Simple Oven Baked Crispy Potato Wedges

[Music] hi I'm chef Finch welcome my fishing and today's episode I'm going to show you how to make a super simple and delicious side dish that everyone loves kids and adults crispy steak fries or you can also call them potato wedges potatoes keep for a long time they're really easy to use they're super versatile so let's get cooking the first thing we need to do is peel our potatoes I'm not gonna take all the skin off the potatoes and I'm always gonna peel away from me so I'm gonna take my peeler I'm gonna point the metal end toward me and I'm gonna peel away I'm gonna keep my bowl here to pick up my scraps and if I miss any of the potato skin and I leave a little bit on there that's okay I'm gonna take off probably like 85% of the skin that looks pretty good and now I'm gonna do the same for the other two so I'm gonna start off by cutting the potato directly in half when you cut the potato make sure that you're pushing the the knife straight down and you're keeping your fingers out of the way sometimes potatoes are a little stubborn and they can cause the knife to slip once I cut the potato in half I'm gonna fold the potato over and I'll cut right down the middle of both of these now from here I'm gonna cut this half into another half so making an eighth of a potato I take the blade of my knife and I point it right at the edge and I drag it straight through now I have two wedges I'm gonna take these wedges I'm gonna throw them in a bowl I'm gonna keep repeating with the rest of my potatoes getting eight wedges from each potato so now let's take a look at everything that we need to season it this is a super simple recipe so I'm just moving some of my olive oil I put my olive oil in a wine bottle and I have a pour spout on it just so I control the pork the main seasoning is gonna be my Bay seasoning if you don't know what my Bay seasoning is it's a blend of garlic powder onion powder pepper-and-salt and you can find the exact ratios on my previous video it's just a base evening video you can see that on my youtube channel I'm also going to put a little sweet paprika in there for a little bit of color and I do have some Italian seasoning that I'm going to throw in there you could throw this in or any other herbs but this is mainly going to be the main season so now I'm going to coat the potatoes with a little olive oil I'm going to be pretty generous with my olive oil on my potatoes because if they're not coated they'll burn but if they're are coated they will get crispy then I'm gonna be pretty generous with my my base seasoning so I'm gonna sprinkle this all around I'll toss the bowl a little bit just to get a little bit more of an even coating but we're gonna go in there with our hands and coat a little bit more now I'm going to put some of my paprika and you can see like I'm not being too exact I'm just putting enough that I feel that yeah once I mix it they'll get a good even coating and it'll put a little bit of sprinkle of Italian seasoning not too much because Italian seasoning because it's a try herb can burn if you put too much of it so now I'm just gonna get my hands in there and I'm gonna cost these potatoes and and coat them very nicely and I'll keep tossing them until the seasoning looks like it's pretty evenly coated so now I'm gonna put these on a baking sheet this is just a regular baking sheet said I've lined with a little bit of foil on the bottom just to save for a little cleanup because a lot of stuff's gonna fall through and I also have this raised grate on there because you want some air to come underneath and that's just gonna allow the potatoes to get crispy I played around with a lot of ways of placing the potatoes on there if you put the potatoes like this with the cut side up it allows you to get the most amount of potatoes but I also find that the tips get burned so we're gonna actually put them and flatten them out this way and I'm gonna try to create rows of potatoes and I'll try to have as much space as possible in between the potatoes if you want stuff to get crispy air needs to circulate and so you'll need air and space in between each of the wedges so now that I've got all my potatoes evenly spaced out on my raised baking sheet I'm going to put this in a 385 degree oven on a convection setting convection just blows all the air around so these will get super crispy on the outside so if something that goes great on top of potatoes just some chopped fresh parsley so I'm gonna take these parsley leaves and remove them from the stems it takes a little bit of work but this is part of cooking is doing the small things that lead to refined dishes and I think you know taking off parsley steps is an important thing I'm gonna put the parsley in a pile and I'm gonna put my knife tip down I'm gonna flatten my hand on top and I'm gonna move the blade of the knife chopping through the parsley and I'm gonna move like a fan over the parsley I keep pushing everything back to the center I'll move back and forth through it once or twice once it spread out enough I'll keep pushing it together and I'll keep doing this until I get the desired smallness ideally you don't want any big pieces you know I'll probably go through that one more time and that looks pretty good after about 25 minutes in the oven taking them out and I'm gonna flip them over they're already get it nice and crispy on one side we're just gonna flip them over and send them back in the oven for and probably another like 15 minutes to get a little bit crispy on the other side so you can see that as I'm flipping them over that we're putting a crispy side down and we're picking up the less crispy side and to really ensure maximum crispy I'm gonna take some spray olive oil and just hit the top just real quick now he's gonna go back in the oven for another 15 minutes if I notice that is darkening and they lower the temperature on the oven but we're still cooking right now at 385 so after about 40 minutes in the oven you can see that these are perfectly crisp on both sides then I break them open that's nice fluffy white potato all on on the inside but so now we're going to take them and we'll use a spatula to put them in our Bowl here and now I'm just going to take a little fresh parsley and and toss on top let's see what these taste like huh delicious leave comments let me know what you think ask questions in the comments and don't forget to subscribe to my channel for my next video thanks and happy cooking [Music]

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Id: KG8OZ6C2s-0

Length: 7min 37sec (457 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 17 2020