Sweet potato fries don't really taste like regular fries at all, but they are delicious and easy to make. If you're trying to do a super low-carb diet for weight loss, eat only a tiny bit of these or not at all. Sweet potatoes are nutritionally superior to their white counterpart, but they are still relatively high in carbs.
As long as you get them at Aldi or WalMart, sweet potatoes are pretty cheap. They always seem to cost twice as much at Kroger. They're a great "filler" when you don't have enough meat and veggies alone. Or even if you do. They would be good with breakfast, lunch dinner, or as a snack. They taste good right out of the oven, or as cold leftovers. I used to eat them after doing P90x. Now I just eat them.
Here's what you need to make them:
-Sweet Potatoes (obviously)
-Garlic Salt
-Pepper
-Allspice
-Cinnamon
-Coconut oil
It also helps to have a super sharp peeler and knife. Sweet potatoes are kind of hard to slice.
Oh, and a cutting board. And an oven. Or a toaster oven, that'll work too.
I tried to find the original recipe, and I don't remember where I found it. I've changed it enough that it's totally mine now. The original recipe also called for Cayenne Pepper, but I ran out. They taste great with or without it.
Preheat your oven to 425 degrees F.
Steps without a photo: rinse and peel sweet potatoes. Cut them into fry size slices. Dump them in a mixing bowl.
I don't have exact measurements for anything. This bowl contains two sweet potatoes. I melted about a tablespoon of coconut oil and drizzled it over the potatoes. Then I just sprinkled a bunch of the spices and mixed them thoroughly. This is before mixing:
This is after mixing:
Dump the fries into a pan. I use a glass pan, but it really doesn't matter. just make sure you stir them around every 15 min or so, because they like to stick to the pan.
The original recipe said that they are done in 20 minutes. If you're in a pinch for time, 20 minutes produces nice, soft sweet potato fries. I like mine a little crispier, so I cook them longer. About 40 minutes will do the trick, but DO NOT cook them for an hour! I did that and burned some. I still ate some burned ones, but they were pretty gross.
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| There's butter hiding under there |
This is what I made to eat with the fries: green beans and fried pork chops. I use my cast iron skillets every day, often more than once a day. IMO, everything tastes better when cooked in a cast iron skillet (even sweet potato fries). I bought green beans already cut and washed at Walmart. It's more expensive that way, but way easier for meal prep. I used about half the bag in the skillet, put a lid on it, and cooked it for 30 minutes on medium heat. Lots of butter and garlic salt.
I got the pork chops on "about to expire special" at Walmart. They were just over $2 a pound. There are two more chops in the freezer for another meal.
A note about pan-frying pork chops: they're delicious! Way better than baking them in the oven! Another note: they don't take very long to cook AT ALL! I think they took maybe ten minutes total. I just fried them in butter and covered them in salt and pepper.
Our dinner plates:
There's unsweetened tea in our cups. The hubs and I each got a pork chop and the last chop went into his lunch. I sliced it up so he could put it in his salad if he wanted. That little butter dish is my daughters "plate", and she only ate one of those green beans. She ate most of the sweet potato fries though! We also each at an apple for dessert. Later, we also had coffee.
Simple, tasty, healthy, and relatively inexpensive. Yum.
