Seasoned Oven Fries

Potatoes are one of my favorite foods.  Of course they can be cooked in so many different ways and the best aren’t the most healthy.  This is a healthier alternative to a fried potato.  It takes a little more time than putting them in the deep fryer but the results are worth it.  Rage on!

Ingredients

1. 4 Potatoes(russet is what I used but any potato would work)
2. 1/2 T Pepper
3. 1/2 T Sea Salt(I used grey sea salt but regular works fine)
4. 1 T Smoked Seasoning Salt or regular Seasoning Salt
5. 1/s T Paprika
6. Olive Oil

Quick Directions

1. Cut potatoes into thin strips, keeping them as close to same size as possible.  Can leave skins on or peel off.
2. Soak in a bowl of water for 30 minutes to an hour.
3. Drain and rinse well, pat dry with towel.
4. Mix seasonings together.
5. Drizzle olive oil over potatoes and toss with seasoning.
6. Spread out on a baking sheet and place in oven pre-heated to 425.
7. Every twenty minutes, flip the potatoes.
8. Cook for about 45 minutes to an hour or until as crispy as you want them.
9. Enjoy!

Detailed Directions

Start by washing your potatoes and cutting them into thin strips.  You can remove the skins if you like but its not needed.  Also, make sure you keep your knife cuts even!  The closer to the same size the better as it will allow the fries to be finished at the same time.


Once you have them cut up, toss them into a bowl of water and let them soak 30-60 minutes.  This helps pull some of the starch out of the potatoes and leads to a crispier end product.

After they have sat drain the water and rinse them well.  We don’t want to have that starchy water left behind after doing all that work to pull it out of the potatoes!  After the bath, take a towel or paper towel and pat them dry.  Just do your best here.

 Mix all those delicious seasonings together.  This is a pretty straight forward step.









Then drizzle your potatoes with the olive oil.  It doesn’t take a lot.  I just threw them into a bowl and drizzled the oil over the top.  Once I had that step out of the way, I poured the seasonings on top and then tossed together.




Doing it in a bowl makes mixing easier.  Just toss and turn the potatoes until everything is adequately coated.




Place everything on a baking pan.  Try to get them spread evenly without too much overlap.  As you can see, I should have used a bigger pan or two so that they didn’t overlap as much.  It still worked fine though!  Place it in the oven at 425.


Once they have cooked for about 20 minutes, pull them out of the oven and flip them.  Do this about every 15-20 minutes and keep cooking them until they have gotten as crispy as you want them to be.  Once you have achieved what your looking for, they are ready to eat.  Put them on a plate and eat them as is or add some ketchup or whatever your favorite dipping sauce is.  Rage on!





Other Things

• The cut you choose doesn’t not have to be the same strips as I used.  Really any sort of shape works as long as they are not too thick and all roughly the same size.
• Potato choice really does not matter.  Golden Yukon's or reds would work just as great.  Really whatever your favorite is…use it.
• If you do less potatoes, cut back only slightly in the seasonings.  With more, increase slightly.  You only need to worry when you are getting into the realm of doubling the amount of potatoes that you increase the seasonings.  It is not an exact science, some people would have you believe otherwise…but they are wrong.  Rage on!