Wendy's Seasoned Potatoes Recipe: How To Make Them At Home (2024)

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What are Wendy's seasoned potatoes seasoned with? ›

Natural-cut, skin-on potatoes cooked to perfection and seasoned with cracked black pepper and garlic powder.

Yep, these seasoned potatoes are gluten-free. Wendy's uses a blend of food starches plus rice flour for the breading on their version, but my tests confirmed that cornstarch is all you'll need for a great clone of Wendy's seasoned potatoes.

Seasoned Potatoes: Hot, crispy, and perfectly seasoned, these are the perfect complement to one of our delicious breakfast sandwiches, like the Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit. Honey Butter Biscuit: Fluffy buttermilk biscuit spread with maple honey butter.

Wendy's Breakfast Seasoned Home-style Potatoes (1 serving) contains 26g total carbs, 24g net carbs, 4g fat, 2g protein, and 150 calories.

Wendy's baked potatoes are wrapped in foil and baked in a convection oven for one hour. These logistics present challenges that other chains, besides the occasional Arby's, have opted out of. Wendy's is the only fast food restaurant to offer a baked potato nationwide.

Among the potato suppliers of our Hot and Crispy Fries, Cavendish Farms received our Good Done Right Award for the company's exemplary environmental sustainability practices.

But what makes their french fries special? Wendy's fry naturally-cut fries skin on and serve it with a dash of sea salt. Their classic take on this savory comfort food makes something simple yet undeniably addicting, which is why we're making this copycat recipe just for you!

French Fries: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Contains One Or More Of The Following Oils: Canola, Soybean, Cottonseed, Sunflower, Corn), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (To Maintain Natural Color).

Start your day off with fruit—Wendy's apple bites, strawberries, and orange juice are all vegan-friendly breakfast options. The Seasoned Potatoes are also vegan, although they too are cooked in oil shared with menu items, including fish.

They started as "health food"

"In the mid-to-late '80s, almost everyone in the industry was playing around with healthy options in their menus, so Wendy's was actually probably a little ahead of the game with the potato," Estrada adds. The "basic" baked potato at Wendy's, free of toppings, is 270 calories.

What is the Wendy's Breakfast Burrito 2024? ›

The new Breakfast Burrito, now available in select regions, is loaded with all of the best parts of Wendy's breakfast menu. It includes two fresh cracked eggs and six strips of oven baked, applewood smoked bacon – the same amount of bacon found on the iconic Baconator^®!

Potatoes (82%), Coating (9%) [Modified potato starch (E1412), Rice flour, Maize starch, Salt, Modified tapioca starch, Spices (Black pepper), Sugar, Garlic powder, Onion powder, Dextrose, Thickener (E415), Colouring (E160b(ii)), Raising agents (E450, E500)], sunflower oil (9%).

The 830-calories combo consists of a croissant sandwich and seasoned potatoes, which is the "most-mentioned breakfast item across all of Wendy's social media channels," according to their official press release.

Wendy's Classic Bacon Egg & Cheese Sandwich (1 serving) contains 25g total carbs, 24g net carbs, 17g fat, 18g protein, and 320 calories.

According to The Takeout, the new fries feature a batter coating to keep them crispier longer. And that batter is exactly what some Wendy's diners don't like about the new fries: They say they taste like Burger King fries, which also feature this type of coating (via EveryThingWhat).

So here's the deal: Wendy's recently switched up how these fries are cut, with one side built for heat retention and the other for crispiness. The chain even introduced a new battering system, with new fry baskets that Wendy's claims help maintain crispiness.