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. ย Spicy. ย Salty. ย Yummy. ย I used egg white as a binder because I like the way it makes the spices stick to the potato. ย 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. ย You know?
For the dipping sauce, I combined thick Greek yogurt with cumin, olive oil and salt. ย Simple and delicious. ย Healthy, too.. that’s just crazy.
Baked Curry Sweet Potato Fries
- Prep Time: 10 minute(s)
- Cook Time: 40 minute(s)
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
- Category: Snack
- Cuisine: USA
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
Deliciously spiced sweet potato fries. Makes 1 potatoes worth of fries. ย This recipe is easily multiplied
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.
195 Responses
mm these sound really good, thanks for sharing this.
Simon
oh man. these fries are so going to get me laid! :-p
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..
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!
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!
Thanks for sharing this – these were amazing!! I posted a version of these in my blog at https://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!
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.
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.
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!
Joy- I’ve been eating these with your buttermilk ranch dressing…it is ridiculous!
I’m so making these fries tonight!!! I have all I need :))
These are the best! Such deliciousness =)
My 3-year old couldn’t get enough. I loved the yogurt dip.
I made these. They were good. So good I ate two sweet potatoes worth, and my stomache felt very full. But I was happy.
Yum, they look and sound fantastic!!!
Made these last night. They were UHmazing. Thanks for sharing! Love how the eggwhites made them super crispy-crunchtastic.
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.
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!
oh wow – sounds great! can’t wait to try this. saving it (https://cookmarked.com)!
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 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.
Oooohhh sweet potato fries + curry sounds delicious!
nice little dishes you have there….thief.
i don’t know what on earth you’re talking about.
Those look so good! I’ve got to try those. Yummm
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!
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.
Oooooh, I have to try this! Sounds so good!
If you’re using egg whites as a binder, why not make a nice aioli to dip? So yummy with sweet potato fries! :-)
This. looks. divine.
I am in love.
Hey. this is just what I have been looking for. I hope I can double the recipe and share
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.
I tried them, but after 25 minutes they were starting to burn. What did I do wrong???
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!
We had these last week with dinner! I really like them with tzatziki – AH-MAY-ZING.
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. :-)
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..
why hello chippies….yum!
Oh thi is just awesome! Anf these fries are baked, not fried in a greasy oil. It looks really good!
They are in the oven… and they smell amazing!
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.
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!
I love curry and this is a great idea. I really need to try this, thanks Joy!
I LOVE this!! I cannot wait to try it out! Thank you so much!
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 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:)
These look fantastic. I will make them and eat them all in front of the tv :)
I’ve never been able to make my sweet potato fries crispy, so I’m really looking forward to trying this.
Thanks!
I foresee these counting as my daily vegetable for at least a month, probably more. Yum!!
Yes, please! Baked sweet potato fries are my go-to snack but with curry?! I’ve gotta try it!
I love sweet potatoes and eat them quite often when the hubby goes out of town. I really like making sweet potato fries with Old Bay seasoning.
I don’t even like sweet potatoes, but you make these look goooood.
For reals…I’d eat these for breakfast, lunch, dinner and in between. I’m somewhat of a sweet potato addict, then couple them with curry…holla!!
~Kristin
Yummmmzzz! Sweet potato can never go wrong!! Mushy, crispy, either way it’s always tasty.
Mmmm…I love baked sweet potato fries. Never heard of using egg whites before, sounds intriguing. I usually just use cinnamon and chili powder with a little olive oil. I have to try this! Your recipes always look so good!
id have this for brekkie anyday! just made them for lunch today (without the sauce tho)…omgosh so good!! thanks for such a delicious recipe :D
This is a really creative sweet potato recipe. I love sweet potatoes!
I bet they are so crunchy. Yum!
1. not weird that these were your breakfast. I actually had sweet potato fries for breakfast (leftovers) last weekend (along with some curry mayo…yum)
2. i love sweet potato fries with a warm goat cheese dip…its unreal!
3. these fries look amazing and i can’t wait to try them
Mmmm. I always just toss with olive oil and fresh thyme and salt. I will now try this new yummy curry version. I love the cooking discovering made when refusing to go to the grocery store!
I have made them with cumin before but never curry. This sounds delicious.
Mmmmm. I love sweet potato fries. I usually go for garam masala seasoning, but love the idea of the egg whites. Never thought of that.
