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Heston Blumenthal’s Triple-Cooked Chips Recipe
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Heston Blumenthal is an English celebrity chef and owner of The Fat Duck, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, which has been voted Best Restaurant in the UK and received a perfect score of 10/10 every year since 2007 by The Good Food Guide. He has also written many cook books as well as doing televised cooking programs.
This recipe and video come from the show Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection in which he takes normal, everyday food and elevates it to high cuisine.
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The first part of the book maps the new techniques in fifteen sections, including: taste and flavor; stocks and infusing; brining, curing, marinating, and macerating; and sections on proper care of meat, fish, pasta, and many other dishes. In the second part, there are 150 specially chosen recipes. Here, at last, is the secret to irrefutably perfect fish and chips, as well as a few more unconventional dishes such as salmon with licorice, and crab lasagna.
Heston at Home is an ingeniously designed book for cooks who want to know how food works, and who are excited about adopting an unconventional approach that will revolutionize the experience of cooking at home.
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Heston Blumenthal’s Triple-Cooked Chips Recipe
Recipe and Technique courtesy of Heston Blumenthal
Ingredients
- 1 kg (about 2.2 pounds) Maris Piper potatoes, peeled and cut into chips (approx. 2 × 2 × 6 cm or 3/4 x 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches)
- Groundnut or Grape Seed oil
- Salt
Directions
- Put the cut chips into a bowl under running water for 5 minutes to wash the starch off.
- Place 2 litres (1/2 gallon) of cold tap water in a large saucepan and add the potatoes. Place the pan over a medium heat and simmer until the chips are almost falling apart (approximately 20–30 minutes, depending on the potato).
- Carefully remove the cooked chips and place them on a cooling rack to dry out. Then place the rack in the freezer for at least 1 hour to remove more moisture.
- Heat a deep-fat fryer or a deep pan no more than half filled with oil (to a depth of around 10 cm or 4 inches) to 130ºC or 260ºF. Fry the chips in small batches until a light crust forms (approximately 5 minutes), remove from the oil and drain on kitchen paper.
- Put the potatoes on a cooling rack and place in the freezer for at least 1 hour. (At this stage, if you don’t want to cook and serve immediately, the chips can be kept in the fridge for 3 days.)
- Heat the oil in the deep-fat fryer or deep pan to 180ºC or 350ºF and fry the chips until golden (approximately 7 minutes). Drain and sprinkle with salt.
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Photo of Heston Blumenthal’s Triple-Cooked Chips is by Laissez Fare and is used by permission under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) License. Additional information about Heston Blumenthal courtesy of Wikipedia. Photo of Heston Blumenthal by Brian Minkoff- London Pixels and is used by permission under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Recipe courtesy of Heston Blumenthal and the BBC Channel 4 Website – http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-cook-like-heston/articles/all/triple-cooked-chips-recipe (Page no longer up).
April 4, 2014 @ 9:57 pm
So where is the recipe??????
April 5, 2014 @ 1:21 pm
Walt,
Ahhhh…the joys of YouTube.
What Walt and many of you may have seen is that, between the time we uploaded the page and the time the email went out, the video — with the recipe — was deleted.
It wasn’t our video or our account.
We have found a new video for you. This one is of the entire In Search of Perfection show that Heston did about potatoes. It is a full show, so it is long. But it is a pleasure to watch and it is where we first tried the Triple-Cooked Chips recipe ourselves.
We have also located the recipe and included it for you.
Thanks Walt.
James