Baked Curry Sweet Potato Fries
These were my Sunday morning breakfast….
because I’m weird.
because I was hungry.
because I couldn’t really wrap my brain around walking to the grocery store in the rain.
because all I wanted was potato goodness.
because I love the color of turmeric and curry.
because spicy is nice.
because curry totally does not go with coffee but I made it work anyway.
Crispy, baked fries are spiced with curry and red pepper flakes. Spicy. Salty. Yummy. I used egg white as a binder because I like the way it makes the spices stick to the potato. If you want to make these more of a vegan treat, you an simply toss the potatoes in olive oil and sprinkle the spice on top. You know?
For the dipping sauce, I combined thick Greek yogurt with cumin, olive oil and salt. Simple and delicious. Healthy, too.. that’s just crazy.
Baked Curry Sweet Potato Fries with Yogurt Dipping Sauce
Makes 1 potatoes worth of fries. This recipe is easily multiplied
1 plump sweet potato/yam/orange-fleshed potato, peeled
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large egg white
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
Yogurt Sauce:
1/3 cup Greet yogurt
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon olive oil
salt to taste
Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Peel sweet potato and slice off the top and bottom points of the potato. With potato positioned north to south, use a large knife to slice potato into 1/3-inch potato planks. Stack planks in two piles, and slice, north to south, into 1/3-inch sticks. Fries!
Place potato sticks onto prepared baking sheet and toss with olive oil. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk egg white until foamy and frothy. Add curry powder, cumin, turmeric, and crushed red pepper flakes and whisk to incorporate. Pour the egg white mixture over the potato sticks and gentle toss to coat the potatoes.
Place in the oven and bake to desired doneness and crispiness, my fries took about 40 minutes. While the fries bake, stir together yogurt, cumin, olive oil and salt. Place in a small serving dish.
Remove fries from the oven and serve immediately with dipping sauce.
Recipe: Baked Curry Sweet Potato Fries
Summary: Deliciously spiced sweet potato fries
Ingredients
- 1 plump sweet potato/yam/orange-fleshed potato, peeled
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large egg white
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- Yogurt Sauce:
- 1/3 cup Greet yogurt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Peel sweet potato and slice off the top and bottom points of the potato. With potato positioned north to south, use a large knife to slice potato into 1/3-inch potato planks. Stack planks in two piles, and slice, north to south, into 1/3-inch sticks. Fries!
- Place potato sticks onto prepared baking sheet and toss with olive oil. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk egg white until foamy and frothy. Add curry powder, cumin, turmeric, and crushed red pepper flakes and whisk to incorporate. Pour the egg white mixture over the potato sticks and gentle toss to coat the potatoes.
- Place in the oven and bake to desired doneness and crispiness, my fries took about 40 minutes. While the fries bake, stir together yogurt, cumin, olive oil and salt. Place in a small serving dish.
- Remove fries from the oven and serve immediately with dipping sauce.
Preparation time: 10 minute(s)
Cooking time: 40 minute(s)
Diet type: Vegetarian
Diet (other): Low calorie
Number of servings (yield): 2
Meal type: snack
Culinary tradition: USA (General)
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These look fantastic. I will make them and eat them all in front of the tv :)
i adore sweet potato fries, but how did you know i was getting bored with them?
since i have a fully-stocked indian cupboard, i’m definitely ready to make these tonight:)
I’ve been in love with sweet potatoes/yams for years and bake/fry them all the time, but this recipe is just short of amazing! I made them last night for my family. My 5 kids LOVED them, hubby couldn’t get enough of them and my baby Ruthie cried when they were all gone. The spice combination is so yummy and I never in a million years would have thought to put the eggs whites over the yams like that. It was so scrumptious! I eat these for breakfast, lunch, dinner ;) Thanks for sharing!!!
I LOVE this!! I cannot wait to try it out! Thank you so much!
I love curry and this is a great idea. I really need to try this, thanks Joy!
Oh Joy!
I made these last night and yum yum yum, were they ever good! I’ve been trying to go a little more “Primal” in my diet lately (i.e. meat, veggies, some fruit, nuts/seeds, no carbs) and this fits so perfectly into my eating plan! Thank you!
Although I don’t know that I would use olive oil in the yogurt sauce again. Felt it didn’t really add anything to the dip and was unnecessary calories as a result. I’ll just try yogurt+cumin next time and see how it goes.
Thanks for posting! You’re my fav food blogger, for the record!
i used a good quality california olive oil… the kind of olive oil that you don’t really use for frying food, you know? it has more flavor than most olive oils so it really came through in the yogurt. i suppose i should have mentioned that. thanks for the suggestion!
I just got a bottle of really fancy italian olive oil… maybe I will try that next time and see!
