French Fries: Our favourite ingredients to cook at home

French fries are strips of potato cooked until crisp outside and fluffy inside. British chips are usually cut thicker than American-style fries, and steak-cut chips are extra thick, with a soft, floury centre.

Chips are the other half of Britain's favourite takeaway, eaten with salt and malt vinegar or tucked into buttered bread as a chip butty. In our Easy home Fish & Chips recipe, frozen steak-cut chips are baked on a tray at 220°C for 25 to 30 minutes, turned halfway, while the fish fries. Prime Food's frozen French fries Steak Cut come in a 500g pack, the amount the recipe uses.