French fries are a favorite dish of many, which can be enjoyed in any fast food restaurant.
It, of course, cannot be called useful, since it is cooked in large quantities of oil, but sometimes you can treat yourself to delicious, crispy potatoes.
It’s rather difficult to cook french fries at home if you don’t have a deep fryer, because you don’t want to bother with pans.
Here, a multicooker comes to the aid of modern housewives.
Today, almost every kitchen has this miraculous unit, in which you can cook not only porridge or soup, but also fragrant, crispy potatoes with a delicious crust.
Fans of french fries no longer need to buy kitchen appliances that you will use only a few times a year, a multicooker can do this very well.
French fries in a slow cooker - basic principles of cooking
To cook french fries in a slow cooker you need a very small set of ingredients. We only need potatoes, oil, salt and spices.
The slow cooker has special modes with which you can cook crisp. Basically, this dish is prepared in the following modes: "Baking", "Deep fryer", "Multipovar".
The main secret of delicious french fries in a slow cooker is to choose the right potato and butter.
Early potato varieties are not suitable for this dish, as it contains a lot of starch. As a result, the potatoes simply turn into mashed potatoes. Choose late varieties, with a pink skin and a yellowish core. Tubers should not be damaged or rot. Take even, fairly large potatoes of the same size.
Oil is preferably used deodorized or refined. Its aroma will not interrupt the smell of potatoes, and the dish will turn out not too greasy. Although this is not important, there are lovers of real sunflower oil with a pronounced aroma.
Peel the potato. To deep-fry it is crushed. long blocks, up to a centimeter thick. Cutting thinner is not worth it, otherwise it will fall apart when frying, and thick whetstones will not have time to fry. Then the potatoes are washed to rinse off the starch residues and dried well on a disposable towel.
To make the potato really crispy and tasty, it is better to cook it in small portions.
The slow cooker is installed in baking mode. Timer set for an hour. Sunflower oil is poured into the container and waiting for it to heat up, but not boil. Dip the potatoes in portions and fry them for six minutes, stirring occasionally so that it is evenly fried. Then put the potatoes on a paper towel so that the excess oil is absorbed. So fry all the potatoes and cool it. Then bring the oil in a container to a boil and once again fry the potatoes in small portions for two minutes. Spread it on a paper towel. Season with salt and spices before serving.
Various sauces served with french fries.
Recipes of French fries in a slow cooker basically differ only in the choice of the mode in which you will cook this dish.
Recipe 1. Potato in a slow cooker. Classic recipe
Ingredients
six potato tubers;
table salt;
800 ml of sunflower oil.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potato tubers peel, cut them into cubes a centimeter thick.
2. Put the cubes in a deep bowl and fill them with lightly salted water. Leave the potatoes for half an hour.
3. After this time, boil the potatoes in the same water for ten minutes.
4. Drain the water and put the potatoes on a disposable towel. Dry and cool it completely.
5. Pour sunflower oil into the tank of the multicooker. Set the unit to “Baking” mode and heat it well.
6. Put the potato wedges in the butter and fry them until they are covered with a golden crust.
7. Transfer the potatoes to a dish covered with a disposable towel to get rid of excess fat. Serve fries with sauce.
Recipe 2. Potato fries in the piquant crock-pot
Ingredients
seven potatoes;
sea salt;
700 ml of sunflower oil;
ground black and red pepper;
ground paprika.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potato tubers and cut them into centimeter thick bars.
2. Transfer the chopped potatoes into a bowl and fill with water. Leave it for half an hour. This procedure will remove starch residues. After this time, drain the water, and dry the potatoes on a disposable towel.
3. In a separate bowl, mix all the spices with salt and pour a little sunflower oil.
4. Put the potatoes in the prepared spicy mixture and mix. Leave it in this mixture for at least half an hour.
5. Turn on the baking mode on the multicooker. Set the timer for forty minutes. Pour oil into a container, wait until it has warmed up well, and put potato sticks in it. Close the lid and cook for half an hour. Stir the potato and continue cooking for another ten minutes without closing the lid.
Recipe 3. French fries in a slow cooker in the "Free" mode
Ingredients
450 g of frozen potatoes (semi-finished product);
ground black pepper;
one and a half liters of sunflower oil;
sea salt.
Cooking method
1. Pour oil into the tank of the multicooker. Turn on the "Free" mode on it.
2. When the sunflower oil is sufficiently hot, put the potatoes in a deep-frying basket and dip them into the hot oil.
3. We keep the basket until all the potato wedges are covered with a golden crust.
4. Take out the basket with potatoes, put it on a plate covered with paper towels, season with salt and pepper. Serve with the sauce.
