Baked Potato Fries

What do you get when you cross baked potatoes with fries?

I'll give you a hint - it's what this blog post is about!

We love pretty much any form of potato around here, but oven fries has got to be one of our favourites. The only problem is that it takes a lot of time and effort to make oven fries, so I don't do it very often. When I saw this idea for "sliced baked potatoes" on pinterest, I thought it just might be the shortcut for making fries that I was looking for.  Was it? Yes and no. The tops got nice and crispy like oven fries, but the bottoms were liked baked potatoes, thus my conclusion that these are a cross between baked potatoes and fries. Are they still great? Absolutely!

To make baked potato fries (or sliced baked potatoes, whatever you want to call them), you'll need a couple potatoes per person, depending on how big they are. I recommend washing them and leaving the skins on.

Slice each potato into thin slices, but NOT all the way through. One way to do this is lay the handle of a spoon or butter knife on the cutting board behind the potato so that the knife you're cutting with hits it before cutting all the way through the potato.

Put all of the potatoes on a baking tray and fan out the slices.

Drizzle with melted butter or olive oil, and sprinkle with salt. Bake in a 425 degree oven for around 45 minutes, or until the slices are brown and crispy and the centres are soft.

Enjoy them plain, or load them up with your favourite baked potato toppings!