{"id":204969,"date":"2025-04-25T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/baking-category-a-b\/air-fried-dirty-fries-in-15-mins-phils-home-kitchen\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:20:45","slug":"air-fried-dirty-fries-in-15-mins-phils-home-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=204969","title":{"rendered":"Air-fried \u201cdirty fries\u201d in 15 mins \u2013 Phil’s Home Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Proper delicious fast food, taking about 10 minutes for cooking the fries and then a further 5 minutes of cooking to finish off.<\/p>\n

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This dish is very much a guilty pleasure, but it is so<\/strong><\/em> delicious. Dirty, perhaps even downright filthy, but delicious.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never had dirty fries, then I welcome you to one of the ultimates in comfort food: potato fries smothered in a smoky, sticky, cheesy and spicy sauce.<\/p>\n

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The contrast between crispy bits of the fries and the soft bits, all bound together in the punchy sauce, is wonderful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It might seem bizarre, but it just works!<\/p>\n

You can use a ready-made spice blend and bottled bbq sauce: simply toss together with the cheese and the cooked fries\/potato wedges and finish in the oven\/ air-fryer. If it\u2019s a good bbq sauce it will still taste superb.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t have an air-fryer, this can be made in the oven at 190-200\u00b0C: it just takes about 15-20 minutes longer to cook in total, with the pre-heating of the oven and the like.<\/p>\n

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If using the air-fryer, why not embrace the sheer dirtiness of it all and serve up in the foil it cooked on!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love eating these straight out of the foil! Alternatively, you can decant the mixture into a heat-proof dish for the final cooking.<\/p>\n

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If you have other veg that needs using up, add those to the air-fryer too: carrots and cauliflower are terrific. You can also throw in some cooked meat: left-over roast chicken is wonderful.<\/p>\n

Fries, wedges or your own choice!<\/h3>\n

I often use frozen oven fries here: they take about 10 minutes from the freezer and are ideal when I crave a speedy bite such as this. I make up the sauce while the potatoes cook, so the dish then takes about 5 more minutes to finish off.<\/p>\n

However, unpeeled potatoes (including salad potatoes) chopped into wedges or even halved if they are fairly small are also great here. This is also lovely made using left-over roast potatoes.<\/p>\n

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Either way, just cook the potatoes until they are to your liking.<\/p>\n

Home-made spice blend<\/h3>\n

Instead of making the spice blend, you could instead use a bought cajun spice blend \u2013 or spice blend of your choice.<\/p>\n

The spice blend itself is so easy to make: the recipe for it (below) makes more than you need, but the remainder can be kept in a small jar and popped into your spice cupboard to be used when needed. It\u2019s also great as a rub for meats prior to cooking.<\/p>\n

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Cheese and jam!<\/h3>\n

I prefer using a smoked cheese: smoked Red Leicester is sublime, as is smoked Cheddar. However, if you can\u2019t get a smoked cheese use a mature hard cheese for flavour. I tend to mix all the cheese in at once, but you can sprinkle some on top before the final cooking if you want a crispy cheese topping.<\/p>\n

I use either bacon jam, chilli jam or bbq sauce as part of the \u201cdirty\u201d sauce, which adds a real punch of flavour and helps with the essential gooeyness of the finished dish! I\u2019ve linked my recipes for these below, although there are excellent commercial varieties of these.<\/p>\n

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Spice blend (or use a bought Cajun blend):<\/span><\/p>\n