Low Fat Crinkle Cut Chips

I use an actifry for these chips but you can also bake them in the oven. My kids love them. I wanted to do an easy, reasonably healthy dinner so we had these with roast chicken, peas and sweetcorn as my seven year old is fussy with veg.

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My boyfriend bought me this fancy peeler in thailand but it's they sell them on amazon, the crinkle cutter I bought from amazon also. Every friday my late grandma, Barbara (despite living opposite a really good fish and chip shop) made her own fish and chips. They were amazing! Much better than the fish shop. She went on the bus to Doncaster fish market to get the cod. What a treat! I always loved going there when she made them. The crinkle cut chips seemed so exotic! Save the peelings for my potato peel scratchings recipe.

I love real chips, apart from chip shops there aren't many people who get them right. Well my grandma did get them right, she soaked them all day in water with bicarb. Dried them off, then fried them. I was spoilt with the women in my family's cooking, I am very fussy about chips, they have to be right! However I daren't eat real chips often as they'll make me even more of a fat knacker, the actifry is a good substitute. I wouldn't dream of eating an oven chip or those ghastly frozen chips you get in most pubs. Like I said, being English, I take my chips very seriously.

I was trying to reduce my carbs when I made this after too many meals out last week. I looked at the peelings and they looked too pretty to throw in the bin. So I made potato scratchings with them. Here is the link to the recipe.

Peel potatoes with a normal peeler or a crinkle one, chop with a crinkle cutter as above photos. Cook with one tablespoon of oil in activity or same amount in an oven tray and mix the chips into it, coating them all in oil. Bake for 20-30 mins in a preheated oven on 200. Take out after first 10 mins and turn them so they cook evenly.

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