Oven “fries” are a good trick to have up your sleeve for weeknight dinners. They taste almost as good as real fries (okay, nothing tastes as good as really well done french fries), they’re a lot healthier, and they cook much more quickly than baked potatoes. Figure on ½ potato per person.
The technique is simple:
- Preheat the oven to 475 degrees
- Cut russet potatoes into long wedges
- Toss the wedges first with olive oil, then with seasoning, such as coarse salt, pepper, cayenne, paprika or a seasoning mix like Southwest seasoning
- Spread the potato wedges on a baking sheet and bake for 20-30 minutes until browned on each side, turning once halfway through the baking time
Oven fries are great by themselves or with ketchup, mustard or even salsa.
Tagged: Home-style, Oven-frying, Potatoes, Sides
If they’re that healthy, why don’t we have them every week??
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I make similar roasted potatoes about once a week and they are awesome. I usually dice the potatoes (redskins), but same concept. One secret I learned is to put the pan in the oven while it preheats and then put the potatoes on the hot pan. I don’t turn them at all during cooking. The potatoes come out all browned and crispy and yummy on the one side that hits the hot pan.
That is a great tip, Erika! Thanks.