Chef John’s Cottage Fries

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Description

While they don’t get the same love as French fries, home fries, or steak fries, cottage fries more than hold their own against their potato side dish fraternity brothers.

Ingredients

  • 4 baking (russet) potatoes, sliced into 3/8-inch thick rounds
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
  • 1 pinch herbes de provence, or to taste
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
  2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat and set aside.
  3. Combine potatoes
  4. salt
  5. ground black pepper
  6. cayenne pepper
  7. and herbes de provence in a large bowl. Drizzle olive oil over potatoes and stir to evenly coat.
  8. Place potatoes on baking sheet
  9. spaced evenly
  10. and bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
  11. Remove from oven
  12. flip over each potato slice
  13. and return to the oven for another 15 minutes. Continue cooking and flipping until potatoes are well browned
  14. about 30 minutes. Potatoes should be crispy around edges
  15. but still soft in the center.

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Servings: 4

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