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Best Ever Vegan Oven Fries

Prep Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds of russet potatoes scrubbed, dried and cut into 1/4" or so strips
  • water to cover cut potatoes
  • 1/4 cup kosher salt plus 1-2 tsp.
  • 2 tbsp refined coconut oil melted

for the after dressing

  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1/4 cup fresh basil chopped
  • 2 tbsp vegan parmesan
  • sea salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Prepare two baking sheets or jelly roll pans by covering with parchment paper, aluminum foil sprayed with high heat cooking spray or silicone baking mats.
  2. Prepare potato strips and place in large bowl.
  3. Cover potatoes with fresh water and add 1/4 cup kosher salt. Stir.
  4. Let sit for about an hour.
  5. Move oven racks to lowest rungs and preheat oven to 450 F.
  6. After 60 minutes, drain and rinse potatoes and lay on towel to dry.
  7. Gently press with paper towel to remove as much moisture as possible.
  8. Dry out bowl used to soak potatoes.
  9. Place prepared and empty baking sheets in oven for about 5 minutes.
  10. Add melted coconut oil and 1-2 tsp kosher salt to bowl.
  11. Add dried potatoes and using your hands, coat them in oil/salt mixture.
  12. Rinse hands.
  13. Carefully remove baking sheets from oven and divide potatoes between baking sheets, taking care to keep potatoes from overlapping.
  14. Place back in oven for 30 min, flipping potatoes after 15 min.
  15. After 30 min, turn oven off and leave fries in oven for an additional 15 minutes.
  16. While the fries are doing their thing in the oven, prepare the after dressing in the bowl used to coat the fries. After the final 15 minutes of resting in the "off" oven, the fries are ready to be coated in the after dressing. Sprinkle with the vegan parm and serve.

Recipe Notes

Are French fries French? American? Belgian? Spanish? Most sources credit Thomas Jefferson for bringing the French fry to America, via France, but trace the original fried potato to Belgium. These fried wonders became popular in the states during the early 1900's, though their first written mention is attributed to Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de Leon c. 1553! More fascinating sound bites can be found at http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/08/are-french-fries-truly-french/