Make Homemade Cheese Fries

Homemade cheese fries are true comfort food, and you don't need to leave your house to enjoy them. There are several easy methods!

Steps

  1. Decide whether you want to save calories by oven-baking the potatoes, or whether you will fry them in a skillet or deep fryer.

Oven-Baked

  1. Preheat the oven to {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}}.
  2. Slice about a pound of russet or white Idaho potatoes lengthwise into half-inch slices. Lay the slices out on a cutting board, stack a few at a time and cut again lengthwise, so that they are long square fries like you get at a restaurants.
  3. Dry with a paper towel and brush all sides of the potatoes with a bit of oil -peanut, sunflower, safflower, olive or just plain vegetable oil.
  4. Bake in oven, turning occasionally, about 25 minutes or until a fork pierces them easily. (If you leave the skins on the potatoes they will be more nutritious. If you don't like the look of the skins on the french fries, you can peel them first).
  5. While you are cooking the potatoes, take half a small brick of Velveeta or other melting cheese, place in bowl, cover with saran wrap, and microwave for one minute at a time until melted, stirring occasionally. If you have a stove and two pots but no microwave, start the cheese sauce first. Put about two inches of water in the bottom of the larger pot, place the smaller of the two pots inside of the larger one, and grate the cheese into the smaller pot. Put this pot 'nest' on stove on medium heat. The cheese will melt and can stay warm in the smaller nested pot until the fries are cooked.
  6. When the potatoes are done, serve immediately with the cheese sauce!

Fried

  1. Slice about a pound of russet or white Idaho potatoes lengthwise into half-inch slices. Lay the slices out on a cutting board, stack a few at a time and cut again lengthwise, so the end result is long square strips.
  2. Dry the strips with a paper towel and brush all the sides of the potatoes with some oil- it can be any kind, such as peanut, sunflower, safflower, olive, or plain vegetable oil.
  3. Heat about half an inch of oil in a skillet to almost boiling. Carefully place towel-dried potato strips in oil (if they're wet, the water on the potatoes will make the oil spatter and burn you!) and cook several minutes in the hot oil, turning frequently until they become light golden all over.
    • If you have a deep fryer, follow instructions for the appliance; put potatoes in the deep fryer basket and fry them until golden brown, then carefully remove the basket from the fryer and put potatoes on plate with a paper towel to absorb the excess oil.
  4. While you are cooking the potatoes, take half a small brick of Velveeta or other melting cheese, place in bowl, cover with saran wrap, and microwave for one minute at a time until melted, stirring occasionally. If you have a stove and two pots but no microwave, start the cheese sauce first. Put about two inches of water in the bottom of the larger pot, place the smaller of the two pots inside of the larger one, and grate the cheese into the smaller pot. Put this pot 'nest' on stove on medium heat. The cheese will melt and can stay warm in the smaller nested pot until the fries are cooked.
  5. When the potatoes are done, serve immediately with the cheese sauce!



Tips

  • If you don't like cheese sauce, use block cheese. Get a variety of types (Cheddar, and Mozzarella, for example) and put some of the cheese onto the fries, and microwave them. Keep in mind that harder cheeses (Parmesan, aged cheddar) will melt less quickly and harden up once taken off the heat. Making the cheese into a cheese sauce by melting equal volumes of flour and butter (for three servings [three potatoes] use 2Tbsp. butter and flour stirred together over heat, adding 6oz of milk, followed by 4 oz of cheese, when the flour-butter mixture is smooth and pasty) widens the scope of flavors you can achieve in this recipe.
  • You can also buy bagged freezer fries at the grocery store, but they might not taste as good!

Warnings

  • Be aware that this probably isn't the healthiest snack you can eat.

Things You'll Need

  • Frying pan or baking pan, such as a cookie sheet
  • White (Idaho or russet) potatoes
  • Melting cheese, such as Velveeta, and a microwave and bowl to put it in
  • Oil to fry the potatoes
  • Paper towels
  • Plate
  • Bowl
  • Dipping sauce (optional)

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