Lazy sweet potato fries
Posted by parker about 1 year ago
I am always looking for minimal-work dishes, so this easy way of making tasty sweet potato "fries" appealed to me immediately.
No point in listing ingredients, because nothing needs measuring. You need at least one yam; two would work, depending on your hunger. Preheat the oven to something over 400° F.
Peeling is optional, but you should wash the yam if you're not peeling it. Slice off the north and south poles, then take off slabs cutting north to south, so you have a stack of yam-slices the full height of the spud. Slice across those to make your sticks.
Now, lightly grease a cookie sheet, and array the slices on the sheet. If you have a means of spraying, say, olive oil on the sticks (a Misto would do the trick), you can oil them as well. Then use a shaker to lightly salt the whole sheet. (You can season them other ways--seasoning salt leaps to mind, but anything you can invent out of your spice rack is fair game. Tell me if you come up with something nifty.)
Now put the sheet in the oven for eight or nine minutes. After that time, pull it out and use a spatula to flip the fries. (Don't do this one-by-one and don't worry too much if one or two wind up on the same side they started on.) You can re-season at this point as well, if you want. Another eight to ten minutes should have the fries in good shape!
Let 'em cool a bit before eating.
Parker made these for us the other night, and they were quite tasty. I believe he seasoned them with salt, pepper, and maybe some italian seasonings like oregano. They seemed pretty easty to make and the end product was quite rewarding.
Also, beware of slicing the sticks too thin. If you like the soft sweet-potato texture, big chunks are good, and thinner is crisper, but sliced too thin, they'll burn and set off the smoke alarm.