Baked Greek French Fries

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Greek fries are my new favorite way to enjoy french fries. Served warm with olive oil, feta cheese and herbs and spices. It's the best.I love french fries. I’ll make a confession: one of my favorite things to do is get a late-night snack of fries from McDonald’s. It’s so bad for my body but they’re so good. With today’s recipe, I call myself “making it healthy” because I baked them instead of frying them. But what that really means is that I was simply too lazy to get my fryer out of the cabinet and the oven was closer. Anyway, Greek french fries might be my new way to indulge in my snack cravings.

OK, let me start from the beginning. Last week, John and I decided to go have lunch at the local restaurant, 2 Crazy Greeks. I’d eaten there before but I always had regrets that I didn’t try their feta fries. So this last trip I was able to redeem myself. I ordered them and they were delicious. The portion was huge and from now on, we’ll definitely share them if we order feta fries again.

2 Crazy Greeks in Chattanooga, TN is a tasty walkup serving up the most delicious and authentic Greek food. The feta fries are delicious.I had every intention on doing a full blog post on 2 Crazy Greeks but sometimes life pulls you in a different direction. For me, that direction was to try to recreate the fries. Oh yeah.

This recipe is so easy, I almost called it “lazy Greek french fries”. Luckily, I decided against it. The most difficult part of this recipe (if you want to call it difficult) is cutting the potatoes. If you own a mandoline, you can use that to make potato rounds instead of potato “sticks”. I remember my parents making homemade french fries all the time when I was younger, so this process was familiar to me. If you need a refresher on how to properly slice potatoes for fries, check out this Serious Eats video.

Greek fries are great with gyros or I like them to accompany my grilled cheese sandwiches. It sort of feels fancy.I’ve read different opinions on soaking potatoes in water while you cut them. My parents did it so I continue to do it too. Soaking your freshly cut potatoes in water keeps them from oxidizing and turning a weird brownish gray color. Gross. It also gets the starch out, which helps them not stick together. So my suggestion is to place freshly sliced potatoes in water until you’re ready to bake them. Got it?

Let’s make some Greek fries.

I love fried french fries but baking them allows all of the flavors to bake into it in a really delicious way. Try it.

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