Just finished making…AND eating these. Very happy that I happened to have 2 large sweet potatoes in the fridge so I could double this recipe, because seriously? I just ate one whole potato’s worth of fries in one sitting. THEY ARE THAT GOOD.
They are in the oven… and they smell amazing!
Oh thi is just awesome! Anf these fries are baked, not fried in a greasy oil. It looks really good!
why hello chippies….yum!
oh my these look delish. I don’t remember the last time I fried a fry.. but I have not yet ever tried sweet potatoes as a fries substitute..
I love, love, love sweet potatoes! Especially “fries” baked in the oven! I cannot wait to try this recipe!! I’ve been cheating and get the frozen sweet potato fries from Costco now that I have a baby limiting my cooking time… I will get back to making things from scratch soon. :-)
We had these last week with dinner! I really like them with tzatziki – AH-MAY-ZING.
just made these with the world’s largest sweet potato. DELICIOUS! i like using the egg white as a binder, helps them crisp up a little bit. thank you joy!
I tried them, but after 25 minutes they were starting to burn. What did I do wrong???
The hubby and I love baked sweet potatoes, and they have long been our favorite at-home-date-night food. But baked sweet potato fries? Those sound even more amazing. We may have found a new love.
Hey. this is just what I have been looking for. I hope I can double the recipe and share
This. looks. divine.
I am in love.
If you’re using egg whites as a binder, why not make a nice aioli to dip? So yummy with sweet potato fries! :-)
Oooooh, I have to try this! Sounds so good!
these are delicious! i had friends over for dinner last night and made them the only problem was i forgot to spray the aluminum foil with cooking spray and they stuck! oops.
Looks really yummy. I put Curry on everything, even my eggs but i’m West Indian so I don’t know I just grew up on the stuff. I think i’ll try these anything for Curry!
Those look so good! I’ve got to try those. Yummm
nice little dishes you have there….thief.
i don’t know what on earth you’re talking about.
Oooohhh sweet potato fries + curry sounds delicious!
Oh yes. Delish. And I would totally eat these for breakfast. Maybe tomorrow. Tonight they were on the dinner table, and (almost) everyone loved them. Ya know, five-year-olds have lame palates. Anyhoo. I’d like some shallots or garlic or chives in that dipping sauce. Or all three.
OH.MY.GOODNESS I made these last night and were delicious :) The egg white is a great idea to help all of the spices stick, and also to make the baked fries a bit crunchier. Thanks!
oh wow – sounds great! can’t wait to try this. saving it (http://cookmarked.com)!
I just used these seasonings on sweet potato chips instead of fries…Oh. My. Gosh. They are SO good. I’m the only one home…this could be dangerous…Thanks for the awesome recipe/idea/inspiration!! :) Have a great day!
Mmmmm these look delish. Just made sweet potato fries this weekend but they were missing something–this is it! Genius.
Mmmmm these look delish. Just made sweet potato fries this weekend but they were missing something–this is it! Genius!
Made these last night. They were UHmazing. Thanks for sharing! Love how the eggwhites made them super crispy-crunchtastic.
Yum, they look and sound fantastic!!!
I made these. They were good. So good I ate two sweet potatoes worth, and my stomache felt very full. But I was happy.
My 3-year old couldn’t get enough. I loved the yogurt dip.
These are the best! Such deliciousness =)
I’m so making these fries tonight!!! I have all I need :))
Joy- I’ve been eating these with your buttermilk ranch dressing…it is ridiculous!
Joy, I made these last week after the munchkins had their meal. They were hovering about, trying to snack on my fries! I had to put my foot down! This was pure deliciousness! Thanks for the great recipe!
Yum! I just roasted some sweet potatoes with olive oil and pumpkin pie spice the other day, and they were such a treat! I think I’ll try your spicy/salty version next.
Back to report that I’ve grilled sweet potato slices a few times recently with this spice mixture, and they are quite delish. And the baby cannot get enough of them.
Thanks for sharing this – these were amazing!! I posted a version of these in my blog at http://niinam-nam.blogspot.com/ and linked your blog in the text too. Mine is only in Finnish though but u already know the recipe :D yum!
My mom made these the other night, but she didn’t have a lot of time so instead of putting the curry mixture on the potatoes, she put it in the yogurt. It was so good! Just the right amount of curry, and although the fries were a little soggy (she thinks the oven wasn’t hot enough) they were delicious! Some of the curry-yogurt sauce got on my corn and even that tasted good! Great recipe, Joy!
Didnt turn out great for me… The fries stuck to the parchment paper…
oh no! i hate this! maybe spraying the parchment with nonstick spray would help!
After using this recipie with just about any root veggie I could get my hands on, today I felt a little brave and decided to try something new: eggplant, on the grill. And zooommmggg so delicious. I think I ate an entire large eggplant, by myself. Tots real life. This is healthy right? Hahaha..