As you’ll probably soon learn, I have an obsession with orange vegetables. You’re lucky this website didn’t start during pumpkin season because I went absolutely pumpkin crazy. Pretty much everything I made and ate involved pumpkin of some sort. But since the holidays are over, I have to resort to other various orange vegetables. Last week was the squash soup, tonight was sweet potato fries.
I recently got a mandoline and was very excited to put it to use for my fries. Of course, if you don’t have a mandoline, you can simply cut your vegetables the old-fashioned way (also known as with a knife), but mandolines are fun to use and make everything easier. They are very sharp and dangerous though, so be careful! I have the OXO Good Grips Mandoline,
like this one:
I took 2 sweet potatoes and using the “french fry” blade on my mandoline, sliced the potatoes into thin little french fries. Then I put them in a bowl and mixed them with a little bit of extra virgin olive oil, salt, and pepper and placed them on two trays:
And pretty! Mmmm. Along with orange vegetables, I also have a thing for ketchup. So basically, this is my dream team right here:
Doesn’t get much easier than that! Since these french fries are really technically “french bakes,” they’re actually pretty healthy for you. And personally, I think they taste just as good as they would if they were fried! Now that you know how to make sweet potato fries, you also know how to make regular fries. And really, who doesn’t like fries?
[Sues]
Yummm these are one of my favorite foods ever. There is a restaurant in my town that serves them in a salad… like mixed in… very strange I think.
That does NOT look like Heinz
ketchup.
Though the sweet potato bakes do like kinda yummy.
I love orange vegetables too! Its not the same as making them yourself, but in the frozen section of the grocery store, “Alexia” sweet potato fries are excellent too!!! You just pop them in the oven/toaster oven for 20 mins.
Oh man- I LOVE orange veggies! No glasses for us! Sweet potatoes, pumpkin, squash, carrots…the whole orange lovefest. These look great!
Yum! I love sweet potatoes, but they always seem to take forever to cook. This is a great alternative!!!
Greatest recipe ever.
Love me some sweet potatas. (That’s how we say it in Indiana.)
I need me that mandoline! Then I wouldn’t have to rely on Trader Joe’s precut sweet potato spears!
I am envious of your mandoline…guess it’ll have to go on my Christmas list for next year!
I’ve never had Sweet Potato fries but those look SO yummy.
GAH- I love sweet potatoes. LOVE THEM.
Stop making me drool on myself, like, always.
Sweet potatoes…YUM!! My mouth is watering right now. Seriously.
maxie- Oooh that sounds different, but GOOD!
peter- It’s not…it’s hunts. duh.
karen- Definitely something to keep in mind when running low on time..thanks!
tktc- Why do I have such horrible eyesight then??? Oh well, I’ll eat them anyway!
dolce- These cook sooo quickly!
renee- Hehe, sweet potatas. MUCH better than podada.
lsass- Those Trader Joe’s sweet potatoes are actually amazinggg. But using a mandoline is fun
Heidi- I highly recommend the one I have. I went home for dinner and my mom made me bring it because she likes it better than hers!
marriage-101- You should def try them! You’ll like them…I promise.
nicole- Hehe sorry
Virginia- I know! I was so excited to make them.
! I make sweet potato fries by hand all the time and I hate it! Why did I not know about this sooner? I’m definitely getting one tonight!