[Edited: Alison made an important comment about the smoke point of olive oil below and provided this link. I use a "regular" olive oil for cooking, not extra virgin olive oil. I agree with her recommendation to reduce the temperature (maybe 350 to 375 degrees) and bake the fries a bit longer.]My mother-in-law gave me three large potatoes the other day. Since I discovered my love for sweet potatoes, I haven't eaten many "regular" potatoes. (Okay, I did make pizza with potatoes just a few days ago, but I bought them because they were so cute, and I had a particular dish in mind that I wanted to recreate...).
Seeing the potatoes on my counter, I thought they'd be perfect for oven-baked fries. And that's what I made. But I wanted the fries to be a bit more "interesting," so I added chopped rosemary and grated Parmesan cheese.
Ingredients- 3 large potatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 sprigs of rosemary, finely chopped
- Salt
- Pepper
I coated the cut up potatoes with olive oil and then added the cheese, rosemary, salt & pepper. Here is a picture of the fries before I put them in the oven. I
baked them at 450 degrees for about 25 minutes.
[Important: Please see my note at the beginning of this post regarding the oven temperature.] I turned them about three times while they were baking.
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And here they are after I took them out of the oven. They were very tasty...
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The fries were part of our "unplanned" meal on Wednesday. In addition to the fries, we also had
salmon cakes, and sauteed green beans.
Question: What are your favorite fries? Mine are Parmesan sweet potato fries... Be well,
Andrea