If you love potatoes, you know very well when that craving (or should I say Kraving;))) kicks in, you just cannot shut it down! It is like that itch that you just cannot ignore, or satisfy by scratching indirectly. You have to go all in and satisfy it. When I had one of such kravings a few weeks ago, I decided to make fries. I rarely eat fries, but when I do, especially at home, I like to make it worth while and usually, that involves making masala fries. Including this one, so far as at 2017 we ahve three masala fries recipes on this blog. I made this first masala fries recipe in 2015 (check it out if you have not and please forgive my photography skills back then I was struggling :DD), this other one that everyone loves that has garlic and rosemary as the main flavor notes and today’s recipe takes it all to a stratospheric level!! No mediocre! Because as you know you know, with K, things are always FIRE!!
Today we have the most perfect Friday/ weekend recipe: Honey Whiskey Masala Fries
PREP TIME: 10 MIN MAKE TIME:25 MIN SERVES: 1
Ingredients
4 potatoes, peeled and chopped
1/4 cup of whiskey
1/2 a red onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tomato, grated
1 tablespoon of tomato paste
1 tablespoon of honey
4 cloves of garlic, minced
1/4 of green bell pepper (or coriander), finely chopped for garnish
1/2 a 1/2 a teaspoon of black pepper
1/4 teaspoon of turmeric
1/4 teaspoon of paprika
Vegetable oil for frying
Salt to taste
Method
In a pan, add your vegetable oil and heat it. Add your peeled and chopped potatoes and allow them to cook until done. Once that is done, remove your fries from the heat, drain any excess oil and add them to a bowl. After that is done, begin working on your sauce.
In a sufuria, add your red onion, garlic, the spices and allow this to cook down until the onions have softened and the garlic is fragrant.
Add your tomatoes,finely chopped chillies, lemon juice and the tomato paste and honey. Add the honey a table spoon at a time. Taste your tomatoes and if need be add more. If you add too much at a time, this will throw off the taste of everything. Be very careful at this stage; you want mildly sweet spicy fries, not honey fries.
Let this simmer down for about 5 minutes. Add your whiskey and allow this to simmer for 5-9 minutes for all the alcohol to cook off. Remember, we only need 1/4 cup for the quantities I have used. The sauce needs to have **a hint** of booziness, not taste like a shot. A little goes a long way.
Besides whiskey, I would recommend brandy, a dry white wine or rum. If you choose not to use any alcohol for one reason or another, feel free to leave it out, but your fries will not have the (amazing!!!) boozy kick as a result.
I know one of you is thinking: “So, will I get drunk when I cook with Whiskey (or any alcoholic drink)? “
The answer: NO
Cooking is very much a science as it is an art. Do you guys remember when we were learning about various liquid boiling points during Chemistry class in high school? We learnt that alcohol has a very low boiling point. Meaning, it evaporates very fast when heat is applied. Now, when you cook with an alcoholic beverage, the alcohol evaporates in the very early stages of cooking. It is cooked off. What is left behind is the other ingredients and flavors that were used to make the alcoholic beverage; and that is EXACTLY what we are after. We cook with alcohol not to get high (which doesn’t even happen), but to get to the other layered flavors there in. Please please remember this! When someone tells you they got high after eating food cooked with alcohol, just know they are lying because you know and understand the science behind what happens when you cook with alcohol.
After about 10 more minutes, the sauce will have thickened and the flavors completely melded, remove the sauce from the heat and pour it onto the fries.
Toss them until completely coated. The sauce needs to be thick so that it coats the fries well. You want juicy looking fries, not fries that look like they have been soaked in watery stew.
Once done, sit on the kitchen floor, eat from the damn bowl like a hungry demon and lick it clean serve. Garnish with your bell pepper (or coriander) then serve!
I think I do not need to go deep into convincing you how delicious my honey whiskey masala fries are! I gave you a teaser on twitter and you guys said thought end of January was too far to have the recipe. Thank God, the wait is over!! This is simply a MUST TRY recipe for all.