And the yogurt dipping sauce! Yum! Will definitely try that.
:)
I’m just so impressed with the versatility of fries. You can mix it with so many different flavors – maybe an Indian variant is in order (although I guess the use of curry powder does have some similarities).
forget the olive oil… mix some coconut oil with vegetable oil (coconut has a low smoke point) and go to town.
I have always wanted my baked sweet potato fries to get crisp – I bet that egg white does the trick! I have to try this recipe!
Maybe not good for breakfast but this recipe is INCREDIBLE! I will try it!
These look sooo good. I have all the ingredients except sweet potatoes…if I’d seen this before my grocery store run I totally would have made these tonight!
Oh, I’m making these tonight. Fo Sho. I was going to make regular old baked sweet potato fries, but I’m taking your advice and stepping it up a notch! Should go perfect with panko crusted oven baked chicken fingers. Seriously…junk food made healthy.
I can totally dig that. Might have to eat it in front of the tv watching trashy shows too. Like a cherry on top. ;)
Best. Breakfast. Ever.
Sweet potato fries are my fav – love that these are baked! The curry sounds totally yummy!
MMMM these sound DELISH! Breakfast on tuesday, check!
seriously? I could eat this everyday. love that it’s not fried. thanks for the post!
Be still my jiggly bottom… I will definitley be making these soon!!! Love fries (even for breakfast!) :)
I’ve been baking sweet potato fries with garam masala lately and LOVE that spice combination. I imagine it’s pretty similar to this one.
Sounds delicious. I have three sweet potatoes and two yukons in the fridge now. Might combine them and try this tonight!
Am I the only one getting this weird message( cpoied below) all over this blog? It is in the side bar and above the header and multiple times in between the comments?? Help!!!
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Yeah, I got that as well, but I figured it was something to do with the US changing the clocks before the UK. It’s gone now for me though…
i got that too + @ first i freaked out as well- but then i realized maybe its b/c i live in the east + joy lives in the west, like LA and i’m NOT like totally cold and opposite :P haha but to be honest it may be b/c of spring + random time changes going on, i concor!~
love, lurve, loving doving dovy these sweet potatoes and can’t wait to knaw on them tomorrow morning with some almond milk (ur recipe as well) mmm :D
MMMMMmmmmm, these look so good! I wonder if it would be ok to make them with normal spuds though, I don’t have any sweet potatoes in and the shop is so far into the outside.
these would be great with regular potatoes!
mmm…i love curried sweet potato fries! they’re so delish with yellow split pea dahl.
i always eat weird stuff for breakfast. pot roast, a turkey sandwich, leftover chicken and dumplings…i’m not normal. i’m a bigger fan of b4d. breakfast for dinner. it’s the best!
I’m sold! Going to try this out tonight. I noticed a typo in your recipe, “Greet yogurt.” This also reminded me of a piece Mark Bittman did a while back on turning regular yogurt ‘greek.’
https://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/greek-yogurt/
Always enjoy you sharing your experiences. Thanks so much.
I would love some of those for lunch right now….
yum!
i love you
They look DELICIOUS! Definitely good enough to have for breakfast…or right this second.
While eating your sweet potato ‘n kale soup recipe leftovers for lunch just now, I see this. I can’t get enough of the sweet potatoes. I will make these for me and my wife and daughters as soon as I get home!
I could eat a whole mess of these fries right about now! Love the idea of adding curry too.
Spices – just lovely!
we had sweet potato fries last night! next time i’ll do the egg-white + spice thing.
I have two yams/sweet potatoes looking for some action. Perfect idea! Your timing could not be better!
Uh…what??? These look uh-may-zing. I have to try these, sweet potatoes are definitely my vegetable of choice at the moment. And the spicy yogurt sauce? Totally my style! Awesome.
Yum, I cannot get enough curry these days! I love the egg white idea too.
those look amazing! Is the egg white the trick to making the fries crisp up? I can’t seem to get mine crispy enough.
cool technique… I’ve never used egg white like this before, I’ll have to give it a try next time.
I have sweet potato fries in my freezer~this would be a perfect way to add some pizzaz to them!
Can I make these without the spice? (Just by stopping at the egg white part?????) I love sweet potato fries… just not into the spicyness of it all. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
you could surely make these without the spice. i might even skip the egg white part. just go for olive oil, salt, and pepper.
absolutely nothing weird about sweet potato fries for breakfast girl….i say ‘bring it!’ sweet potatoes and curry…two of my absolute favorites!!! i’ll be making these fo sho!
