How to Fry Frozen French Fries

We all know that french fries need to fry in deep oil, but we don’t know what the condition of the pieces is before frying. Most of the time, the french fries are frozen.

People tend to buy them from the nearest shops where the chips are available in a half-manufactured way. It is getting popular because of its easy cooking process.

How to Process French Fries:

Surprisingly, many of us do not know how to cook the frozen fries; mostly the non-cooker or beginner. For those, here is a short brief to have their desired french fries at home:

Take a deep fryer pan
Pour oil till half of the pan
Heat it until the temperature gets 350º F
Take a portable or handled stainless basket which should be fit to the pan
Put some frozen fries to the basket and put it into the hot oil
Wait for 6 to 7 minutes to cook the fries finally
Sometimes it may take a little bit longer time if the frozen fries are in highly cold temperature
Within this time, you can shake or stir or move the basket to make the fries proper heat and oil
When the chips turn into yellow or light yellow, you can take off the basket with fries
Place the basket into such place so that the oil can spill off
Put some pepper and spicy powder on the chips and mix slightly
Put the fries into a plate with little garnishings such as white sauce, chili sauce or tomato ketchup

Measuring the Temperature

The professional cooks usually use thermometer to examine the required temperature accuracy. It is not mandatory for cooking at home.

One can quickly identify the heat through the smelling the scent of oil. The smell will be no more if the oil is heated correctly. Another note, there would be some bubbles sometimes on the heated oil. It can allow one to detect the right time to fry the frozen french fries.

Air Frier

Another newly method has just practiced in many places in the air fryer process. In this process, the entire cooking can be managed without any oil, which is even healthier for the human body. For this, you need to buy an air fryer pan first. Here the rest remedies are given:

Take an air fryer pan where the frozen fries should be spread evenly on the pot
Keep the temperature up to 400º F and hold it around 15 minutes longer (10 minutes for thinner chips)
Middle of the heating, you should shake the pan gently to get the fries proper heat all-around of them
Based on the demand for crispy, you need to give extra time.

Advantages of using air frier

The cooking through air fryer has several advantages of which-

No oil applied
Quicker cooking
No threat of hot oil slipping
Minimized risk of burning
You can quickly move the pan/ fries

Conclusion

French fries are the easiest method of food cooking that anyone can try. For the beginner or non-cooker, using the air fryer method would be more convenient, and it also helps at maintaining the balanced diet chart.

To Know more: How to Freeze Potatoes for Roasting.