Parmesan Oven Fries
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These Parmesan Oven Fries are tossed in an irresistible garlic and parmesan coating, making them the perfect side or snack. It’s all the flavor and crunch you love about fried fries, but without all the mess!
Easy Garlic Parmesan Fries
You gotta love potatoes! They’re filling, fairly inexpensive, and I can come up with a hundred delicious ways to prepare them off the top of my head: Mashed Potato Cakes… Roasted Potatoes… Stewed Potatoes… Cheesy Mashed Potatoes… my brain just keeps going and going.
But honestly, crispy fries? They’ll always have my heart.
These big old potato wedges are what I like to call parmesan oven fries. Kids love ’em, teens love ’em, and adults come running. Tender on the inside and crispy on the outside, these oven-baked fries are seasoned to perfection for the best results every time.
Ingredients
- Baking potatoes
- Salt
- Garlic powder
- Butter (or margarine)
- Parmesan cheese
What are the best potatoes for baked French fries?
I’d go with russet or Yukon gold potatoes for these garlic parm fries. They’re starchy with low moisture, which makes them perfect for getting that crispy outside.
Make ‘Em Your Own!
Try switching up this oven fries recipe with your favorite seasonings, like:
- Cajun seasoning
- Swap garlic powder for garlic herb seasoning
- Use seasoning salt instead of sea salt
- Add chili powder
- Add 2 teaspoons of Italian seasoning
- Ranch seasoning
- Replace garlic powder with 3 minced garlic cloves
*If dairy-free, you can use a dairy-free butter alternative or substitute with olive oil or coconut oil.
How to Make Parmesan Oven Fries
1. To start, preheat the oven to 375°F. Then mix up your parmesan, garlic powder, and salt in a shallow dish.
2. Cut each potato into 8 long wedges. Then set up a station with melted butter in a dish, a topping mixture in a dish, and your potatoes, along with a baking sheet that you’re going to cook them on.
3. Roll the cut sides in the parmesan garlic mixture. The side with the skin on it doesn’t need to be coated.
4. Place potatoes on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 30-40 minutes, or until they are tender and golden brown.
5. Serve with a garnish of chopped fresh parsley or cilantro and your favorite dipping sauce. Enjoy!
Can I cook my parmesan fries in the air fryer?
Absolutely! To make air fryer French fries, you’ll need to do smaller batches, but bake your fries in a 390°F air fryer for 10 minutes on one side and about 5 minutes on the other.
What Goes Great with These Garlic Parmesan Oven Fries
These incredibly flavored parmesan oven fries go with just about anything, or are amazing all on their own!
You can serve these oven fries with all kinds of main meals, like my Classic Reuben Sandwich, Fried Chicken, Italian Beef Sandwich, and Drip Beef Sandwiches.
Another option is to serve these parmesan fries as an appetizer with a delicious dipping sauce, like ketchup, our Homemade Tartar Sauce, Comeback Sauce, Chipotle Ranch Dressing, or Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce.
Storage
If you do have any leftovers, you can store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days and reheat them in the air fryer.
Parmesan Oven Fries
With an irresistible garlic and parmesan cheese coating, these crunchy yet soft parmesan oven fries are perfect with just about anything.
Ingredients
- 3 medium potatoes
- 4 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted 1/2 stick
- 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Wash the potatoes and cut each one into 8 spears.
- In a shallow dish, combine the parmesan, garlic powder, and salt. Dip the sides of each potato wedge into the melted butter on all sides, then dip just the cut sides into the parmesan mixture.
- Arrange in a single layer, skin side down, on a large baking sheet. Bake at 375°F for 30-40 minutes, or until potatoes are tender and golden brown.
Oven fries are the best! I’m going to make this variety tonight!
These look so yummy. Can’t wait to make these for my family. I’ve never meet a potato that I didn’t like! lol
I have made these for years and the taste is incredible. The only thing I do differently is I put the garlic powder, salt and cheese in a zip lock bagtg a and shake to cover all of the potato.
Just cuts down on the mess, just a little.:)
You’re brilliant 🙂
Christy – can use use olive oil instead of butter?
Yes Ma’am!
Thank you!
These sound and look so good! I am trying them tonight…Christy, I just want you to know that when I am feeling down about something, all I have to do is read your posts and my attitude magically changes. Thank you for being such a postitive influence!
Oh Brenda, you just warmed my heart. You have no idea what that means to me, thank you so much for being such a dear hearted encourager!
Gratefully,
Christy
I would like to know if anyone has ever tried these with the red skin potatoes? I love most anything with parmesan!
I haven’t made this recipe but like red potatoes and bake them often so I would think they would do fine i this recipe.
I haven’t tried this particular recipe but I’ve made red potatoes using similar recipes and see absolutely no reason why they wouldn’t be wonderful 🙂
Potatoes are my favourite vegetable. Everybody that knows me knows that. They are just a wonder food. Fry them, bake them, mash them, put them in a salad, top with cheese, sprinkle with salt, smother in gravy….oh it’s endless.
Yeah I love potatoes. I ate mash potatoes AND fried potatoes with dinner tonight.
And that is just another reason why you’re my hero, Su! 🙂
Oh my gracious… definiately my “all time favorite vegetable” too! I could probably sustain on a deserted island, as long as I had POTATOES! Love love love them, I can’t stand all the media and political correctness with “all the root vegetables, either! I’ll stick to my potatoes, as for me and my house!
Sounds delicious, I’m trying this one out for dinner tonight too! Y U M!!!!