Homemade Potato Chips Recipe

Due to its fantastic flavor and tempting color, potato chips are still America’s favorite snack. In fact, the potato chips has become one of the most popular snacks all over the world. There is no doubt that ripping open a bag of store-bought potato chips in utterly and completely easier than slicing and drying and frying and draining your own. Yet easier, as we all know, is not always better. Homemade potato chips aren't just crazy delicious, they’re fun to make. How to enjoy such a wonderful snack with fun? An easy potato chips recipe will helps a lot.


Total Time:
Prepare Time: 40 minutes
Cook Time: 20minutes   
What you’ll need:
4 medium potatoes
1 quart oil for deep frying
3 tablespoon salt
Paper towel

How to cook it:

1. Wash and peel the potatoes. And then slice the potatoes with a mandoline or food processor with a slicing attachment. According to the previous experience, slicing them as thin as a paper can ensure the final flavor.
2. Place potato slices into a large bowl of cold water as you slice. Drain, and rinse, then refill the bowl with water, and add the salt. Let the potatoes soak in the salty water for at least 30 minutes. Drain, then rinse and drain again.
3. Heat oil in a deep-fryer to 365 degrees F (185 degrees C). Fry potato slices in small batches. Once they start turning golden, remove and drain on paper towels. Continue until all of the slices are fried. Season with additional salt if desired.

How to Make Delicious French Fires at Home

Wish to make delicious french fries like McDonald’s and KFC? Don’t worry! It’s easy to make potato chips and french fries at home.

What you have to know first is that french fries in McDonald’s and KFC are made from potato powders, not sliced or striped potatoes. Still have questions about the differences, please look last news Sliced Potato Chips VS Compound French Fries.

In homemade french fries process, potatoes are striped less than 1cm. Striped potatoes are cooked in hot water for 3 minutes after soaked in salt water. Then put blanched potato strips into refrigerator to freeze. Fry frozen french fries in hot oil for 2-3 minutes before eating.

McDonald’s Ingredient of French Fries

Food in McDonald’s and KFC seems much more attractive and delicious than anywhere else. Let us have a glance at their ingredients in a list which McDonald’s has stated on YouTube.

The full raw material and ingredients of McDonald’s French Fries are as follows: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavor (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), citric acid (preservative), dimethyl polysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethyl polysiloxane) and salt.