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Vegan Greek Style Loaded Fries with garlicky tahini, olives, tomatoes, cucumber, and chickpeas.
This Greek Style Loaded Fries recipe is seriously amazing. Hot and spiced french fries are topped with all sorts of goodness to create the ultimate comfort food. It’s a highly shareable treat that’s great as main dish, snack or party food.
Loaded fries are always really popular. Why? Because they are amazing!!!
This version today is seriously good too! Delicious french fries are spiced with smoky and spicy paprika, garlic, onion, and oregano. Then it’s all topped with a tahini-yogurt, and a simple salad made of cucumber, chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, red onion, olives, parsley, and vegan feta cheese.
You’ll love this recipe so much!
With each bite you get something fun to eat. Some bites are extra saucy, others are crispy. Some bites are full of crunchy veggies, others are super cheesy.
These Greek Style Loaded Fries are:
- Vegan and gluten-free
- Simple to make
- Filling
- Loaded with veggie salad
- Kid-friendly
- Crowd-pleasing and highly shareable
- Perfect for parties or movie nights
- Warm and comforting
- Well spiced
- Customizable
- Seriously delicious
Sounds good? Then let’s make these babies!
· How to Make Greek Style Loaded Fries ·
Making Greek Style Loaded Fries is so easy!
You start with opening a bag of store-bought frozen fries. Then add your spices and mix everything well. I like using sweet and smoked paprika, garlic and onion powder, oregano, and chili flakes and powder, but you can totally go with whatever you like.
Now bake your fries according to package instructions. Usually it takes 10-15-20 minutes in a preheated oven.
While the fries are baking, you prepare the toppings and the sauce.
The sauce is a simple mixture of unsweetened plant-based yogurt, tahini, maple syrup or sweetener of your choice, lemon juice, and garlic. With a little water you can adjust the consistency to have a nice, thin sauce to drizzle.
The toppings are basically a chopped Greek salad. Cucumber, red onion, cherry tomatoes, olives, chickpeas, parsley, and vegan feta is mixed with a little olive oil and lemon juice.
Once everything is ready, you take the fries out of the oven and arrange them on a serving plate. Either on a large one so you can share it with friends or family as a snack, or on smaller, individual plates, if you wanna serve this as a main dish.
Drizzle the fries with tahini-yogurt sauce, and add that chopped style Greek salad on top.
That’s it. Now serve immediately, because Greek Style Loaded Fries is best served when it’s still hot and fresh!
Making it a little healthier
You can make this dish a little healthier if you use homemade fries instead of store-bought ones.
Simply cut your potatoes into fries or wedges (or use a crinkle cutter), and place them on a baking tray. Drizzle with a little olive oil, or lemon juice, if making oil-free. Then just bake until golden brown and crispy. It takes usually 30-50 minutes in a hot oven – depending on the type and size of your potatoes.
Also, you can avoid oil for the Greek style toppings as well.
How to serve Greek Style Loaded Fries
Greek Style Loaded Fries are best served fresh out of the oven. However I can tell you that you also won’t complain if you have some leftovers…because they are tasty cold (and slightly soggy) too!
When serving this dish as a snack or party food, it’s best to prepare it on one large serving plate. A casserole dish or a pretty baking tray can be especially cool looking!
Or you can prepare this dish on smaller, individual plates. Spread out the fries in a single layer on a dinner plate, or pile everything into a bowl, depending on what you prefer.
These Greek Style Loaded Fries can be served anytime, they are satisfying both in the summer and in the winter time.
★ So serve these as a:
- Delicious dinner anytime of the year
- Kid-friendly snack or main
- Party food – especially nice for garden parties
- Side for grilled goodies
- Appetizer before pizza dinner
- Shareable treat for movie nights or game nights
- Fun meal to eat with your S.O.
CUSTOMIZE IT THE WAY YOU LIKE IT!
This recipe has so many great options to be customized to your own taste!
Play around with the spicing of your fries! Add more paprika powder, different herbs, or try cumin, sumac, or any of your favorite spice mix.
I like to use crinkle cut fries to have extra lots of surface for the spices, but regular fries work just as well here too. Or you can go with wedges or steak potatoes.
If you don’t like the tahini yogurt sauce, you have so many other options that would work well here still. Try:
- Hummus – that’s made a little thinner with water
- Aioli
- Tzatziki
- Garlicky yogurt
- Sriracha mayo
- Cheesy sauce
- Pesto
- Guacamole or smashed avocado
For the toppings you can also skip whatever you don’t fancy. Or add extra veggies, fruits, legumes, or nuts. Sun-dried tomatoes, capers, corn, avocado, sun-flower seeds, pumpkin seeds, or beluga lentils are especially yummy additions.
Try roasted broccoli or cauliflower, lettuce, radishes, or grilled asparagus for extra nutrition boost.
If you like your loaded fries extra cheesy, simply sprinkle the fries with your favorite vegan cheese and place back in the oven for 2-3 minutes, so the cheese can melt. Then drizzle with the sauce and load with the veggies to serve.
More vegan comfort food ideas:
- Hungarian Potato Noodles
- Vegan Mushroom Stroganoff
- Simple Lentil Stew
- Hummus Potato Salad
- Sauerkraut Pasta with Smoked Tofu
- Baked Spaghetti Squash with Creamy Tomato Sauce
- Pita Pizzas
- Seedy Pretzel Bites with Pink Mustard Dip
Greek Style Loaded Fries
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
For the FRIES
- 1.5 lbs/700 g frozen crinkle cut fries
- 1 tsp sweet paprika powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 3/4 tsp onion powder
- 3/4 tsp oregano
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/8 tsp chili powder
- salt, pepper
For the SAUCE
- 2.5 tbsp tahini
- 2 tbsp unsweetened vegan yogurt
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 3/4 tsp maple syrup
- salt, pepper
For the GREEK STYLE TOPPINGS
- 1/2 red onion, chopped
- 1 Persian cucumber (or 1/4 English cucumber), chopped
- 15 black olives, sliced
- 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/3 can of chickpeas, drained
- 1/2 cup of crumbled vegan feta (homemade or store-bought)
- 2 tbsp fresh chopped parsley
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- salt, pepper
Instructions
FRIES
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F (or to whatever temperature is suggested on the package of your fries).
- Place fries on a baking sheet.
- Mix together spices, then sprinkle over fries. Toss around to cover fries everywhere with spices.
- Bake for about 15 minutes, or according to package instructions.
SAUCE
- For the sauce whisk together tahini, yogurt, lemon juice, garlic, maple syrup, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Add a little water to achieve a drizzleable consistency.
GREEK STYLE TOPPINGS
- Add to a bowl onion, cucumber, olives, cherry tomatoes, chickpeas, feta, and parsley. Drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice, and season with oregano, salt and pepper. Mix to combine.
ASSEMBLY
- Arrange fries on a serving plate. Drizzle with tahini sauce, and load with Greek style topping. Serve immediately. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
angiesrecipes says
So colourful and tempting!
green evi says
I love the colors here too 🙂
Anca says
This looks amazing. I’ve been making loaded fries often in the last few months. With oven-baked potatoes and healthy sauces, it feels decadent, but in fact it can relatively healthy overall. I’ve been making cheese sauce with a bit of cheese, milk, and nutritional yeast and it is great. I will replace that with feta next time, because I love this idea.
green evi says
Thanks, Anca! Oven-baked potatoes and a cheese sauce with lots of nutritional yeast sound so so so good!!!