Maeve Cheese Fries Recipes

GINA'S GUMBO CHEESE FRIES

Steps:

• For the gumbo: Small dice the celery, onions, bell peppers and sausages. Render the sausages in a large pan over medium-high heat, 5 to 10 minutes. Add your diced veggies and then grate the garlic into the pan.
• While the veggies sweat down, get the roux started. Add the oil to a large skillet (enough to cover the bottom). Slowly add the flour to the oil and mix together. Let the roux continue to cook until it reaches a dark caramel color, about 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, sear the chicken in a small pan over high heat on both sides, then remove to a cutting board, cut into dice and reserve.
• Once that roux reaches the dark caramel color, stir in the chicken stock. The veggies should be done sweating at this time. Add your roux to the veggie mix. Your hot sauce and gumbo file can now be introduced to the mix. Next add your crawfish, shrimp and reserved diced chicken. Allow them to cook in the pot as you reach a boil on the gumbo. Makes 1 gallon.
• For the cheese fries: Preheat a deep fryer to 375 degrees and the oven to 350 degrees.
• Deep-fry the steak fries until crispy. Lay them out on a quarter sheet tray lined with wax paper. Top with the cheese and bake until the cheese melts. Slide the fries with the wax paper onto a plate and ladle 4 ounces of the gumbo on top. Garnish with chives or scallions.

GRAVY CHEESE FRIES

Steps:

• Cut potatoes into 1/4 by 1/4-inch matchstick pieces and soak in cold water, overnight. Dry thoroughly before frying. In a deep-sided skillet or deep fryer, heat oil to 350 degrees F. There should be enough oil to cover potatoes completely. Fry potatoes in oil for about 4 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove fries from oil using strainer or tongs and let fries drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with salt.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Place the fries on a cookie sheet and top them with the cheese. Place in the oven for 5 to 7 minutes, or until the cheese has melted to your liking. Remove from oven, top with gravy and serve.
• In a medium saucepan, melt butter and add flour to make a roux. While whisking often, cook the roux on medium-low heat until it is medium-deep brown in color. Whisk in beef broth slowly until it is all incorporated. Continue to cook, whisking often until gravy has thickened. Add black pepper. If you need to thin the gravy, whisk in additional beef stock or water.

CHEESE FRIES

Steps:

• Have your GH (Grown Helper) put fries in oven on a cookie sheet. While fries are baking in the oven, have a GH place a sauce pot on the stove and heat it over medium heat. Add butter and melt it. Add the flour and stir. Cook butter and flour together for 1 minute or so. This is called "roux" (like Tiger and Roo with Pooh Bear) and it helps to thicken up sauces. Use a whisk to stir as the milk goes into the pot. Keep stirring until the milk gets thicker. Use a wooden spoon or heat-safe spatula to stir in the cheese. When all of the cheese melts, take the sauce off the heat and stir in 3 squirts of ketchup. This is your SECRET ingredient. When everyone asks what you put in your cheese sauce that makes it taste so good, just say milk and cheese, you can NEVER tell what secret ingredients you add! Tell your GH to keep the secret, too or they can never help you again!
• Pour the sauce over the fries or serve the sauce on the side if you like to dipping better.

CHEESE FRIES

Steps:

• Arrange the steak fries in a single layer in 2 greased 15x10x1-in. baking pans. Bake at 450° for 15-18 minutes or until tender and golden brown. , Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the soup, milk, garlic powder and onion powder; heat through. Drizzle over fries; sprinkle with paprika.