You know you love french fries. What if I
told you can make them with less guilt
and they'll be just as delicious?
So to do these great french fries
we're going to use the air fryer. That's
how we're going to cut down on the amount
of oil we're using and make them just as
crispy just as brown just as tasty. So
the first step is what potato to use. I
like to use a russet potato because the
starch content in the potato will give
me a nice brown, crispy exterior but
that delicious soft interior. So here I
have some potatoes that I have already
peeled and I'm going to cut them into half inch
strips. Once you have your potatoes cut
into those strips, it's important that we
get some of the starch out of the
potatoes. One way to do this is to soak
this in cold water for about 30 minutes,
rinsing it and washing away that starch.
And I've found a better way is to actually
blanch the potato strips in boiling water that's
been well salted for 4 minutes. 4 minutes 
of blanching time then we're going to strain them and
dry them and put them in our air fryer. So
perfect amount of time to blanch the
potatoes and preheat the air fryer.
So set a timer. We want exactly four
minutes of blanching time on those
potatoes. Once that four minutes is up you're going to turn it off. We're going to strain them.
Once you've strained them, rinse them with cold water
and then we're going to try them as best we
can with some paper towels. All of that you can do ahead of time. You can do all of this and then put those
potatoes on a sheet pan in your fridge,
waiting until you're ready to fry them.
So once you have most of that moisture
dried off, you're going to toss this with about two
teaspoons of oil. Now you choose the oil.
I love olive oil. You can use canola oil,
peanut oil, vegetable oil, whatever oil
you have. Now we're going to put it into our air
fryer. The air fryer has been preheated for
just about 4 minutes at 400 degrees.
In they go. We're going to set this back to 
400 degrees, 25 minutes. Every once in a while
you're going to come back to your air fryer
and give those potato fries a toss
just to make sure they're going to cook
evenly and now is when I'm actually going to throw
some salt on to season them.
Pop them back in and let them finish cooking. You're going to check your french fries as they cook
here. It's been 20-25 minutes. Shake them
around. These are looking gorgeous so
we're gonna toss them with a little bit of seasoning.
Up here, I have some parmesan cheese, lemon zest,
and parsley. I'm going to put that on. I'm going to add a little bit of salt.
You can smell it as soon as that lemon zest hits those hot french fries. Toss that around and now
we're going to put into it fun serving
vessel. I'll tell you one thing for sure, these are not going to last long. Thanks for watching.
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