Waffle fries without the guilt? Coming right up!
I first tried this hack when I was doing a week-long challenge to eat for $4 a day. Potatoes are cheap and healthy, so I was eating a lot of them. But my daily potato was turning into a snooze. That is, until I stumbled upon this idea somewhere on the internet: smash leftover potatoes in a waffle iron…behold, waffle fries!
Even better, these waffle fries are more than a tasty sidekick for veggie burgers. Topped with beans, sauteed onions, and barbecue sauce, they’re a dish unto themselves.
There are a few pitfalls to watch out for, though, so read through the easy steps below before jumping in.
Happy waffle fry making! đ
How to Make Waffle Fries in a Waffle Maker
When you have a hankering for waffle fries, skip the drive-thru and make this healthy version right in your own kitchen!
Ingredients
- 4 cooked Yukon gold potatoes See note
- Cooking spray
Instructions
- Lightly spray a waffle iron with cooking spray
- Slice potatoes in half. Place half a potato in each quadrant of your waffle maker.
- Smash potatoes by closing the waffle maker (you may have to apply gentle pressure to get it to close.)
- Let waffle maker run for its shortest cycle, since you want to cook potatoes until theyâre just golden. For our machine, this takes 4-5 minutes.
- Carefully remove fries from waffle maker and repeat with remaining 4 potato halves.
- (We forgot to take a photo of the finished fries from smaller potatoes, whoops! So here's one of a bigger potato done butterfly-style, just to show you what fries should look like when you open the waffle maker!)
Notes
--Choose potatoes the size of a pool ball/cue ball or a little smaller --Cook potatoes in the microwave or in an instant pot (do not boil). To cook potatoes in the microwave: 1. Wash potatoes and stab a few times with a fork. 2. Place in a microwave safe dish with a splash of water, cover, and cook 8-10 minutes, turning
potatoes once during cooking. To cook potatoes in the instant pot: Use a steamer basket filled to the top with potatoes following the directions here. Note: Do not try this with sweet potatoes. It doesn't go well!
potatoes once during cooking. To cook potatoes in the instant pot: Use a steamer basket filled to the top with potatoes following the directions here. Note: Do not try this with sweet potatoes. It doesn't go well!
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I'm Lee, an RD thriving on a healthy plant based diet.
This looks so good! Can you bake the potatoes in the oven?
I haven’t tried it, but I bet so!
Do we microwave before we put into waffle iron?
Yes, definitely microwave the potatoes first!
Why don’t sweet potatoes go well?
The sugars in sweet potatoes caramelize and stick to the waffle iron. It makes them impossible to get out–think cooked sweet potato glued to your waffle iron with sticky toffee, lol! Tasty, but will definitely ruin your waffle iron if it doesn’t have removable plates. Not that that happened to me, *cough*… ;-D
why not to boil ? i found boiling potatoes in the fastest way as i only need 20min to boil 2.5lb in a 12cup kettle
This looked so easy until I read do not boil, but use microwave. I do not understand people with the plant based mentality who still use a microwave. Can you please tell me why people who say they are healthy use a microwave to cook food. Do people not understand what that means? It means a microwave frequency is going into your food. Don’t we have enough of those with wifi and all the rest. Have at it I guess. SMH