Cheeseburger Fry Recipe
Need an easy weeknight takeout-esque meal for when you want to eat out but you don’t want to eat out? Cheeseburger fries are just the thing for those times! They are easy to put together, feel like an indulgent meal but are so much more wholesome than fast food.
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 40
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 4-6 servings 1x
- Category: easy dinners
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
fries
- 2 lbs yukon gold potatoes, washed + scrubbed & cut into 1/2 inch sticks
- olive oil or avocado oil
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- salt and pepper
suggested toppings
- cheddar cheese
- tomatoes
- pickles
- pickled onions
burger sauce
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tbsp mustard
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 2 tbsp diced pickle
- 1 tbsp pickle juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Place sliced potatoes on two baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Drizzle with oil to coat evenly and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Arrange in an even layer, keeping the potatoes spaced apart to avoid steaming. Bake for about 40 minutes, until golden. You may want to rotate the racks and/or give the fries a flip halfway through baking for more golden edges but its not 100% necessary.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat with a drizzle of oil. Add the ground beef and break up with a wooden spoon or spatula. Add 1 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp black pepper, 1 tsp onion powder, 1/2 tsp garlic powder and cook until no longer pink. Remove from heat and set aside until ready to assemble the fries.
- While the fries finish cooking, prepare toppings: chop tomato, make the burger sauce, etc.
- Serve oven fries topped with ground beef, cheese and other desired toppings.
- Please see the notes section for information about melting the cheese and serving options.
Notes
I wanted to give more of an explanation here regarding getting your cheese melted just right. The thing is, if you cook the beef while baking the fries, it will cool down and probably won’t be hot enough to melt the cheese (a problem for me, and maybe you too?) so here’s what I did. I had little individual cardboard fast-foody containers I got from smart and final that I could pop back in the oven for a minute on a baking sheet to melt the cheese.
If you don’t have oven-safe individual dishes, you can always microwave or you can add the beef and cheese to the fries on the baking sheet and pop the whole baking sheet back in the oven to melt the cheese and warm up the beef a bit. It only takes a couple minutes.