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Healthy Loaded Fries

May 24, 2017 | After School Snacks, Budget Friendly, Side dishes, Vegetarian

Healthy Loaded Fries - My Healthy Loaded Fries are a super delicious, simple meal or side. They are also a great way to encourage chip loving kids to try new flavours too.

The cooler weather definitely lends itself to craving comfort food. A few weeks ago my kids were requesting ‘hot chips’ for lunch and as it happened, they weren’t the only ones feeling like crunchy spuds! As chips in our house is a side (not a meal) and because I didn’t want to go to too much effort, I thought I’d build on their craving for chips and create a one pan meal of sorts.

One of the ways that I have taught my kids to love a variety of foods is to take their favourites (in this case chips) and add in other healthy stuff (avo, nuts, tomato, coriander). Avocado on its own doesn’t overly appeal to my kids, but mashed into a dip and blobbed on these fries, they argue over it being divided equally – go figure!

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Take a look at the variations (below the main recipe) for suggestions to alter the recipe to suit any specific dietary requirements.

Healthy Loaded Fries

Prep 30 minutes
Cook 40 minutes
Total 50 minutes
Serves: 4 small serves
Healthy loaded fries
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So here we have it – my take on ‘heathy loaded fries’. A quick, easy, oh-so delicious snack or meal that the whole family will love.

Ingredients

  • 4 tbsp butter, ghee or olive oil
  • 1.5 kg potato/s (and/or sweet potatoes) scrubbed clean and cut into 'fries'
  • 1 tsp sea salt - or to taste
  • ½ tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 30 g flaked almonds (¼ cup)
  • 4 spring onion/s -white part sliced
  • 40 g parmesan cheese (¼ cup) grated
  • 40 g feta cheese (¼ cup) crumbled
  • 2 roma tomatoe/s -seeds removed and diced
  • 1 avocado/s (large) mashed
  • ½ bunch/s fresh coriander leaves -picked from stems
  • 1 lime/s cut into wedges, to serve
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Method

  • Pre-heat your oven to 220℃/430℉ (fan-forced).
  • In a large baking dish heat the ghee or oil for 5 minutes or until the fat is hot.
  • Add the potatoes and toss to coat in the fat. Add the salt, oregano and smoked paprika and toss well again.
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until they are starting to crisp up.
  • Meanwhile, slice the spring onions and chop the tomatoes. Grate the parmesan.
  • Roughly mash the avocado in a small bowl with a good pinch of sea salt.
  • Once the potatoes are ready, top with the almonds, spring onion, parmesan and feta and pop back in the oven for another 5-10minutes.
  • Remove from the oven, scatter over the tomatoes, blobs of the mashed avocado, coriander and lime wedges
  • Enjoy immediately.

Serve

  • with your choice of simply prepared protein.

Variations

Dairy-free and vegan

Bake the fries in coconut oil and replace the cheese with ¼ cup toasted cashews (processed to a meal), then mixed with 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast, a good pinch of sea salt and a pinch of garlic powder. You can also replace the feta with a vegan (cashew) cream cheese.

Nut-free

Replace the almonds with pumpkin or sunflower seeds (or omit). 

Onion-free

Omit the spring onion. 
 

I'd love to hear how you like my loaded fries? Post a comment below, I love receiving your feedback. 

Course: Main Course Side Dish
Cuisine: American

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Category: After School Snacks, Budget Friendly, Side dishes, Vegetarian Tags: avocado, chips, coconutfree, cornfree, dairyfree, eggfree, familyfood, fries, garlicfree, glutenfree, grainfree, legumefree, lowfructose, lowsugar, meal, nutfree, onionfree, potato, seafoodfree, sesamefree, sidedish, snack, soyfree, vegan, vegetarian, wheatfree, yeastfree

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36 Comments

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  1. Jayne says

    Can’t wait to try this! I’ve been craving loaded fries but refuse to eat the fried fatty version. Thank you!

    May 26, 2017
    Reply
    • Georgia Harding says

      Hope you enjoy it Jayne G x

      May 26, 2017
      Reply
  2. Naz says

    Yummmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I mention they were yummmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    May 26, 2017
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    • Georgia Harding says

      Yay – glad you enjoyed. I think so tooooooo! G x

      May 26, 2017
      Reply
  3. Anna Anderson says

    5 stars
    Oh my word!! I made these for the first time this evening and they were DELICIOUS!

    I kept the cold additions as side options for Miss 8yo Fussy who declined the extras but helped herself to a second serving. Thanks again Georgia, yet another winner.

    March 12, 2018
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    • Georgia Harding says

      So pleased your family enjoyed it Anna – they are very yum (and thanks for taking the time to star rate the recipe too) G x

      March 15, 2018
      Reply
  4. Penny says

    5 stars
    This is so yum! We love making this on a night where we don’t feel like a huge dinner and we all sit around the baking dish on the floor n tuck in. So so yum!

