Preparation time: 30 min
Cooking time: 15 min
Serves: 2

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 2 big fresh potatoes
2. 2 tsp salt (or as per your taste)

Instructions for making french fries:

1. Take fresh starch less potatoes or alugadde. Kindly look at the image.
2. Peel the potatoes.
3. After peeling immerse them in the water to avoid discoloration. I just rinsed them under running water as I used only two potatoes.
4. Next chop the potatoes in to even sized sticks. If you feel the potatoes are not fresh, soak them in the water for 15 minutes - 2 hours.
5. Meanwhile boil water along with some salt.
6. When the water starts boiling, add in chopped potato into the boiling water and cook for 2 minutes.
7. Once done, switch off the stove and drain the water completely.
8. Next spread them on a clean cotton cloth and remove the excess water. This takes around 15 minutes.
9. Now it is ready to fry. But for better result, transfer it into a zip lock cover and freeze it for 20 minutes. If you want you can keep it in the freezer for few days and fry whenever required.
10. Now heat the oil in a deep frying pan and drop the freezed potato sticks in to the hot oil. Please note, the oil should be very hot.
11. When the bubbles reduces, reduce the flame and fry them under low flame for a while.
12. Fry until slight brown and remove them using a deep frying spatula. Serve it with tomato sauce. Or sprinkle little salt and red chili powder and then serve it along with tea.

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