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Friday Fun Thread for November 22, 2024

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I got myself an air fryer. Now that the share of low-fat oven-baked fries in my diet is going to rise, I need some kind of sauce to enjoy them with. What are your go-to homemade low-calorie dipping sauces?

Coat your fries in some kind of spice rub. They are much lower calorie but can be very flavorful

Thanks, that's an interesting idea. Any specific rubs you had in mind?

Take a leaf from the book of the barbarians on the southern border.

Fries with garlic salt + fresh chopped parsley don't really need anything else to dip in, IMHO. Add black pepper and/or ground chili pepper too to taste.

The parsley might not stick well to air-fried less-oily fries, though. That could take some experimentation. Maybe just a little vinegar first?

Some riff on Tzatziki is the best - semi-strained yoghurt, plenty of lemon juice, garlic and dill, salt to taste. You look for naturally lactofermented yoghurts, with nothing added, on the tangier side.

That's my go-to burger sauce! I haven't tried it on fries yet.

Low-calorie does limit your options. Not necessarily for dipping and in no particular order:

  • Malt Vinegar, possibly with some amount of "brown sauce." If it works for fish and chips, it probably works with just chips
  • Tomato Chutney or salsa, especially with larger home fries
  • Mustard, stone ground or whole grain. According to the totally unbiased National Mustard Museum, superior in every way to using ketchup. Particularly for the calorie conscious.
  • Nutritional yeast. I guess a topping not a sauce, but still another option to complement fries. IMO, needs salt too. Low calorie and low sodium sounds very miserable. Kind of a funky cheesy flavor with way fewer calories than cheese sauce.
  • Hot sauce. Frank's RedHot reminds me the most of using ketchup. Melinda's is available pretty broadly, and has a bunch of flavors of varying spiciness.
  • Gochujang. Depending on what you're having the fries with, but surprisingly versatile as a sauce for something so strongly associated with Korian food.
  • Crema. Can be lower calorie if made with yogurt or fat free sour cream, less tasty that way of course.

Personally, I don't worry too much about the calories from a table spoon of sauce. I typically go for Ketchup, BBQ, or 1:1 fry sauce (as apposed to 2:1 of Mayochup, as a concession that mayo does have appreciable calories, even at the table spoon level). If squeezed from a fine tip condiment food service bottle, you can "cover" a pretty large area with relatively little sauce.

I got myself an air fryer.

Welcome to the club. Which one?

Xiaomi something something, 6 liters, mechanical controls (Alec Watson convinced me I didn't need a fancier one).

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