Masala French Fries
September 7th, 2008 filed under Appetizers, Vegan
Masala French Fries are an exciting twist on french fries, and they are great to serve with cocktails or as an appetizer.
Recipe serves 2 to 4.
Ingredients:
- 2 medium russet potato
- 2 tablespoons corn starch
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mint powder (sukha podina)
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper (kali mirch)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon citric acid (tatri)
- Oil to fry
Method:
- Peel the potatoes wash and cut into French fries.
- Mix the salt with potato and let it sit for about ten minutes.
- Drain the salt water well and lightly pat dry.
- Mix cornstarch, salt, mint powder, citric acid, red and black pepper together.
- Sprinkle the spice mix over potatoes and mix well so all the fries are covered with spices.
- Heat the oil in frying pan on medium high heat.
- The frying pan should have at least 1 1/2 inch of oil. To check if the oil is ready, just put potato strip in frying pan. Potato should sizzle.
- Fry the fries till they become gold in color all around, turn the fries a few times while frying.
- Remove fries from oil and place on paper towel.
- Serve hot and enjoy!
Variations
- Replace dry mint with dry fenugreek leaves.
- Feel free to experiment.
Tips
You can make the fries few hours before serving. Heat the fries in oven at 350 degrees for seven to ten minutes before serving.
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Hello Mom, Pls tell me substitute for ground red peper while making masala french fries.
can u tell me how we can make naan without oven . basically i would like to know how we can make that on tawa.
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Hi, manjula aunty i am really thankful to you for giving such wonderful recipies we really enjoy eating so many varieties of food. whenever i feel like preparing some new recipe, i remember u & log on to your website & i get the method of doing it.Thank u once again you are simply SUPERB!
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what is the citric acid? what is the use of this citric acid in this recipe? can I use “baking soda” instead of “citric acid”?
Give your reply
Thank You,
Jadhav,
Citric acid provides the sourness to the dish this is a dry powder if you dont have citric acid use few drops of lemon juice.
Dear Majula,
I am very grateful to you for all the work you do to bring us this wonderful recipies. My husband and I have improve our diet thanks to you.
I love watching you cook you make it all very easy to follow and apply.
Lots of love
Hello Madam,
This is Suchisuvra from Kolkata. I really learnt a lot from you. I have tried ur Pizza bread and pani puri at home and it was a grand success.
Thanx a lot and plz keep posting ur new recipes.
Suchisuvra.