Potato Cheese Fingers Recipe

Potato cheese sticks are a trending potato snack similar to french fries, but made with cheesy mashed potatoes. With only 3 simple ingredients – potatoes, cheese, and cornstarch, you can make these addicting sticks that are sure to satisfy your french fry, mashed potato, and cheese cravings.

Compared to a french fry, these potato cheese sticks stay crispier for longer, has a super fluffy yet slight chewy interior, and a strong cheddar flavour that’ll wake you right up!

Yes, you could – even thought it defeats the purpose of the name “Potato Cheese Sticks”. If you are vegan, I suggest substituting the cheddar cheese with vegan cheese.

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When you first take a bite, you get hit with that crispy crunchy potato skin and a nice fluffy mashed potato interior. Then you chew a little, and you get a strong cheddar flavour, but it doesn’t overpower the earthiness and the hint of sweetness coming from the yellow potato.

The inside isn’t fully potato, the skin of the potato cheese stick actually puffs up quite a bit from the cornstarch we mixed in, leaving us with a small gap, where the skin meets the potato interior. This makes for a crispy, yet pillowy and soft texture – unlike any french fry you’ve ever had. 

I recommend using an extra sharp or sharp cheddar cheese to really taste that cheese flavour. White or orange will do, but match the colour palette of the potato, I recommend white cheddar.

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I don’t suggest it. Though I love my mozzarella cheese, it won’t work well in this dish because it has a very mild flavour and defeats the purpose of adding cheese to this dish (we are looking for a strong cheese flavour).

I typically use mozzarella to get a nice and aesthetic cheese pull, however we are not aiming for that here. We are mixing the cheese in with the potato and starch, so the latter will prevent the mozzarella from becoming stringy, leaving you with mediocre potato sticks with barely any cheese flavour.

Remove the epidermis of the potato using a sharp metal blade and karate chop them into cute little chunks. I typically cut each half into 8 pieces – this’ll make them boil much faster.

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Toss em in boiling water – salted of course (1 tsp of salt), for 15-20 mins until it’s tender enough that a chopstick can slide through with no effort.

You can also use a fork or potato masher but you’ll just need to be very determined about mashing all the little bits out.

This sorta reminds me of those toys where you would put your hand on dull needles and the other side would show an imprint of your hand. Anyone know what those are called?

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Divide the dough in half, and place the dough into two sandwich bags. With the bag kept open, evenly flatten the dough with a rolling pin until it fills the entire bag – don’t forget to fill in the corners.

We keep the bag open to ensure all the air bubbles can escape. Once the bag is filled, zip the bag up, making sure all the air bubbles are gone, and place both bags into the freezer to firm up for 20 minutes. This’ll ensure that there’s less of a chance of it falling apart once we slice into it.

After the dough has been chilling for 20 mins, carefully cut the seams of the bag open with a knife so it’s easier to slice into strips.Be very careful not to accidentally cut the dough when you’re cutting the bag open!

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Depending on how thick or thin you want your fries to be, you can cut according to your taste. I’ll be cutting it around the thickness of my left pinky, making 12 strips. To do so, simply slice the flattened dough in half to make two pieces, then divide the halves into half again to make four pieces, then into thirds to make 12 strips. In total, these two bags make 24 potato cheese sticks.

Though we have previously froze the dough before slicing, we need to freeze the slices again. This will ensure that the dough doesn’t break apart once it hits the hot oil. Pop the slices back into the freezer for another 20 mins.

To a pot or pan large enough to fit the sticks, heat up some neutral oil to 350°F (180°C) or medium-high heat.

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Once the temperature is reached, the potato sticks are begging for a jacuzzi so plop em in! We wanna fry them for 3-4 minutes or until crisp and golden brown.

Try to not let them fry too close to each other or else they will stick together. To prevent that from occurring, make sure to fry them in batches to prevent overcrowding. Once your sticks are golden brown, transfer them to a wire rack to cool.