French fries

French fries
French fries seasoned with salt
A pile of french fries sprinkled with coarse salt
Alternative namesChips, finger chips, fries, frites, hot chips, steak fries, slap chips
CourseSide dish or snack, rarely as a main dish
Place of originFrance and Belgium
Serving temperatureHot
Main ingredients
VariationsCurly fries, shoestring fries, steak fries, sweet potato fries, chili cheese fries, poutine, crinkle cut fries, waffle fries
Other informationOften served with salt and ketchup, mayonnaise, vinegar, barbecue sauce or other sauce

French fries (North American English & British English), chips (British and other national varieties),[1] finger chips (Indian English),[2] french-fried potatoes, or simply fries, are batonnet or julienne-cut[3] deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium or France. They are prepared by cutting potatoes into even strips, drying them, and frying them, usually in a deep fryer. Pre-cut, blanched, and frozen russet potatoes are widely used, and sometimes baked in a regular or convection oven; air fryers are small convection ovens marketed for frying potatoes.

French fries are served hot, either soft or crispy, and are generally eaten as part of lunch or dinner or by themselves as a snack, and they commonly appear on the menus of diners, fast food restaurants, pubs, and bars. They are often salted and may be served with ketchup, vinegar, mayonnaise, tomato sauce, or other sauces. Fries can be topped more heavily, as in the dishes of poutine, loaded fries or chili cheese fries. French fries can be made from sweet potatoes instead of potatoes. A baked variant, oven fries, uses less or no oil.[4]

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  2. ^ Indian English, "finger chip". Cambridge Dictionary Online. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  3. ^ Taihua Mu, Hongnan Sun, Xingli Liu, Potato Staple Food Processing Technology, p. 14, Springer, 2016 ISBN 9811028338.
  4. ^ "Chunky oven chips". BBC Good Food. BBC. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2016.