French fries are a popular side dish consisting of sliced strips of potato, fried in cooking oil and served warm. While french fries can be garnished according to customer preference, the basic ingredients of the dish remain potatoes and cooking oil. Applebee's restaurants serve a basic french fry dish with salt and provide mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup and barbecue sauce as condiments.
Potatoes
Applebee's restaurants use frozen, sliced potatoes to create french fries. These potatoes are fried in oil and cooked to order. Applebee's french fries can be modified to an order of chili cheese fries, which includes beef and bean chili, along with cheddar cheese. Chili cheese fries cost more than plain fries.
Oil
French fries are cooked in oil. The type of oil is variable, but determines greatly the taste and amount of fat in the fries. Applebee's cooks its french fries in oil that adds 4 g of saturated fat and 18 g total fat to the french fries.
Salt
Salt is often added to french fries in order to season them. While some restaurants serve fries unseasoned allowing the customer to salt their own fries, Applebee's serves fries with approximately 720 mg of salt, unless otherwise requested in your order.
Nutrition
Applebee's french fries contain 390 calories per serving. They also hold 18 g of fat, 4 g of which are saturated fats. There are 53 g of carbohydrates within a serving of Applebee's french fries, 4 g of dietary fiber and 5 g of protein.
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