Ninja Speedi Home Fries - Easy Potato Side Dish Recipe (2025)

FAQs

Can you cook potatoes in a Ninja Speedi? ›

Deliciously smooth and buttery ,twice bake it. Cooked in the speedi on steam bake This jacket potato is definitely worth trying .

Just pat them completely dry before you prep them for the fryer. You can soak them in the fridge, in a bowl of water, all day while you are working. I wouldn't bother doing potatoes from the raw state, without soaking. It will take about a half an hour and the texture won't be nearly as rewarding.

Soaking your fries in cold water helps remove excess starch, which allows for crispy, golden fries! The cold water bath also helps the french fries retain their shape and contributes to a fluffy inside.

High starch potatoes like Idaho potatoes (also called Russet potatoes) are best for French fries. This variety is denser and they have the least amount of moisture in them. Avoid waxy potatoes, a category that includes any with red skin, new potatoes, and fingerling potatoes.

Can I use aluminum foil and parchment paper with the Speedi? Yes. It is safe to use parchment paper and aluminum foil in the cook pot. The use of aluminum foil is suggested in some recipes.

Soaking potatoes in water helps remove excess starch. Excess starch can inhibit the potatoes from cooking evenly as well as creating a gummy or sticky texture on the outside of your potatoes. Cold water is used because hot water would react with the starch activating it, making it harder to separate from the potatoes.

It's essential that you spread the potatoes in a single layer in the air fryer basket and that you leave a little space between each one. If they're too crowded, the potatoes will steam inside the air fryer, and they won't get crispy. In order to give them adequate space, you'll likely need to work in batches.

The top contains a heating element and fan, which blows hot air down and around the food on a rack below, cooking it quickly and making it crispy. Air fryers are healthy. Just 2 teaspoons of oil per large potato is all you need to make crispy fries (go ahead, have them for a snack!).

Long accepted as a standard deep frying oil because of its neutrality, high smoke point, and ready availability (on the bottom oil shelf of most grocery stores), peanut oil is the choice of home fryers as well as chains such as Five Guys Burgers and Fries.

Fill a large bowl with cold water and stir in 2 tablespoons of salt. Place the sliced potatoes in the salt water and let them soak for 15 to 30 minutes. This will help them bake up crispier. When the potatoes are done soaking, drain them, and dry very well with a towel.

Should you boil potatoes before frying them? ›

Do I need to boil my potatoes first? Trust us: You seriously don't need to boil these spuds (or pre-cook them at all) before pan-frying. Slicing them thin allows them to cook through in the same amount of time that they need to get brown and crispy on the outside.

If they are still not crispy you might have skipped a step or you might not have let them cool down sufficiently. Make sure to cool them in a single even layer and also make sure that the oil has the right temperature. Or maybe you've used the wrong potatoes to make them.

Who supplies Chick-fil-A's potatoes for Waffle Potato Fries? For nearly 40 years, Eagle, Idaho-based potato company Lamb Weston has provided Waffle Potato Fries™ and Hash Browns to Chick-fil-A^® restaurants.

Still, compared to the Foodi, the Speedi offers largely similar settings, with the only major difference being the absence of a pressure cooking setting.