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Step 5Baking!
Put them in the oven for 15 minutes. Do not open the oven or fidget with them during this time. Just let 'em cook. The smell will probably be too much to bear, so perhaps this is a good time to go to another room and focus on something else. :D
Then, take them out and flip them. I use my bare hands most of the time, but tongs work well too.
Once they're flipped, put them back in the oven for 10 minutes. :)
Both sides should now be dark brown and crispy and delicious. And hopefully spicy, if you followed my directions. Spicy is the way to go with sweet potato fries!
Keep in mind that I like mine REALLY dark and crispy. Should you want a lighter brown color, just reduce the cooking time a couple minutes for both sides.
Enjoy! :D
Additional cooking tips:
Then, take them out and flip them. I use my bare hands most of the time, but tongs work well too.
Once they're flipped, put them back in the oven for 10 minutes. :)
Both sides should now be dark brown and crispy and delicious. And hopefully spicy, if you followed my directions. Spicy is the way to go with sweet potato fries!
Keep in mind that I like mine REALLY dark and crispy. Should you want a lighter brown color, just reduce the cooking time a couple minutes for both sides.
Enjoy! :D
Additional cooking tips:
- these will not turn out very crispy at all if you're cooking anything else in the oven, or if the fries are crowded too close together. They'll sweat instead of crisp!
- keep an eye on them because ovens are tricksy little things. You don't want them to get black.
- also, a lighter colored baking sheet is preferable - mine are very dark and I've started to have to cut my cooking time a lot to avoid getting them too dark.
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Another terminological note: In the U.S., where I live most of the year, groceries often call sweet potatoes, particularly the orange ones, 'yams'. But the yam is a different root vegetable, native to Africa. It's starchier, less sweet, and (usually) larger. I see them in the U.S. only in African markets--yams are a staple food of sub-saharan Africa. In my opinion they're not as tasty as sweet potatoes--or at least, you need to do more to them to make them appetizing.
The sweet potato fries recipe is great!! Or rather, baked kumara chips as I believe they would be called here.
http://www.instructables.com/id/One-Minute-Mayonnaise/
I made them and the whole family enjoyed them!
Could you perch some cooling racks inside a cookie sheet, and place the pieces atop, in order to avoid the turning-over operation (air flow beneath) ?
I can't wait to bake these for Thanksgiving.
I'm not sure that the cooling racks would work, though, because you really want the fries to get as much surface contact as possible with the baking sheet so they get browned and crispy. But you could always do a test run!
The crowning touch was a drizzle of balsamic vinegar syrup (just boil 1 cup of vinegar until it reduces to 1/4 cup & store in the fridge) ... SO good.
I would imagine the addition of some chili powder to these would be really tasty, too!