Seriously perfection!! There’s nothing I love more than baked sweet potato fries… Unless, of course, it’s baked sweet potato fries with curry :) Must try!
I would like to share that I eat sweet potatoes every. single. day.
This means I have made every. single. sweet potato recipe. on your site. Your curried sweet potato soup is heavenly. I’m only cooking for one, and double it to have in my freezer at all times.
Thank you for posting yet another.
PS. I made a kick ass sweet potato (and ricotta!) tart the other day. See my website for recipe!
that tart looks pretty amazing Jordan! it’s got my wheels turning.
You said the magic words… “crispy baked fries”!
I could seriously eat sweet potato fries every day! I’ve never made a curry version, but I love them spicy, yum!
Joy! I am ALL. OVER. THESE. Thanks so much for the egg white idea–I am a fan of maximum spice-stickage!
p.s. I’ve been talking to and smiling at strangers and it’s been rad. xo
I love sweet potato fries. Never curry spiced them up, I usually just toss them in Rosemary, salt and pepper, and canola oil before baking them. Gotta try these!!!
I like your breakfast thoughts…this morning I had Lucini chickpea frittata with sweet potato & almond butter puree. delicious and filling
You know, if you shredded that sweet potato, mixed it up with everything and made potato pancakes, all of a sudden your fries don’t seem like that odd of a breakfast. :) I’ve been wanting to do that for awhile now and now want to try with this sauce!
I haven’t tried curry on sweet potato fries yet, but I thought about it…. I think you just convinced me I’m not crazy ;)
deliciousness!!
I love sweet potato fries. I usually make them on the sweeter side with brown sugar. These sound really good I will have to make these next time.
These sound amazing. We must have been on the same wave length, yesterday, as we made a sweet potato dish as well. I will have to try making fries with a curry seasoning, never considered before.
Happy Monday!
I love sweet potato fries and that yogurt dip is calling my name, girl!
I would eat these for breakfast any day of the week! The spice combo sounds amazing!
These look delish. I must try them!
Sweet potato fries are one of my favorite things ever. I just made homemade curry powder, so I think I might try these out for dinner soon. Thanks :)
I love sweet potatoes in any form! I make a version with cumin and a touch of brown sugar…always a winner!
I love this curry fries breakfast. Would go amazing with coffee. And beer.
And if you get up at 11 like I do, it’s brunch so you can drink beer with it.
No judgements.
NOM! Oh my goodness. How delicious sounding (and looking)!
Sweet potatoes are the prettiest potato, don’t you think? And I’ve been really into them lately. Adding them to my savory mexican-inspired dinners.
And I’m totally down with this breakfast. I don’t judge.
These looks great. I am going to make them for my Toddler…he loves sweet potatos and curry. Why I never thought of the two together is besides me.
Thanks.
Wow.
When you can make something delicious out of what you already have in your pantry AND it ends up being healthy AND it turns out to be delicious?!?!
Serious winner.
I can’t wait to try these – thanks for the recipe!!
Ooh, I have been so enamored with all things sweet potato, but most particularly fries as of late. I make mine with chili powder and paprika, and then do a dip with sour cream, mayo, honey, garlic, lime juice and more paprika and chili powder. Deeelish.
I’ll have to give your cooking instructions a shot; last time I missed the window on mine and ended up with charred sweet potato sticks. Tragic.
Baked sweet potato or casserole. I’ll pass. But try and stop me from devouring sweet potato fries! curry is a favorite spice.
guess what’s for breakfast next weekend!
Yummy. I love sprinkling curry powder on my sweet potato fries, diced sweet potato, baked sweet potato… all sweet potato!
I’m making sweet potato fries this afternoon. Right now I’m visiting my family in Atlanta, so I’ve decided to incorporate pecans. I’ll put the secret recipe on my blog as soon as I perfect them!
The only thing better than “dinner for breakfast” is “breakfast for dinner!” I LOVE this!!!
Man, I just made sweet potatoes fries last night, but these look so much better! Bookmarked!
Oh man, I’ve been on a major sweet potato fries kick lately, but for me that means buying the frozen Ore-Ida bag and eating them all (I totally misread the serving size on that package and thought they were healthier than they really were….) . This sounds easy enough that I could make them fresh myself! Thanks, Joy!