Enjoy this with something meaty like my thyme and garlic goat meat dry fry along with a light kachumbari or a fruity salad for balance. Or if you please, have it on their own, with a tall glass of your fave juice.
The beauty about these masala fries is of course the hint of booziness. Make sure your sauce it thick so that it coats the fries well. The fries are still dominantly hot, but the sweetness of the honey peeks through balancing everything out. These were so delicious I had to hold myself back as I was about to fix myself another plate.
Can we please make 2017 the year that food pics become downloadable onto your table, hot and ready!? But as we wait for that, give this recipe a try :))
To fantastic food!
-K
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Hey there! My name is Kaluhi and I love food! Through my blog, I am happy to share with you my self-taught recipes, steeped in nostalgia and the happiest of memories. I hope each recipe you try out is as addictive as the previous one and is shared on a table full of love and hearty laughs!
Ah, Kaluhi, seeing this recipe certainly doesn’t help one with their 2017 resolution of staying away from fries. Nom Nom!
I am the diet destroyer in chief :DDD. You can stick to your diet, but abit of indulgence is ok. Just a little bit ;))
Looks yum!! Will definitely give it a try.Tell me, which alcoholic drink can be used in cooking different dishes? your top picks that i could choose from? I don’t want to open a mini bar in my kitchen:)
Alcoholic drinks are pretty flexible as a kitchen ingredient, and you can pretty mush play aroung with them. There is plenty of information on the internet about the same, but I will give you a summary based on my personal opinion and preferences
-Beer/vodka/ whiskey : marinades, sauces, cocktails, meat stews (in moderation) , dips
-Red wine: red meat stews, sauces that accompany red meats, red meat marinades, splashed over fruit salads, sangrias
-white wine: white meat marinades, sauses that accompany white meats, white meat marinades, splashed over vegetable salads or vegetable sautees, sangrias
**You can also make bread with beer since it has yeast and enhances the flavor.
-Creme Liqueurs (amarula, baileys, st.remys) : sweet dishes like pancakes, crepes, macerated strawberries, fruit salad, cakes, puddings, mousse, panna cotta, frosting etc
I may have left out plenty of other options, but incase you buy a drink and you may not be sure how to use it, or need more options as to how to use it, just ask me on any of my social media platforms :)). I will be glad to guide you :**
I love this!! Gotta try and make it ❤
100% you MUST!!!!!!!!
Tried this recipe out over the weekend…lets just say it was such a hit..the combination of whisky and honey is amazing….
I am so so stoked that you love one of my all time favorite masala fries recipe!!! <3
yeey!!!i did this. Thats our diner tonight, super delicious.!
The best masala fries ever right??! So glad you loved this :))
Have to try this
For sure! And do let me know how it goes :))
Hey where can i get those wooden plates. they look really nice
Masai Market
I just made this!!! Omg so delicious!!! I didn’t have whiskey so I used orange liquor!
Freakin bomb! Perfect mix of sweet n spice!!
AWESOME!!!!! So glad you enjoyed this!! This was without doubt the best masala fries recipe EVER!!!
So Kaluhi you have decided to make my Love for potatoes just go over board. I will try this out. However should my house gets hooked this shall be your fault. 😁😁😁
i will make this and keep the whiskey as my secret ingredient…thanks girl
Whiskey does make a fab cooking ingredient!!!
Can you use vodka instead of whisky
NO. The recipe is called honey WHISKEY masala fries
Like a hungry demon!! Hahaha.. Yum!!
LOL! That is what good food does to you! :DDDD
Oh my God!!! Been following you for a while…. I had some whiskey in the house I decided to give it a try
Best masala frys. Hats off
This is by far the best masala fries recipe on the face of the earth! I am glad you enjoyed it as much as I did <3
Tasty!
For sure!!!! <3