Perfect Crispy AF Fat Free French Fries (2024)

AF is of course an abbreviation of aqua-faba (yes, the water from a can of beans).

Danish version

But I’m gonna be honest and say that just to make sure aquafaba was actuallymaking a difference in this recipe, I went ahead and also tested it with soy milk and with water. It turns out this actually works okay, but aquafaba does make for the most crispy result and its easyer to get the flour to stick. So if you sub aquafaba the meaning of the abfreviation in Crispy AF French Fries can be found in the Urban Dictionary.

Im very much into low fat and oil free cooking, but I’m even more into potatoes. So I’ll always welcome a tasty combination of those two. Last year I added a recipe for what I call Shaken Potatoes where you steam the diced potatoes, coat them in flour and bake them. They get super crisp and I’ve been wanting to do something similar with fries. But the ‘shake’ part of that recipe doesn’t go well with the fragile (when steamed) frieshape. and without steaming them, potatoes don’t easily take on flour. So when people in the aquafaba test group started using 1) aquafaba as a replacement for oil in baking and 2) aquafaba breading for frying tofu I started thinking, well maybe aquafaba in some sort of combination with clever breading can help me crisp up those fries without any oil. (I tested using nothing but aquafaba on oven baked wedged potatoes and though it’s super for getting the spices to stick, it won’t give you the crispy surface)

I stumbled upon several peoplementioning rice flour giving the most crispy result for breading so this was my first choice for the breading. And I went a little something like this:

RICE FLOUR (+salt) > AQUAFABA > RICE FLOUR

If you pad the freshly cut fris with a clean papertowel the first round of rice flour will sit neatly like this:

After a layer of aquafaba and another dip into the rice flour, they’re ready to go into the oven:

And there you have it: Crispy AF fat free french fries that go well withany McDougall, TSS, raw till 4 or other low fat way of eating.

Sadly one tray is rarely enough and putting a double batch in the oven might cause them not to crisp up due to the high humidity. That’s why I prefer to make these fabulous crispy fat free french fries when I’m home alone – cause then I can have the whole tray to myself 😉 Enjoy!