Homemade Oven Chips: Easy, Crispy and Delicious
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Homemade oven chips are one of those really simple recipes that are worth knowing how to make. You only need potatoes, a little oil and some seasoning, and you can have a tray of hot, crispy chips on the table in around half an hour.
I’ve been making chips this way for years. We have them with all sorts of dinners during the week, including sausages, homemade burgers, fish and pie. Add some peas or baked beans and you have the makings of a very straightforward family dinner.
They’re also inexpensive to make, particularly if you already have a bag of potatoes in the cupboard that needs using.
How to Make Crispy Homemade Oven Chips
There really isn’t much to homemade oven chips. I peel the potatoes, cut them into fairly chunky chips, rinse them and give them a light coating of oil and paprika before putting them into a hot oven.
One of the most important things I’ve learned is not to overcrowd the baking tray.
Give the chips a little room around them so that they can roast and become golden rather than steaming together. If you’re making a larger quantity for the family, you’re much better using two trays than piling all of your potatoes onto one.
I usually use paprika because we like the flavour and colour it gives the potatoes, but you can leave it out or use a different seasoning if you prefer.
How Much Oil Do Oven Chips Need?
I generally use 1 tablespoon of oil for 450g of potatoes. That’s enough to give the chips a light coating and help them become golden and crisp.
But this isn’t a measurement you need to be overly strict about.
If you like your chips a little richer, more like chips that have been cooked in fat, you could use up to 2 tablespoons or more of oil for 450g of potatoes.
Equally, if you’d prefer to keep the amount of added fat lower, stick with the tablespoon or experiment with using a little less. You really only need enough oil to lightly and evenly coat the potatoes.
If you’re doubling or tripling the recipe, I wouldn’t automatically multiply the oil by the same amount. Add it gradually, toss the potatoes and see whether they need any more.
This recipe is naturally gluten free. Go here to read the food safety notice for Mrs. Hawkins House.com to make sure this is suitable for your gluten free needs.
Making Oven Chips for the Family
The recipe below uses 450g of potatoes, which makes one very generous portion or can be divided into two smaller portions depending on what you’re serving with them.
Simply increase the quantity of potatoes for a larger family and use additional baking trays when necessary.
Homemade chips are exactly the sort of ordinary food I come back to when we’re trying to keep our grocery spending sensible. Potatoes are inexpensive, filling and incredibly versatile.
You don’t need to make absolutely everything from scratch to save money on food. I prefer to concentrate on the things that are easy to make, taste good and genuinely make sense for our family.
And homemade oven chips definitely fall into that category.
Homemade Oven Chips Recipe
The full printable recipe is below, including temperatures, quantities and step-by-step instructions.
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C Fan/ 220° Non Fan/ Gas 7/ 390 Fahrenheit
- Peel and chop potatoes into chunky chips
- Rinse the potatoes and put into a bowl
- Add the oil and the paprika and combine well
- Place the chips on the tray giving them each a little space to cook properly. If they are all bunched up it wont work so well.
- Bake on a non stick tray for 20 minutes or until crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
- Enjoy with your favourite sauce as a snack or with your main meal as a side dish.
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