Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Sweet Potato Fries

I am rather nutty about recreating my favorite foods from restaurants in my own kitchen. One of my favorite local places is a restaurant downtown called Tip Top. Not only are they bike friendly but they make a mean sweet potato fry. After trying out a few different recipes here is my favorite recreation of those delectable fries (straight from Martha). Oh, and these are unexpectedly healthy!


Sweet Potato Fries

1 large sweet potatoes (about a pound), skins on, scrubbed and cut into 4-inch sticks, each 1/2 inch thick
2 egg whites
spices of your choosing (I prefer salt, pepper, thyme, oregano, garlic powder & paprika)


Start by preheating your oven to 450 degrees.

While that is warming up start cutting your sweet potato. The skin has almost 3 times the antioxidants than the potato flesh itself so keep those babies on! Typically, sweet potatoes (aka yams) are more dense than it's more common relative so to speed up the cooking process, place them in a microwave safe dish and cover them, cooking them on high for 2 minutes in the microwave. Let them rest for 5 minutes.

While they are resting, beat the egg whites until they are frothy then add the spices. Working in batches toss the fries in the egg mixture, letting all of the excess fall back into the bowl. Place them in a single layer on a baking sheet and put them in the oven. Bake 10 minutes then flip with a spatula, returning them to the oven to bake for 15 more minutes or until golden brown.

7 comments:

Meg said...

WOW i have GOT to try this one this week! we eat yams all the time i love them and we eat yam fries regularly. never tried like this, i feel like it would get them nice and crispy as opposed to a lil mushy like mine always turn out. love your blog(s)!!

ps- your daughters homebirth video is inspiring and inspired me to have a waterbirth for our first due in april. :)
meg

Olive said...

these are SO delicious! a sigler family staple :)

Fat Bastardo said...

You are really onto something ie MAKE FOOD NOT WAR!

As a fat man aka Fat Bastard food makes me content. Make the Muslims fat and they won't feel like fighting.

Anonymous said...

this sounds delicious. i'm definitely going to try this out this weekend! thanks for the recipe

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Catherine Criswell Spear said...

My favorite splurge food! Yum!