Sweet Potato Fries Food & Recipes

[Soffie]

I made my first attempt at cooking sweet potato fries the other day. Followed the instructions in a recipe, see below.

• Cut 3 medium potatoes into 1/2 inch sqaure cross section thickness.
• Placed on a Baking Tray, (without Grease Proof paper), spaced them out with at least 1/2 inch spacing between the fries.
• Sprinkled over the fries with 1 tablespoon of Olive Oil following by a light sprinkling of paprika on top, and then turned each of them over, the action of which further coated them in the sitting oil, and covered the other side with a another sprinkling of paprika.
• Fan cooked oven at 200DEG for 18mins.

They came out ok. Some around the edges of the baking try had black tips, so any longer they may have burned too much. They were tasty, some a little crispier than others.

I was wondering if anyone has any tips to make them even crispier, as in the type you would get in a restaurant?

I assume cooking Potato Wedges would work in the same way.

 

[Lisa]

You'll never get properly crispy sweet potato fries from fresh in the oven.

Even in the deep fat fryer, they need a cornflour coating to crisp up properly.

Your best bet for crispy actual fries at home is to buy them frozen and deep fat fry them. Air fryer second best.

I do love them oven cooked from fresh, but you just need to accept that crisp edges is the best you'll get. Oil and season them in a bowl first, and cook them on a wire rack as opposed to directly on the baking tray, you get better air circulation that way. Fan oven, 220C.