This Air Fryer French Fries Recipe will completely change the way you view fries! No more unhealthy fast food fries. Instead, here are crunchy, amazing airfryer fries made from fresh potatoes with very little oil.
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Looking at them, you would never think these fries weren’t deep fried at a restaurant, right? But instead they are made with just one tablespoon of oil, and they taste amazing! Your search is over, you just found the Best Instant Pot Air Fryer French Fries ever!
Ask any kid what their favorite food is, and many will tell you that it is french fries. But parents stay away from fast food French fries, because they are deep fried in oil, and are so unhealthy. Not anymore! With this recipe, you will be able to make this yummy potato dish often, which means your kids (or your own inner kid!) will be very happy.
So if you are making Grilled Chicken Sandwiches, Best Rotisserie Chicken or Porterhouse Steak, make sure to make these amazing fries to serve as a side dish.
Easy French Fries Recipe
To make these amazingly delicious, restaurant style French fries, you need Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid! It is so simple to use, and it makes amazingly delicious and crunchy food with just a bit of oil!
If you are wondering about whether you need to get it, make sure to ready my blog post, Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid.
Looking for more easy dinner recipes? Take a look at these:
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Instant Pot Mini Meatloaf Recipe, I have been getting so many comments on social media about these adorable mini meatloaves! They are adorable, they are delicious, they are healthy and they are easy to make. Need I say more?
Oven Baked Chicken Fajitas Recipe, healthier than at a restaurant, and faster than it would take you to get takeout! Make these chicken fajitas today.
Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid Chicken Breast, another amazing Instant Pot air fryer lid recipe, serve this delicious, flavorful chicken with the fries!
How To Cook Porterhouse Steak, another amazing air fryer recipe, this one is for chicken wings! Serve them with fries for a delicious, healthy dinner.
Homemade French Fries
Often when you are craving French fries, you immediately think of going to the fast food drive through to buy some. Don’t do that, as chances are, the fries that you buy are unhealthy.
Instead, make your own homemade french fries using the Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid, using just one tablespoon of oil! You will be amazed at how easy it is to make your own healthy fries, that taste just like the ones at the restaurant.
How to Make Crispy French Fries
We tested different ways of cooking air fryer French fries from raw potatoes, in order to maximize their crispiness.
First, we tried using similar timing to what we used for making Healthy Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries. That didn’t work that well, as regular potatoes have properties that are different from sweet potatoes.
The fries came out crispy enough, but we didn’t like the way they tasted on the inside. The inside of them seemed a bit undercooked. When we cooked them a few more minutes, the insides were cooked fine, but now the outside was way too crispy.
Next, we tried cooking them longer at a slightly lower temperature, so that the inside cooks through and the outside becomes just crispy enough at the same time. This did the trick, so the recipe for French fries is different from the recipe for Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries.
If you like your fries with even more crispiness, add a minute or two to the time in the recipe.
Which Air Fryer To Use For Making French Fries?
Great news! If you have an air fryer, use it for making these delicious spuds.
We use the Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid, that works great with an Instant Pot.
How To Make Air Fryer French Fries
These French Fries are so simple to make! Here is how:
1. Wash the potatoes well. We always peeled potatoes for the fries that we tested, but you can leave the skin on as well, if you like skin fries made from fresh potatoes. Cut potatoes into fries on a cutting board. Dry potatoes with paper towels.
2. Combine potatoes, oil and salt in a mixing bowl. We like to make classic potato fries, so we only seasoned them with salt.
If you are looking for more flavor in your delicious side dish, here are some spices you can add for more flavor:
– Rotisserie Chicken Rub, for tons of flavor.
– Best Cajun Seasoning, for Cajun fries.
– Fajita Seasoning Mix, for delicious fajita flavored fries.
3. Spray your Air Fryer Basket with some oil and add your spuds in one layer. Cook, anf flip in the middle of cooking.
4. Enjoy your delicious homemade Fench fries with Instant Pot Rotisserie Chicken and Easy Cucumber Tomato Salad With Cauliflower.
Best Easy Appetizers Finger Food
These delicious homemade air fryer French fries are amazing easy appetizers and finger food! Here are more easy appetizers finger food that you can serve:
Easy Cucumber Salmon Bites, these cucumber smoked salmon bites are the easiest appetizer ever! Ready in just 10 minutes, these elegants salmon cucumber bites are everyone’s favorite!
Extra Crispy Instant Pot and Air Fryer Lid Chicken Wings, another amazing air fryer appetizer! These chicken wings are so amazingly crispy without much oil!
Pumpkin Spice Toasted Pepitas, healthy and delicious, these toasted pepitas are perfect Keto finger food.
Blistered Shishito Peppers, these Keto Shishito Peppers taste just like the ones at the restaurant! We will show you how to make them yourself in minutes.
Avocado Deviled Eggs No Mayo, fun green avocado deviled eggs without mayo. Perfect for St Patricks Day or any other day of the year.
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Air Fryer French Fries Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 Medium Potatoes
- Pinch Salt
- Cooking Spray
- 1 tbsp Canola Oil
Instructions
- Wash and scrub potatoes. You can either leave the skin on, or peel it off. Peel the potatoes, and cut them into fries using a knife and a cutting board.2. Use paper towels to dry French fries. Put dry French fries, one tablespoon of canola oil, and a pinch of Kosher salt in a mixing bowl and mix everything together.3. Spray your Air Fryer Basket with cooking spray and put French fries in it. Only layer potatoes in one layer, so that they cook through and are crispy. Air fry for about 22 minutes at 375F, flipping them in the middle.
These are so great! Much, much healthier than those ones fried in oil.
Homemade sounds so healthy and perfect. I love the Air Fryer option too, making life healthier.
Nice and crispy without all of the oil -YUM!
I love how simple it is to make french fries in the air fryer! Delicious!
Air fryers really do make the best fries don’t they!
I love that this recipe is so easy that even my french-fry loving teenager can make them in the instant pot himself – great recipe!
Such amazing tips for amazing air fryer fries! These are a game-changer!
These fries are so good, I love using the air fryer and this was the first time making my own fries
Another great recipe for my Instant Pot! Not only was this incredibly easy to make, but they turned out perfectly crisp and flavorful; delicious!
This is our favorite way to make French fries! My family and I love it and the crunchiness! I’ll be making these more often especially for our burger nights!
When I had to replace my instant pot I got one with the air fryer lid. I love it with one little caveat it’s not big enough. I’m going to get me a larger air fryer.