The single most important step to improving your health and your family’s health (both therapeutically and preventively) is to stop eating fast food.
It’s especially sad to see an entire generation of children being raised on fast food, with French fries being a staple in their diet. Am I saying I’m anti-French fry? No, not when they’re homemade using healthy ingredients and are served on occasion.
My boys love these fries, as do most kids, which is why they’re one of my favorite recipes to make in conjunction with the Healthy Chicken Nuggets for kid-parties. It really opens the door to talk about healthy eating when Moms see their kids devouring real food with a big smile on their faces! We hope you enjoy this recipe too!
P.S. You can also follow this same recipe using yummy sweet potatoes to create delicious Sweet Potato Fries, see photo and note below!
Slice fries and place on clean dish towel. Be sure to pat dry with clean paper towels.
Making fries together is a fun way to get your kids in the kitchen with you and talk about why it’s so much better for us to eat real food!
Encourage your kiddos to try something new! Replace the white potatoes with sweet potatoes for an extra yummy boost in nutrition. See recipe notes below for details!
Ingredients
- 3 medium-to-large organic Russet potatoes (or sweet potatoes)
- 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp Celtic sea salt
- 1/8 tsp rosemary
- 1/8 tsp thyme
- 1/8 tsp paprika
- 1/8 tsp garlic powder
- 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- Pinch of cayenne pepper (or more if you like ‘em really spicy!)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to *425 degrees. Peel and slice potatoes into fries and place on a clean dishtowel. Pat potato slices with clean paper towels until completely dry.
- Using a gallon-size ziplock baggie, add olive oil and seasonings to the bag. Mash and combine the oil and seasonings, while evenly distributing the mixture throughout baggie.
- Place slice potatoes into the baggie, seal and shake until potatoes are well coated.
- Immediately transfer to a baking sheet, making sure that potatoes are evenly spaced for best results.
- Bake 20-25 minutes until lightly browned around edges. (If making sweet potato fries, check them at about 15-20 minutes, as they often take less time, depending on how thick they're cut.)
- Serve with a turkey-veggie burger or healthy chicken nuggets.
Notes
*If you have convection, that’s best. It's important to have high heat when baking fries and not to use too much oil, which is why you do not want to oil your baking sheet. These fries will be softer than "fried" fries, but should not be soggy. If they are, reduce the oil and try up-ing your oven temp to 450 degrees, as ovens do vary in actual temperature (some run hotter, some not so much).
These french fries are amazing! My family loves them. I make them at least once a week now.
Hooray! So glad you’re enjoying this recipe, Jacqui! Thanks for taking time to leave a kind note! Blessings, Kelly
Can these fries be made in advance and sent to school with the kids in their lunch, heated in the microwave and still be tasty?
Are you chicken nuggets good reheated in this same manner? Looking for school lunch ideas. Thank you!
Hi, Kathie. I don’t recommend microwave use. I got rid of mine due to my personal research into it and it’s affects on food. I know not everyone agrees with this and therefore I don’t try to push my views. But regardless of my personal choice to not microwave, I still wouldn’t recommend reheating the fries in a micro, as they will be quite limp-soggy. Both the chicken nuggets and fries reheat great in a small toaster oven – nice and crunchy results! Yum! However, my kids eat the chicken nuggets, as well as my oven baked chicken drumsticks cold. They’re actually quite good that way. Blessings to you, Kelly
P.S. I have a lot of lunch ideas in my “Lunch” category, including some new posts for back-to-school. Hope you’ll pop over and check them out: http://thenourishinghome.com/lunch/
I stumbled across your website and I am so happy I did! I made these french fries for dinner and my husband(who is very picky) stated they need to be on the menu again. The entire pan was gone in no time. Thank you so much for sharing these recipes. It feels great knowing that I am providing healthier food choices for my family. Sending major kudos from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Muchas gracias, Jennifer! My hubby and I have a huge affection for Cubans – our church has done mission work there and the people are so beautiful! So glad you enjoyed this recipe! Please keep in touch! Blessings, Kelly