Recipe 4. French fries in a slow cooker in the Multi-Cook mode
Ingredients
kg of potatoes;
table salt;
one and a half liters of sunflower refined oil;
spices.
Cooking method
1. Peel potato tubers and rinse well. Chop them with bars about a centimeter thick. Put the potatoes in a deep bowl and fill it with cold drinking water. Leave for half an hour. Then drain the water, and dry the potato wedges on a paper towel.
2. Pour oil into the tank of the multicooker. Set the unit to the "Multiple cook" mode. Set the temperature to 160 C.
3. Once the oil has warmed up well, dip the potatoes into it and fry for ten minutes.
4. Cover the plate with paper napkins and put the finished french fries in it. This will get rid of excess fat and make the dish not so harmful. Salt dried potatoes and sprinkle with spices.
Recipe 5. Frozen French Fries in a Slow Cooker
Ingredients
kg of potatoes;
coarse salt;
liter of refined sunflower oil.
Cooking method
1. Peel and cut the potatoes into centimeter thick bars. Rinse well again and leave in water for half an hour. Then we drain the water, and dry the potatoes well. We shift it into a plastic bag and send it for three hours to the freezer. This will allow you to get crispy potatoes on the outside and soft potatoes on the inside.
2. After three hours, we take out the potatoes and leave it for ten minutes at room temperature.
3. Turn on the multicooker in the network and set it to the "Baking" mode. Pour the sunflower oil into the container and heat it well.
4. Put the potatoes in the hot oil and fry for a quarter of an hour. Then we carefully take out the potatoes, transfer it to a plate covered with a disposable towel and sprinkle with coarse salt. Serve with sauce to your taste.
Recipe 6. Potato fries in a slow cooker if there are no "slow cooker" or "free" modes
Ingredients
six potato tubers;
coarse salt;
700 ml of refined sunflower oil.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potatoes, cut them into strips, a centimeter thick. We wash the potatoes under the tap and dry it thoroughly.
2. Pour oil into the capacity of the multicooker, turn on the “Baking” mode and close the lid. The oil should warm up well.
3. Put the chopped potatoes in the hot oil, mix and fry for 20 minutes. At the same time, do not close the lid of the unit. In the process of cooking, mix the potatoes several times.
4. Spread the finished french fries on disposable towels to get rid of excess fat. Salt, season and stir.
Recipe 7. Sauce for French Fries in an Assorted crock-pot
Ingredients
100 ml ketchup;
5 g of mustard;
200 ml of mayonnaise;
a quarter teaspoon of Tabasco sauce;
two cloves of garlic;
half onion.
Cooking method
1. In a deep cup, mix the ketchup with mayonnaise. Peel the onion and garlic cloves.
2. Onion crumble as small as possible. Grind the garlic on a garlic grinder.
3. Vegetables are added to the mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup, here we put Tabasco sauce and mustard. Mix everything well and serve to french fries
Recipe 8. Cheese sauce for French fries in a slow cooker
Ingredients
30 g butter;
70 g Cheddar cheese;
75 g of flour;
milk - 150 ml.
Cooking method
1. In a stewpan, melt the butter, add flour to it and cook, constantly stirring, until the mixture boils. Remove the stewpan from the heat and gradually pour the milk.
2. The container is again sent to the fire and cook, constantly stirring, until the mixture becomes thick.
3. Add the grated cheese to the sauce and keep it on fire until it is completely dissolved. Cheese sauce served with French fries in a slow cooker.
Recipe 9. Creamy sauce for French fries in a slow cooker
Ingredients
200 ml cream;
50 g of fresh herbs basil and dill;
30 ml of milk;
10 g of starch;
120 g of cheese.
Cooking method
1. Cheese cut into small pieces. Pour the cream into a saucepan and heat. We spread the cheese in warm cream and bring them to a boil with constant stirring until it is completely dissolved completely.
2. We dilute starch in milk and stir until smooth. Pour the mixture into a cream in a thin stream.
3. Rinse the basil and dill, dry and finely chop. We shift the greens into the sauce, salt and season with spices. Keep it on fire for a couple of minutes and cool. Pour the sauce into a saucepan and serve with french fries.
French fries in a slow cooker - tips and tricks
Cooking french fries in a slow cooker is only possible provided that the bowl is coated without damage
Never salt the potatoes before or during frying, otherwise it will become soft. Salt only cooked french fries. In extreme cases, you can slightly add salt.
To make the potato as from a real fast food, fry it in small portions.
Soak the chopped potatoes for a while in cold drinking water. This will remove starch residues.
Be sure to dry the potatoes well before immersing in oil.
