for second time. Keep gas heat on medium high and let them fry till they turn light golden brown in color. Remove fries from kadai and put them on kitchen paper to remove extra oil.