Wani's recipe for awesome deep-fried chips

I can be a rather lazy cook sometimes, I'll admit that. Half the time, my dinners are sausages and chips (And somehow, I stay in shape o_O). But frozen chips are kinda expensive, so I thought to myself "Hey! Why not buy potatoes and make them yourself?" So I did! I cut up potatoes, then found out that that didn't give quite the same texture and flavour as the frozen ones, or the ones you get from fish and chip shops (inb4fushandchupbecauseI'makiwi). So! After some experimenting because most chip recipes are for oven baked or pan fried (wth?), I came across the quite simple secret: Boiling.



Ingredients

• Potatoes (Obviously)
• Any other veges you might wanna deep fry.
• Herbs and stuff. I'm fond of rosemary, garlic (There's a nice brand of garlic and herb salt from Masterfoods that I like), chicken flavoured salt and iodised table salt (Because New Zealand soil is crap)
• Water.
• Oil.

Method

Cut up your potatoes (and other veges if you choose, such as carrots, or kumara/sweet potato) into something resembling a chip shape and chuck them in a pot with water, herbs and all that. Bring it to the boil and boil it for 5-10 minutes or so. You don't want to boil it for too long, or else when you deep fry them, they just soak up all the oil.
Once they're cooked, drain them, leave them to cool, freeze them if you want (I like boiling up a nice big batch of them during the day, then freezing them and cooking them as I require). Then, when it comes to cook them, just deep fry them as you normally would (At about 190°C/374°F/463.15K or so for about 5 minutes). Let them cool for a little, then enjoy!

Don't forget the enjoy step. So help you, if you forget to enjoy them...