I am making fresh french fries in my skillet (meaning i cut up raw potatoes and want to cook them.. :] ) The recipe calls for 4 cups of vegtable oil... but i only have one cup... do you have any substitutes that i can use to cook it in other than vegt. oil?!?!? THANk you soooooooooo much! <3

peanut oil

Any kind of oil (food grade) will work. Corn oil, olive oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil etc. But likely if you don't have any more veg oil you probably don't have the others either. The solution is to use the one cup you have but either use a smaller pan and fry two or more separate batchs or else don't immerse the fries total (because you don't have enough oil in a large pan) and just keep stirring them around and flipping them I do it all the time to save on oil. PhD Food Chemistry and Nutrition

This is how I make french fries - really oven fries - much healthier. Coat a cookie sheet with oil - only a drizzle - cut up the potato in french fry pieces. place the raw potatoes in a bowl, sprinkle with garlic powder, salt drizzle with a bit of oil - toss - then layer the potatoes on the cookie sheet. Cook at 400 degrees until browned about 20 minutes - depending on the thickness of your fries. yum

use the veg. oil then add butter or margrine ,but you will have to watch it closely so as not to burn

Another possibility is to coat them in the oil and bake them at 425 for about 30 min. Be sure to grease your baking sheet so they don't stick. These are a little different than deep fried potatoes, but very tasty and less fat. You can also sprinkle seasoning on them before you bake them.

or canola oil if you have that. if you don't the oven baking is best to do. Good luck and GOD Bless you