111 Fried Potatoes with Gros Sel

Preparation info
  • For

    four

    people
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Michel Guérard

Published 1978

  • About

Pommes frites au gros sel ‘Good hefty fried potato chips’

Ingredients

Main ingredients

  • 750 g (1 lb 10 oz) waxy potatoes
  • 4

Method

  1. Peel the potatoes, then cut them lengthwise into four pieces, like the quarters of an orange. Drop them into a bowl of water as you go and keep the bowl under a running tap. Then drain them in the colander and dry thoroughly with a clean cloth.
  2. Heat the fat in a casserole, and when it starts to smoke throw in the garlic and the quartered potatoes. Reduce the he