Oh how I love sweet potato fries! I usually cover mine in chili powder, but I’ll have to try it in curry. Sounds really good! :)
Sweet potato fries are so last year. But add curry and they’re totally in style again! Yay! :)
I’ve read that if you soak your sweet potato before baking, and then bake them at 400 for 20ish minutes before reducing the heat to 200* for another 20ish minutes you will end up with crunchier fries (there was a small article about this tip in the latest issue of Clean Eating). Have you ever tried that? We did this the other week, but I think I cut my fries too big.
i have not tried this! thanks for the tip!
Now that’s my kind of breakfast!
Curry and sweet potatoes are one of my all time favorite flavor combos. Those little spice trays are too cute!
I make these all the time, almost same sauce too. I use cultured sour cream, cumin, salt and chopped up green onions and cilantro. They are highly addictive but good for you too so no guilt :)
I’ll have to try that instead of my usual plate of porridge.
I absolutely LOVE all things sweet potato…I need to make this…for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Those look great and just what I have a hankering for… thnks for the vegan option as well. What is the oven temp? I think I will throw a bit of cinnamon and ginger too just for kicks.
Yum, yum. Can’t eat too many potatoes in my unsolicited opinion.
I see the temp now… sorry!
I could definitely eat these for breakfast – anything with sweet potatoes, and I’m sold. I also happen to love curry powder, so I will absolutely be making these fries!
wow….;-)
Mmmm curry fries sound awesome! I’m excited to try these :)
What a perfect comfort food. And even better on the BBQ I’d have thought. Mmmm… chargrilled sweet curried potato.
Guessing that the 1/4 cup of ground cumin might be 1/4 teaspoon or another measurement? Love the idea of using egg white for this recipe. Another winner – thank you, Joy!
I was also shocked by the amount of cumin. But then I started wondering if that is what would make it awesome…. Joy are you gonna weigh in on this?
yep! 1/4 teaspoon cumin. so sorry!!
Oooooo! I wish I didn’t have work today. Sweet potato fries are my favorite!! And the fact that these are baked – awesomeness! I also like the yogurt dipping sauce, as opposed to ketchup. My boyfriend and I use Greek yogurt with olive oil and salt for pitas – sooo good. As always Joy, thank you again for another great recipe.
Oh those look tooooo perfect, Joy! I love the arrangement; they are staggered yet irregular. I swear, I have become obsessed with picture taking the past 6 mos and your photos always impress :) Recipes too, of course!
I love sweet potato fries, but I’ve never made them with curry before. Looks and sounds delicious, so I definitely need to try this way. Thanks!
I always make sweet potato fries the same way with the same seasonings but this sounds delicious for a change!
Curry Sweet Potato Fries!? That’s genius. We will definitely be eating these tonight.
I made spicy potato wedges for dinner last night (I have a wavy cutter: best $2 gadget I’ve ever bought). I never use either oil or egg whites as binder and my spices stick fine! I made mine with some tiny potatoes (like baby yukon golds) and put curry powder, chipotle powder, crushed red pepper flakes and freshly ground pepper in a freezer bag and shook them with the potatoes until they were completely coated. Of course, it is probably harder to get a good coating with fries. I’ll have to try yours and see if I get better spice coverage. Yum!
I officially have a crush on you. I’m sitting on the beach in Dubai and have a serious urge to go back to the house and cook this. You rock!
When I was 20 I was used to have breakfast with chickpeas and balsamic salad or anchovies…I think this is super perfect for breakfast! ^_^
I like the idea to use egg white to let the spices stick to the potatoes, this is brilliant…
I love eating more savory foods for breakfast. I have been known to eat vegetables for breakfast which are often overshadowed by sugary items for the am. Balance my friends, balance.
I agree that eggs whites are a brilliant binding medium.
Cheers!
So sweat !
But I think I can’t wait potatos baked 40 minutes!
I need someone make them for me ; )
LOVE that last shot, and love the fact they aren’t fried too. no-fry fries, nice one Joy.
Sweet potatoes are amazing. Who knew curry would work? Well clearly you did amigo
Seriously? You had sweet potato fries for breakfast?!
Damn – I am super envious of anyone who lives with you! Most mornings, fixing myself anything beyond toast is a struggle!