Oven-Baked Fries with Roasted Garlic & Herb Butter

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These fries have the perfect combination of crisp exterior and fluffy interior.  People who try them are amazed at just how fabulous they are without any frying.  The trick is in the technique that I use to bake them.  (Covering the baking pan tightly with foil during the beginning stage of baking is the key!)  Once you start making fries this way, I doubt that you'll ever switch back to any other way.

The Private Selection™ Roasted Garlic & Herbs Finishing Butter worked so incredibly well with this recipe.  I loved the ease of using the finishing butter.  All of the flavor components were all right in the butter, so not much else was needed in terms of ingredients to take basic baked fries from mundane to magical!

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Butter-Garlic Oven-Baked Fries

Once you try this recipe, I'm pretty confident that you'll not return to making homemade fries any other way. The technique of covering the fries with foil during the initial minutes of baking results in such a fluffy, creamy interior. Yet, the exterior is nothing short of fabulously crisp, blistered and golden thanks to the ultra high heat utilized while the fries are uncovered during the remainder of the baking process.

 

 

And, perhaps the highlight of these fries is the garlic butter that the baked fries get tossed in. Glorious. It truly takes these already amazing fries simply over the top.