How Sweet it is to Snack on Sweet Potatoes

28 Dec

I am not a huge fan of sweet potatoes but a recent dinner idea of chicken burgers inspired me to try some homemade sweet potato fries. They are far healthier than regular potato fries and they are also super easy! Bake them in a super hot oven on a stoneware pizza pan or a regular cookie sheet lined with foil (shiny side up). These were super yummy with just a hint of spice.

Baked Sweet Potato Fries (serves 2)

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees

Ingredients:

  • 1 sweet potato cleaned (keep the skins on)
  • 2 Tbs. Olive oil (preferably light variety)
  • 1/2 Tsp garlic salt
  • 1/2 tsp. pepper
  • 1/4 tsp or more of ground red pepper spice (basically cayenne pepper) for spice!
  • (or you can just season them how you like. I hear salt and rosemary is pretty good as well)

There are 2 ways to slice these potatoes:

For Crispy chips: Slice thin into chips

For not as crispy fries: Cut the sweet potato in half then lengthwise then into strips that are about 1/4 in wide.

Toss your chips/fries in the oil and seasoning mix until well coated. Place on baking sheet or stoneware pan in an even layer and bake for 15 minutes. Turn gently and bake another 10-15 minutes or until done to desired doneness.

Sprinkle with a little salt if you so choose and enjoy!

The low down on the food facts:

Want to cut down on the calories- half the amount of oil and you will cut the calories down to 115 calories rather than 175.

Compare to small french fries from say McDonalds:

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  1. Even you can eat healthy and not starve! « Food Oasis - December 29, 2011

    […] Who said that eating healthy has to be boring and make you feel like you are starving all the time?!? Not this girl. I think that people get too tied up into dieting to loose weight they forget that number one you will gain back all the weight if you don’t stick with it FOREVER, and two diet without the t is just die. As in your diet will die if you only eat diet food. YUCK. Now if you want to learn to eat healthy (note not diet but healthy) you need to learn to make foods that taste good and that fill you up. Learn to make your junk food and comfort food favorites at home and healthier. For example instead of french fries make some homemade sweet potato fries. (recipe here) […]

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