Chopped Cheese Loaded Fries
EBT-Friendly: 90% of ingredients
Made by Zach
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Assembly Time: 40 minutes
These Chopped Cheese Loaded Fries layer crispy air-fried potatoes with seasoned lean ground beef, melty cheese, caramelized onions, diced tomatoes, pickles, red onion, sesame seeds, and low-cal Big Mac sauce for a high-protein comfort meal.
Ingredients:
For the Loaded Fries
- 16 oz 96/4 lean ground beef
- 30 g yellow mustard
- 150 g white onion
- 50 g chicken bone broth
- 3 slices 2% American cheese
- 750 g russet potatoes
- 100 g roma tomatoes (diced)
- 100 g dill pickles (diced)
- 100 g red onion (diced)
- sesame seeds
- sea salt
- garlic powder
- 70 g low cal big mac
- sauce
For the Low Cal Big Mac Sauce
- 170 g plain non fat Greek yogurt
- 113 g 2% cottage cheese
- 65 g sugar free ketchup
- 25 g Dijon mustard
- 20 g pickle juice (from jar)
- 4 g nutritional yeast
Ingredients are subject to availability at local stores. Unavailable items will be automatically substituted at best-effort.
Directions
- Add all of the Low Cal Big Mac Sauce ingredients to a small blender and blend until smooth.
- Wash and dry the russet potatoes, then cut them into crinkle-cut fries.
- Air fry the fries at 400°F for 20–23 minutes, shaking every 8 minutes so they cook evenly.
- While the fries cook, add the diced white onion to a pan over medium-high heat. Cook until lightly browned, then add a pinch of sea salt and a splash of chicken bone broth to caramelize. Set aside.
- Form the lean ground beef into 3 equal balls. Add them to the same pan, smash flat, and season with sea salt, garlic powder, yellow mustard, and some of the onions.
- Cook for 3–4 minutes until a crust forms, then flip and cook for another 2–3 minutes.
- Add a slice of 2% American cheese to each patty, cover to melt, then chop everything together chopped-cheese style.
- Once the fries are done, toss them with avocado oil spray, sea salt, and garlic powder.
- Build each bowl with fries, chopped beef, low-cal Big Mac sauce, remaining onions, diced Roma tomatoes, diced red onion, diced dill pickles, and sesame seeds.
