Rally's French Fries (copycat)

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 lbs frozen plain french fries
• plain flour
• 1 cup boxed pancake mix
• 2 cups club soda
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
• 2 tablespoons seasoning salt

Recipe

• 1 prepare batter.
• 2 combine seasoning mixture and store in a tightly covered container.
• 3 allow 1 teaspoons seasoning for each cup of prepared batter.
• 4 potatoes- without thawing, open bag of fries and dust them lightly but evenly in flour, letting them dry on waxed paper lined cookie sheet for a few minutes.
• 5 coat the floured french fries evenly in the batter and fry in small portions at a time in 385 oil at least 2" deep in an electric fry pan.
• 6 turn fries once to brown evenly.
• 7 remove with tongs to drain on paper towel lined plate.
• 8 serve at once.
• 9 **the batter can be repeated as needed to coat the frozen fries.
• 10 **recipe is easily doubled or however much you want to make.
• 11 for fajita fries-add 1/2 ts ground cumin in each cup of prepared batter that includes the seasoning mix given above.