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In this post, I demonstrate the steps I took in order to cook delicious sweet yam fries. It is a fairly quick, affordable, and easy dish to make.
For two large sweet yams:
Prep Time: 30 min
Cooking Time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Materials:
Ingredients:
- Sweet yam
- Olive oil
- Grounded pink salt
- Grounded black pepper
Step 1
- Have your sweet large yam ready. (I had two.)
- Wash them first
- Then peal the skin using either a peeler or a knife (depending on your level of comfort)
- It took me about 10 minutes to peel 2 large yams
- Cut off the ends of the yams
- Rinse yams again
Step 2
- Preheat your oven for 425F
- Then, cut your yam into pieces resembling fries
- You also need a sharp knife to cut though the big block of yam on your cutting board before being able to cut the yams into strips
- From the initial big pieces of yam, I cut 6 to 8 pieces length wise using my palm down on the knife – but be careful while doing this
- Then from those 6 to 8 pieces I cut them into another 6 to 8 pieces and if some of the pieces are still thick, I go in again and cut them in halves
- Since the yams are elongated you can have really long fries – I personally love longer fries – but you can cut the pieces in half if you desire
- This step took me about 20 minutes to cut 2 full sized yams
Step 3
- Prepare your cooking trays (I used two: one for each yam)
- Cover them with aluminum foil
- Place your fries on the tray
- Cover with olive oil, I put around 40mL for each tray since I had a lot of fries
- You can add as little or as much as you want
- Then sprinkle some grounded pink salt and black pepper on your fries
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Step 4
- Put them your tray(s) into the oven but keep a watchful eye
- You can check with a fork to see if the fry is still too soft or getting too crunchy
- Since these are yams; they generally turn out to be more soft than crisp than if they were potatoes
- However, you can leave them in for a bit longer but be careful they don’t start to burn
- I let them cook for 20 minutes because they end up being in between soft and crisp
- If you take them out earlier, they can be too soft and fall apart
- Consequently if you leave them a bit later than 20 minutes, they then become crispier
Step 5 (Optional)
- Serve with ketchup or ranch sauce
- Add extra salt or pepper according to taste
I hope you enjoyed this recipe on how to cook sweet yam fries. I hope it was helpful and useful to you. I honestly recorded all of my steps and made others taste before creating this recipe.
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