Home Made Oven Chips

jenny74

jamespir wrote: »

i cut the potatoes chop them then fry them in a pan

But if you read my post, I am asking about OVEN chips... I have no fryer (never will) and I am trying to be healthy.

J

CCP

I've never tried making oven chips, but I wonder if using old potatoes (rather than new ones) would help. I know that you're supposed to use floury potatoes when making chips in a frying pan or when making roast potatoes, so it might help for oven chips, too.

I am just guessing, though, so hopefully someone who's actually tried will come along shortly with some tried and tested ideas.

Classy_Chick06

1. Preheat the oven to 240°C/475°F/Gas 9. Peel the potatoes using a potato peeler and remove any blemishes or 'eyes'. Slice lengthwise into approx ½in/1cm thick rectangular chips.

2. Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil. Add the chips and cook for 4 minutes. Drain and leave aside for 10 minutes to dry.

3. Return the chips to the dry saucepan, cover with a lid and shake to 'rough up' the edges of the chips - this roughness is important to the texture of the chips.

4. Spray a metal baking tray with Fry Light. Transfer the chips to the tray, spray lightly with Fry Light and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, turning occasionally, until golden brown on all sides. Drain them on absorbent kitchen paper and serve with salt and vinegar.

HTH

jenny74

Classy_Chick06 wrote: »

1. Preheat the oven to 240°C/475°F/Gas 9. Peel the potatoes using a potato peeler and remove any blemishes or 'eyes'. Slice lengthwise into approx ½in/1cm thick rectangular chips.

2. Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil. Add the chips and cook for 4 minutes. Drain and leave aside for 10 minutes to dry.

3. Return the chips to the dry saucepan, cover with a lid and shake to 'rough up' the edges of the chips - this roughness is important to the texture of the chips.

4. Spray a metal baking tray with Fry Light. Transfer the chips to the tray, spray lightly with Fry Light and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, turning occasionally, until golden brown on all sides. Drain them on absorbent kitchen paper and serve with salt and vinegar.

HTH

Great advice, thanks, except if I put them in my oven at 240C they would be burnt on the outside within 10 minutes! (Electric fan oven).

I will try the shaking them in the pan, something I didn't do before. Will this help make them have less of a skin on them?

Thanks again.

J

emilyka

Hiya,

I wondered the same thing a few months back and found Jamie Olivers chip recipe (search Jamie Olivers oven chips- can't post links- newbie!)

They were delicious, but not so healthy as using fry light. I have a fan assisted oven and cooked them at 210c and they turned out fine. I've done them a few times and they've worked every time- albeit to a different extent! The times they did go a bit wrong was probably due to blanching them for too long!

Hope you have more luck

zippychick

Hi Jenny74:hello:

Hope the chips work out better second try around for you. I've always found them a bit dry and not great but then I've never done them using the advice on this thread

I added your thread to the existing one on home made chips , so other users can find all the information and suggestions together.

I know it's a long thread - but it's full of wealth of experience from various OSers over the years . I'm off to read it now and see what problems others have occured, and what different approaches there are:A

I'll PM you to let you know this has been merged as well

Thanks
Zip

zippychick

zippychick wrote: »

Hi Jenny74:hello:

Hope the chips work out better second try around for you. I've always found them a bit dry and not great but then I've never done them using the advice on this thread

Well, I am trying now ! :eek: Sunday munchies! :jUsing charlotte potatoes as I got them whoopsied, cut , washed, olive oil salt and chilli flakes, oven. Bish bash bosh. I have my fingers crossed

kerri_gt

Sorry...another freezing question from me

I have a brilliant recipie for homemade oven chips that has rather made a MSE rod for my own back since OH much prefers them to the usual frozen oven chips we used to buy.

They are pretty simple to make - bascially the same method as roast potatoes, where you par boil the chips, then finish cooking them in the oven.

My question is, would it be possible/ok to par boil the chips, then freeze and then oven cook as you would with shop bought frozen chips? Although it really isn't a lot of effort to do the whole process when cooking them, it would be handy to perhaps have some chips on hand in the freezer ready to chuck in the oven if need be.

Recipie is here btw

http://www.food.com/recipe/homemade-oven-chips-128985

bananadog

I have no idea abouot freezing them but thanks for the recipe..what a brill idea cooking them in stock! I assume just a couple of chicken oxo cubes would do?

Aarons_mummy

I imagine it would be fine a few people have said they freeze part through the process