French fries recipies
By liviucrl
@liviucrl (25)
Romania
December 11, 2006 9:11am CST
How many kinds of preparing French fries do you know? What are you using: cooker, microwave oven, fryer(friteuse) etc. What kind of oil do you use (sunflower oil, palm oil, olive oil etc.)? Do you have some "secret" ingredients for the best taste?
2 responses
@fintzu (56)
• United States
11 Dec 06
the trick is to fry them twice. Once with lower heat (325), for about 8 minutes or so, then take them out and shock them in a bath of ice water mixed with some rice flour. Dry them off, and then put them back into the oil which you have heated to 375 for about 3 minutes. They will be amazingly crisp, and the rice flour keeps them from being too soggy.
I use peanut oil, but the best is to use peanut oil with some bacon fat melted in. Yum!
As for choice of potato - russets seem to work the best.
