Cottage Fries - Easy Oven-Fried Potato Rounds

[Music] hello this is chef john from food wishes comm a with cottage fries that's right the forgotten fry steak fries home fries french fries they all get more publicity but that's okay the cottage fry is a fine fry in its own right and one you could do quite nicely in an oven so here we go so we're gonna start by slicing some potatoes in round slices about well a little more than a quarter-inch a little less than a half inch I guess that would be 3/8 of an inch now I'm using Yukon Gold here I normally use russet potatoes which are a little starchy and probably a little better for this but I had Yukon Gold on hand so I decided to try them and they do work fine and as long as you wash these really well there's no need to peel them so I'm leaving the skin on after they're sliced I'm gonna go ahead and rinse those in cold water all right we want to rinse off any excess starch that's why the water gets all cloudy you're gonna rinse those drain those and dry them as best you can with some paper towels alright and those are prepped I'm gonna go ahead and drizzle over some olive oil I'm gonna go with some black pepper all right a little bit of cayenne a generous amount of salt and then a dried herb blend you've seen me use before herb de Provence which is thyme rosemary oregano marjoram and usually a little bit of lavender which are those little light purple buds you see in there and no I'm not measuring any of that this is all to taste okay so don't be afraid at that point I'm gonna go ahead and mix this up use what you want but a bare hand really is the best tool here once those are evenly coated I'm gonna go ahead and place those on a baking sheet normally I use foil and they do come out a little crispier with foil but in this case I decided to go with my silicone mat because I hadn't tried it in a while on this and I forgot if it worked or not so I decided to go with it I'm gonna give them just a little bit extra salt sprinkled on top so we're gonna place those down we're gonna space them evenly and those are gonna go in a hot oven I want you to preheat it to 425 and we're gonna pop those in for 15 minutes okay and after 15 minutes they're just gonna start to fry in that oil we're gonna go ahead and flip those over put them back in for another 15 minutes and you're basically gonna repeat this process until there is brown and cooked as you want them so this was after like a half hour they're starting to get close but I wasn't satisfied so it popped those back in another 15 minutes and they were looking much closer so I could have just put those in for a little bit more time but I decided to go with an optional step here if you have one of these cooling racks on these baking racks transfer the potatoes on top put that back in the oven like that and because you're gonna get that air circulation underneath it really does help Christie's up so I put those back in for about I don't know it was like 10 minutes maybe 810 minutes something like that and when they came out I was finally happy so like I said that last step is optional you can just leave them on the pan until there is brown and crisp as you want and there you go simple easy delicious cottage fries if done properly they should be kind of crispy and crunchy around the edge yet still somewhat tender on the inside okay think of it as like a fat succulent potato chip which by the way would be a great name for a band and you can hear that that's what they're supposed to sound like and by the way they're called cottage fries because they're supposed to resemble the shingles on the roof of the cottage and by the way if your home has a fried potato roof I would love to see the rest of the house and there you go who's not looking for another simple easy to make delicious potato side dish I know I always am so anyway I really hope you give those a try head over to food wishes calm for all the ingredient amounts and more infos usual and as always enjoy you

Channel: Food Wishes

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Keywords: Cottage, Fries, Easy, Oven-Fried, Potato, Rounds, chips, side, dish, chef, john, foodwishes, French Fries (Dish), Food, Cooking, Kitchen, Eating, Recipe, Allrecipes, recipe, recipes, Cottage Fries, how to, how to make, how to cook, how to bake, make, cook, bake, learn, food, potato, appetizer, easy, simple, delicious

Id: 2q4IdyIF__c

Length: 3min 58sec (238 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 08 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/seanalltogether]

If you really want to go crazy, put these underneath a roasting chicken. Juices from the chicken drip down on the potatoes and...damn...now i want some cottage fries.