You caught me.
I am supposed to be studying for my pathology midterm tomorrow (8am – yikes), but I got tired of staring at my notes all day AND I am waiting for the husband to get home AND I just had to share this baked sweet potato fries recipe with you. I’m kind of obsessed with them. Last time I made them I ate the entire batch myself in under 5 minutes – no joke [sorry Fabi, I promise to make more this weekend]. The first time I had these was at a little restaurant called Dish in the beautiful Santa Barbara, CA where my lovely friend Erin used to work and I’ve been hooked ever since. I prefer them over french fries, and they are really healthy for you because they aren’t fried and they are loaded with vitamin A and C. All they need is a little olive oil and any spice you like. I season mine with garlic salt, paprika and cayenne pepper – SO GOOD.
What is everyone up to this weekend? I am trying to figure out what to do since my next midterm isn’t until Wednesday, so I want to take a little break… Hmmmm…
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OK…back to studying…
- 2 sweet potatoes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Paprika
- Garlic Salt or Powder
- Cayenne Pepper
- Preheat oven to 415 degrees F.
- Wash and peel the sweet potatoes, then slice them into fries (if you have a mandolin slicer, this will work perfectly!).
- Toss the fries into a large bowl and drizzle the olive oil over them.
- Coat the fries in olive oil by using your hands (sorry, it gets a little messy here!).
- Add as much of the seasonings as you would like, either in a large ziplock bag and shaking to coat or by alternating with mixing the fries with your hands in the bowl.
- Line the fries up next to each other on a baking sheet (this will give you the best results as they will all cook evenly!) and sprinkle with more seasonings if desired.
- Bake for 20-30 minutes, depending on how crispy you like them.
- Carefully turn over halfway if you want them extra crispy.
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These sound fantastic! I’ve never tried making sweet potato fries at home but I need to change that ASAP. Yours look wonderful. And good luck on your exam. =)
These look wonderful, I prefer sweet potato fries over regular potato fries too. Good luck on your exam!
I love sweet potato fries, they are one of my favorite side dishes!!
Kumara fries…unbeatable
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
haha! I totally forgot about Dish Cafe!! I did love their sweet potato fries, but these look even better!! And thanks for the link!
I miss you. And SB..
I bought sweet potatoes just so I could try my hand at these oven-baked fries. Can’t wait to try them!
I hope you like them as much as I do!! For me they are soo addicting I can’t stop eating them!
Your photography is beautiful! I love sweet potato fries. Can’t wait to try this recipe!
Thank you so much!
I love roasting sweet potatoes! I usually cut them into wedges, but they make great fries, too. And the cayenne pepper adds such a great spicy note to them. Really good stuff – thanks.
I haven’t tried wedges yet, that sounds really delicious!!
Oh my gosh I need to make these right now!
They look fantastic!
Kristianne, these look really good! I cannot for the life of me make the baked version of these fries work, based on many methods. I can bake for longer and it will never get crispy. Only burned & crispy. Is there something obvious so many people are doing that I am not?
In the process though, I just figured out how to make really crispy fried ones.
I agree, it is pretty tough to get sweet potato fries crispy by the baking method…I have heard that coating them in a little cornstarch helps. I have also heard that you can broil them for 1-2 minutes in the end, but I haven’t tried this because I am scared they will burn! I also think the SIZE you cut them makes a big difference-too small and they will burn too fast, and too big and they will never get crispy! I think this is one of those recipes that takes doing it a few times to figure out how you like it…but in the end, its worth it
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These look fabulous!! I would totally be eating these over studying as well!
that’s a no brainer! 
Thanks so much, Alice!
Mine always come out soggy. They are cooked thru and taste good, but soggy.
These guys are hard to get crispy…I think because sweet potatoes in general are hard to make crispy, but also because this recipe uses less oil/there is no frying so it is healthier.
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