Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Sweet Sweet Potato Fries!

I almost feel bad for it... ALMOST. My son loves french fries-the grease covered, trans fat (or extremely high saturated fat-take your pick) laden white potatoes that are served at every fast food restaurant nationwide. I, on the other hand-refuse to let him have them... I won't publicly name the person that let him start on the "other" kind. Tonight for dinner- I wanted something easy-no fuss and no fuss from my kiddo. Eat and be happy. Enter in: The sweet potato. I love sweet potatoes-not only is it great nutrition, its a much better choice than your everday potato. It's time for some Healthy Switching!
I decide sweet potato fries are what's on the menu and they turned out pretty darn good, if I may say so myself! ...and the rate they are currently disappearing off my son's plate is evidence enough for me!


Here's what you'll need:

  • 1 medium to large (depending on how many your serving) sweet potato
  • 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp cinnamon, to taste
  • sea salt, to taste
  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
  2. lightly spray a nonstick bake sheet
  3. cut up the potato into french fry shapes (it helps to go in half and then half and then make it smaller from there, to resemble like above)
  4. add your oil and cinnamon and salt to a bowl and mix
  5. add the cut up sweet potato and mix to coat well
  6. bake on the baking sheet at 400 for 12 minutes-take out of oven and stir slightly and return to oven for 8 minutes or to desired doneness.
  7. Serve!

1 comment:

  1. Were yours crispy? I tried them last night and they were gross :( Burnt, but mushy

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