Cheesy fries and salsa

Our cheesy fries are super quick, super tasty and oh so easy to make. The perfect flavourful movie night snack!

Is there anything better than cheesy carbs? They're the perfect snack combo. I like to serve my cheesy fries with a pot of homemade roasted tomato salsa for dipping the fries into... just for a little added yumminess!

Cheesy fries and salsa are a delicious Saturday night movie snack and the kids just love these. And I kinda love them to, they are so very right!

We cut corners with our delicious cheesy fries, becauase we want this snack fixed up fast.

So we use frozen oven chips, I always have a bag of these in the freezer on standby and they work really well for cheesy fries!

Cheesy Fries Ingredients

• 900g bag oven chips - I use McCain Crispy French Fries
• 1 red onion - finely sliced
• 1 red chilli - finely chopped
• 2 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 100g Cheddar cheese - grated

How to make cheesy fries

• Simply heat the oven to the temperature on the pack.

• Spread the oven chips on a tray in a single layer and scatter over slices of red onion, 1-2tsp smoked paprika, sliced chillies if you like things hot and cook in the oven for the recommended time on the packet (usually around 18 minutes)

• Once they're cooked remove the tray from the oven and scatter over as much or as little grated cheese as you like. A good strong Cheddar cheese works well.

• Put the chips back into the oven for 1-2 minutes until the cheese is all melty.

Roast Tomato Salsa

I always serve these with proper roast tomato Mexican Salsa.

I make this tomato salsa fresh a couple of times a week. One because its just so easy and cheap and two because that veggie packed salsa all counts towards your 5-a-day.

When feeding kids, packing in the veggies is always something I think about.

It's great for dipping veggie sticks into, tortilla crisps, bread sticks and quesadilla as well as cheesy chips!

To make up a batch of salsa you'll need

• 3 large vine tomatoes
• 1 red pepper
• 1 green chilli (more if you like things hot)
• handful of fresh coriander
• juice of a lime
• pinch of sea salt

The vegetables are roasted in the oven, no oil, just allow them to soften and start to char for around 20 - 30 minutes. Then pulse them in the blender with the juice of lime and a handful of fresh coriander.

You can get the Mexican Roast Tomato Salsa Recipe here

Make cheesy fries and salsa your way...

They're your cheesy fries, make them your way

• don't fancy fries - use oven bake wedges

• fancy some meat - add discs of pepperoni or shredded ham with the cheese.

• throw on a tin of sweetcorn or some sliced mushrooms

• go blue - add crumbled blue cheese in with your cheddar

• dip them in sour cream or guacamole instead of salsa

• go Indian and switch the smoked paprika for ground cumin and dip them in mango chutney.

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