Loaded French fry recipes are easy, fun dishes for busy weeknights, game days, family parties, and more!
Loaded French fries elevate frozen French fries to a restaurant-worthy appetizer, side dish, snack, or meal with very little effort. While you can make fries from scratch, frozen fries work great.
There are so many fun possibilities for loaded French fry recipes. You can transform just about any popular comfort food dish into loaded fries for quick weeknight dinners, game day gatherings, family parties, and more.
Any sort of frozen French fries works well for loaded fries. Most recipes in this round-up call for straight cut, crinkle cut, or waffle fries, but don’t feel limited to these options.
Loaded French fry recipes
Nacho
The Girl on Bloor’s nacho-loaded fries are a homemade take on Taco Bell’s fries supreme. They have ground beef, pico de gallo, sour cream, and, of course, lots of nacho cheese.
Cheeseburger
The only thing better than your favorite fast food is combining a cheeseburger and fries right from the comfort of your own home. In Good Flavor’s cheeseburger-loaded fries have ground beef, cheese, special sauce, and lots of toppings, including lettuce, tomato, dill pickle, and red onion.
Bacon cheeseburger
Take any cheeseburger to a new level with bacon. Kinda Healthy Recipes’ bacon cheeseburger loaded fries have ground beef, cheese, bacon, and burger sauce.
Smashburger
The next time you cook smashburgers, double the recipe so you can make loaded French fries with the leftovers another night. How Sweet Eats’ smashburger loaded fries have broken up burger pieces, cheese, house sauce, pickles, and jalapeños. Her house sauce is absolutely the best.
Chili cheese
The Cookie Rookie’s chili cheese-loaded fries have homemade beef chili and are topped with cheese, sour cream, and green onions.
Bacon, cheddar, and Ranch
You can’t beat the bacon, cheddar, and Ranch flavor combination. It’s fabulous for Savory Experiments’ bacon, cheddar, and Ranch-loaded fries. Fresh green onion finishes the fries perfectly.
Chimichurri with chipotle bacon
How Sweet Eats’ chimichurri with chipotle bacon-loaded fries have melty cheddar sauce, herby chimichurri, and crispy chipotle bacon. There is so much texture and flavor here.
In-and-Out Animal
I don’t like posting a lot of copycat recipes. But you can’t search for loaded fries recipes online without running into the In-and-Out fries recipes. Domestic Superhero’s copycat In-and-Out animal-style loaded fries have sweet onions, melted cheese, and zesty sauce.
Greek
The Nutritionist Reviews’ Greek-loaded fries have feta cheese, tomato, green pepper, red onion, and banana peppers. They’re sprinkled with feta and drizzled with dill dressing.
Bacon poutine
I am Homesteader’s classic bacon poutine loaded-fries are savory and hearty comfort food at its best. The seasoned fries are topped with homemade gravy, mozzarella cheese, cheese curds, and bacon.
Sloppy Joe
Busy Day Dinners’ sloppy Joe loaded fries have a homemade zesty sloppy Joe sauce and are topped with cheese for the ultimate gooey fries dish.
Taco
For a fun twist for your next Taco Tuesday, turn your favorite tacos into loaded fries. Will Cook for Smiles’ taco-loaded fries have ground beef and cheese and are topped with avocado, green onion, tomatoes, and sour cream.
Carne asada
The Girl on Bloor’s carne asada-loaded fries take your favorite carne asada steak to a new level. The fries are topped with cheese, pico de gallo, guacamole, jalapeños, and sour cream.
Mexican street corn
Domestically Blissful’s Mexican street corn-loaded fries have lots of melted cheese in the fries and are topped with roasted corn, cilantro cream sauce, and fresh lime juice.
Mexican street corn-loaded fries are one of the recipes in a huge round-up of Mexican street corn recipes! Appetizers, dips, chicken, pastas, salads, tacos, enchiladas, and much more.
Pizza
Put your favorite pizza toppings on French fries with Ahead of Thyme’s pizza-loaded fries. She makes her fries with a rich marinara sauce and melted mozzarella and parmesan cheeses. Then she tops them with pepperoni, but the topping choices are endless.
Philly cheesesteak
Girl Carnivore’s Philly cheesesteak-loaded fries have steak, peppers, and onions all slathered in cheese. Waffle fries make it easy to scoop the toppings.
Barbecue pulled pork
The next time you have pulled pork, make a double batch so you can make Fat Girl Skinny’s barbecue pulled pork loaded fries. She tops them with cheese, green onion, red onion, and plenty of barbecue sauce. Pulled chicken works well here, too.
Buffalo chicken
Bubba Pie’s buffalo chicken loaded fries have breaded chicken tenders, buffalo sauce, Ranch dressing, and cheese. Then they’re topped with fresh blue cheese and green onion.
Banh mi
If you make banh mi sandwiches and other banh mi-inspired dishes at home, you’re familiar with the ingredients and making your own pickled carrots and daikon. As such, you’ll have everything that you need for I Am a Food Blog’s banh mi loaded fries. If not, it’s never too late to start. Banh mi is a wonderful recipe concept to experiment with in your own kitchen.
Vietnamese style
Little Spice Jar’s Vietnamese-style loaded fries are topped with three different sauces, peanuts, cilantro, sesame seeds, and lime. The flavor is unlike anything you’ve had before. She recommends filling out the fries with egg, tofu, chicken, or shrimp for a full lunch or dinner, which is a fantastic idea.
Pad Thai
Kirsten Oliphant’s Pad Thai loaded fries have Pad Thai pork topped with peanuts, cilantro, and lime. It’s a must-try recipe for anyone who loves Pad Thai noodles.
Cajun
Cali Masala’s Cajun-loaded fries are layered with spicy Cajun shrimp, sausage, caramelized onions, and bell pepper. Then they’re finished with homemade cheese sauce, Cajun spices, and green onions. There’s just the right amount of spice and so much flavor.
Cuban
House of Yumm’s Cuban-loaded fries have all of the flavors of a Cuban sandwich and are topped with a creamy Swiss cheese sauce.
Brisket
Make extra brisket so you’re able to have A Cowboy’s Life’s brisket-loaded fries the next day. They’re topped with shredded cheese, pico de gallo, jalapeños, cilantro, and chipotle sauce.
Reuben
Mother Thyme’s Reuben loaded fries have chopped corned beef and sauerkraut, are topped with melted Swiss cheese, and are finished with a drizzle of creamy Russian dressing.
Shepherd’s pie
Comfort food is even more fun when you put a twist on it like Cupcakes and Kale Chips’ shepherd’s pie-loaded fries. They have fries instead of mashed potatoes and are topped with lots of cheese.
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