Description
Deliciously spiced sweet potato fries. Makes 1 potatoes worth of fries. This recipe is easily multiplied
Ingredients
Scale
- 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.