French fries in Belgium. Belgian fries. Modern recipe at home

It is not at all necessary to go to a McDonald's fast food restaurant to treat yourself and friends to such a dish as It is quite easy to cook on your own, at home. Even if you don’t have special appliances (for example, a deep fryer), an ordinary pan is also suitable for frying, and the result of labor, so to speak, can exceed all expectations and turn out even tastier than in a restaurant fast food. Deep-fried potatoes are good as a treat for children and as a beer snack for adults. You can also use it as a side dish for many meat and fish dishes of European cuisine.

The birthplace of french fries

Some countries - Belgium, France, Britain, the United States - have previously fought for the right to primacy. According to European tradition, the birthplace of french fries is Belgium. And not the United States at all, as one might assume. According to the Belgian National Museum, crispy appeared already in 1700! In those years, Belgian fishermen fried a small fish whole in a pan and ate it. But when the winters got harsh and the rivers froze, people couldn't go fishing. Then they cut out various figures of fish from potatoes, fried them in oil and ate them. The museum also houses a collection of antique fryers collected by one of the admirers of the dish, paintings depicting Belgian bistros, photos of pink potato tubers from Peru used for frying.

Legend

But what about "British" chips and "French" potatoes? The chefs representing these countries fundamentally disagree with the "Belgian" version of origin and dispute it in every possible way. However, the Belgians have a spare for this case, proving that the homeland of french fries is their country. During the First World War, American soldiers, while in French-speaking Wallonia (Belgium), tried this dish and mistakenly gave it the name "French".

old recipe

So, the birthplace of french fries is Belgium. Let's try, paying tribute to traditions, to cook this dish according to the classic old Belgian recipe (as they cooked in a bistro).

We will need: potatoes - one kilogram, beef fat - 200 grams, salt. As a deep fryer, if it is not at hand in the kitchen, you can use a large frying pan with a thick bottom and high sides or a saucepan.

French fries (photo on the right) are peeled and cut into "straws" (or you can, as in the old days, cut out fish figures from tubers). Next - melt in a deep fryer over medium heat so that it actually boils. Fry the pieces in fat until golden brown, constantly turning them over. Then we take out with a special spatula and set aside for ten to fifteen minutes. Then we produce a secondary frying of the product for several minutes. French fries (photo below) according to an old Belgian recipe are ready. characteristic feature of this dish is that the product is fried twice in beef fat. In addition, figurines of fish carved from tubers give a special piquancy to the dish. In the country where french fries were invented, you can still try a dish cooked in this way in the old fashioned way in the bistro.

deep fried

Modern French fries are, of course, not prepared with pure beef fat. For such frying, deep-frying is used (from the French word for "roasting"). The cooking method, by the way, is called similarly - deep-fried. It usually uses a mixture of vegetable and animal fats.

The cooking method itself is quite old. Even in China, similar dishes were known. The product being prepared is, as it were, cooked in a mixture that should completely cover it. The total mass of fat should exceed the mass of potatoes by about four times. Deep-fried potatoes should be cut into strips, no more than one centimeter thick (better - thinner). When frying, potato slices should move freely in the dishes (deep fryer or pan that replaces it).

Mix recipes

Here are some recipes for cooking mixtures for deep-fried potatoes:

• 50 percent vegetable oil, 50 percent rendered beef fat;
• 40 percent vegetable oil, 30 - pork, 30 - beef fat;
• 50 percent vegetable oil, 50 percent cooking oil.

Butter is not suitable for mixtures (sometimes, however, ghee is used for donuts) and margarine.

Modern recipe at home

In a deep fryer or thick-bottomed pan, heat the deep-frying mixture (use the recipes above). It should almost boil. We clean the potatoes and cut into strips. Salt, let dry. Some cooks dry the pieces with a cotton towel. In any case, there should not be water on the potatoes, since when it comes into contact with deep fat, you will get “fireworks”! When the mixture boils, lower the straw into it so that the deep fat covers the product completely. Fry for three to five minutes until golden brown. We take it out of the pan with a slotted spoon. Let the oil drain from the potatoes. Serve hot, traditionally with ketchup.

ketchup recipe

You can make your own french fries sauce at home. In any case, it will be much tastier than store-bought.

We will need: a kilogram of tomatoes, two large spoons of sugar, salt, garlic, spices - to taste, fresh chopped greens, ground pepper, a little table vinegar (you can use lemon juice).

We cut the tomatoes finely. Place all ingredients in a blender and mix until a homogeneous mass is formed. Delicious ketchup for french fries is ready! Bon appetit everyone!

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Before buying a franchise, I was a student and worked part-time. I have no experience in catering. Franchises were gaining popularity and I was considering a coffee shop. The only embarrassing thing was that there were too many outlets with coffee.
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For many, fragrant sticks of fried potatoes in oil are their favorite treat. And Belgium is exactly the country where it is best to enjoy its indescribable taste.

Belgium is the birthplace of french fries

The Belgians are absolutely sure that french fries first appeared with them, and they are sincerely indignant when they are called French Fries - French potatoes. Residents even found an explanation for this fact: they say that the wrong name appeared due to the fault of American soldiers. While tasting French fries in Wallonia, Belgium during World War I, they heard French and mistakenly "attributed" the delicacy to the wrong cuisine.

In Belgium, there is also a legend about the appearance of a favorite national dish. It says that in the old days in the country they liked to fry fish in oil. But in winter it was impossible to go fishing on the frozen river. And then the savvy locals came up with the idea of ​​​​putting potato cubes in boiling oil. The result was amazing, and the recipe quickly spread everywhere.