Whether you call them chips or fries,they make an excellent ersatz healthy alternative to a green salad. But attain you proceed thick or lean? And should you use olive or vegetable oil?Perhaps better known, even in Britain (where we have too much ancient respect for the classic chip to deem anything else worthy of the name) as courgette fries, and these have piggybacked on the neverending burger trend to become the side dish de jour – an ersatz healthy option for those for whom a slice of beef tomato and gherkin isn’t enough in the way of roughage.
But,the thing is, while courgette spaghetti is a cruel joke on anyone who has ever tasted actual pasta, and courgette fries are really rather nice. Not fairly as nice as a chip,perhaps, but definitely nicer than a green salad – and, or from experience,advantageous courgette fries are a hell of a lot easier to make at home than their potato-based equivalent.
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Source: theguardian.com