    May 25, 2018
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    • Georgia Harding says

      Sounds like a great night in Penny. Thanks for your comment and rating G x

      May 26, 2018
      Reply
  5. Kate says

    5 stars
    So glad I discovered this recipe, it is delicious!!!

    November 20, 2018
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    • Georgia Harding says

      Glad you enjoyed it Kate. Thanks for rating the recipe too G x

      November 22, 2018
      Reply
  6. Emily Vandenberg says

    5 stars
    OMG A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!! Where have these been all my life. Used pumpkin seeds as I had no almonds. So quick and easy, this has been added to my go to list!

    November 12, 2019
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    • Emily Vandenberg says

      Have just had the left overs heated up with a poached egg, DELICIOUS!

      November 13, 2019
      Reply
      • Georgia Harding says

        So fabulous, thrilled you enjoyed them Emily and love the sound of adding poached eggs – yum!!! G x

        November 15, 2019
        Reply
      • Kylie Cleeland says

        Hey Emily, we are soooo doing that in the morning!

        November 29, 2019
        Reply
  7. Kylie Cleeland says

    5 stars
    Nailed it!!!! Family couldn’t get enough.. I was salivating all day thinking about it after reading all of these reviews and the dish exceeded my expectations, I can’t wait to make it again for guests. Mr 9 said “Mum this has to go on the AMAZING list”. Thanks Georgia!

    November 29, 2019
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    • Georgia Harding says

      Ha ha – love it! I’ll take amazing any day. Thanks for taking the time to review it Kylie ❤️

      December 1, 2019
      Reply
  8. Wendy says

    5 stars
    We all love this one- even the 5yr old and 2 year old! It’s made it to our list on the fridge-“Meals the whole family loves!”

    December 2, 2019
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    • Georgia Harding says

      Ah, I’m honoured to have made it to your fridge list Wendy. Hopefully the first of many ? G x

      December 5, 2019
      Reply
  9. Anna Hattingh says

    5 stars
    This was so seriously divine! Rated best meal I ever ate by my ten year old son (who’s dad is a very good chef!) thumbs up !

    February 15, 2020
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    • Georgia Harding says

      Well I’ll take that!! Thanks Anna ??❤️

      February 17, 2020
      Reply
  10. Fiona says

    5 stars
    I have to admit I was a little skeptical, but these were awesome. 10/10 Thanks for the great recipe 🙂

    February 20, 2020
    Reply
    • Georgia Harding says

      So glad you enjoyed them Fiona, cheers for the 5 ?s too Gx

      February 21, 2020
      Reply
  11. Kate Evans says

    5 stars
    These are amazing and went down an absolute treat. Thank you

    April 15, 2020
    Reply
    • Georgia Harding says

      So glad you enjoyed them and thanks for rating the recipe too Kate G x

      April 20, 2020
      Reply
  12. Sarah says

    5 stars
    Wow Georgia, these are amazing. The whole family loved them and my youngest just said “Geez, these are good”.

    April 18, 2020
    Reply
    • Georgia Harding says

      So glad you all enjoyed it and thanks for rating the recipe too Sarah G x

      April 20, 2020
      Reply
  13. SHARON says

    5 stars
    Georgia we all love this recipe. It will be on regular rotation from now on. Thank you x

    July 1, 2020
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    • Georgia Harding says

      You’re so welcome G x

      July 6, 2020
      Reply
  14. Hannah Johnson says

    5 stars
    We planned on getting takeaways for dinner but decided to make these instead and have an “inside picnic” with the kids – put the fries in the middle of the rug on the floor and all had our own small plate. My husband and I both agreed, we felt so much better after than if we had bought something chips from the shop… Another winner!

    May 18, 2021
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    • Georgia Harding says

      So glad they were a ‘fake-away’ hit Hannah G x

      May 20, 2021
      Reply
  15. Cathie Peries says

    5 stars
    This was delicious and loved by the whole family. Definitely generous portions, I decided to have the recipe for us 2A, 2K 4 & 6) we had it alongside the gluten free fish fingers and it was more than enough.

    June 28, 2021
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    • Georgia Harding says

      So glad you loved them, we love them with fish too G x

      June 30, 2021
      Reply
  16. Suzanne Hart says

    5 stars
    Perfectly easy and oh so yummy! Thanks Georgia!

    July 13, 2021
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    • Georgia Harding says

      So glad you loved them Suzanne G x

      July 15, 2021
      Reply
  17. Em says

    5 stars
    Totally delicious! Our kids loved it (even the teenage boy who is currently treating anything vaguely healthy looking w utter disdain 😂) and so did my husband and I. We left the tomato and coriander off 4 year olds, but we just took her portion out and then added all the deliciousness. Going into the weekly ‘everyone eats it’ rotation 🙂

    December 30, 2021
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    • Well Nourished Team says

      So glad it was a success 🙂

      January 4, 2022
      Reply

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