Daily Archives: April 29, 2019

SWEET POTATO FRIES

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Sweet potato addiction is a thing. The first time that I made sweet potato fries, was last year on my birthday for brunch and I never looked back. If you had told me I’d be loving sweet potatoes in the future, I would have laughed in your face.

This is because growing up, I knew only one way of eating sweet potatoes which is boiling them until soft and enjoying them with a cup of good old tea. My mother to date still makes it like that for breakfast like any other Kenyan household probably does.

I was glad to stumble upon articles and cooking shows that showed me that there were other ways of eating sweet potatoes example being my rosemary and cumin sweet potato mash I fried my sweet potato fries for the first time, but here I’m going to show you how to bake your sweet potato fries. Let’s get cooking :

INGREDIENTS :

  • 3 large sweet potatoes
  • Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Paprika
  • 1 teaspoon Garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Corn flour
  • Vegetable oil

PROCEDURE:

Preheat your oven to 425°F. Meanwhile, peel and wash your sweet potatoes. Next cut them into thinly sliced fries. Sweet potatoes tend to oxidize faster than regular Irish potatoes. This should be no cause for alarm. Chop them and add in a bowl with cold water which will help with the oxidizing as you continue to chop the rest.

Next drain the water and pat dry your sweet potatoes to get rid of the excess water. This helps in ensuring we get crispy sweet potatoes at the end.

This next process is a guarantee of crisping up our sweet potatoes. Take your chopped up sweet potatoes and coat them in corn flour. Afterwards, add your oil in the bowl with the rest of our spices and coat evenly.

Cover your baking tray with aluminum foil/ parchment paper or baking sheet. This will prevent the sweet potatoes from sticking on the tray when cooking (This step is totally optional if you coat your baking tray with a good amount of oil). Coat your aluminum coated tray with oil and align your sweet potato fries on it, being careful not to overcrowd them since overcrowding will encourage steaming and less crisping up.

Cook your sweet potato fries in the oven for minutes at 425°F for 30 minutes, flipping them over after 20 minutes to cook them evenly.

Enjoy immediately with ketchup or favourite dipping sauce.

Love, C&C