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- Michelle Schoffro Cook
- November 23, 2012
- 4:11 pm
- 110 comments
This alternative to French fries tastes better and is far better for you. You can use either yams or sweet potatoes. If you can’t tell them apart, yams are a creamy yellow on the inside while sweet potatoes are a bright salmon-orange color inside. Sweet potatoes are high in beta carotene, vitamins C and B6, as well as potassium, iron, and magnesium. Their rich orange color is the easy way to know that they are high in beta carotene, the precursor to vitamin A.
Ingredients:
4 yams or sweet potatoes
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 tsp unrefined sea salt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with unbleached parchment paper or lightly grease with extra-virgin olive oil or coconut oil.
Cut sweet potatoes or yams into strips similar to French fries. Try to cut them evenly so they’ll cook evenly. Place in a large bowl, drizzle with the 2 tablespoons of olive oil, and sprinkle with salt. Toss until evenly coated.
Place fries in a single layer on prepared baking sheet and bake for 3 minutes. Turn fries over and bake for 30 minutes or until lightly browned.
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Michelle Schoffro Cook
Michelle Schoffro Cook, MSc, RNCP, ROHP, DNM, PhD is an international best-selling and 14-time book author and doctor of traditional natural medicine, whose works include: 60 Seconds to Slim, Healing Recipes, The Vitality Diet, Allergy-Proof, Arthritis-Proof, Total Body Detox, The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan, and The Phytozyme Cure. Check out her natural health resources and subscribe to her free e-magazine World's Healthiest News at WorldsHealthiestDiet.com to receive monthly health news, tips, recipes and more. Follow her on Twitter @mschoffrocook and Facebook.
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+ add your ownEasy.... Yummy!
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Thank you for sharing.
thanks I always wanted this recipe
I've always had to bake my sweet potato fries significantly longer than the suggested 33 minutes of this recipe...maybe the first "3" minutes was a typo? I've always had to do mine in least an hour for them to be properly cooked through.
Also, I would suggest going VERY light on the oil, or else the potatoes may come out slightly soggy.
Last but not least, using a Creole seasoning on these adds some amazing flavor. (:
Enjoy!
their awesome.
will try ,thanks!
These are very tasty.
In BC, Canada - where most of our food is supplied from California, we don't have "yams are a creamy yellow on the inside while sweet potatoes are a bright salmon-orange color inside." It's precisely the opposite !!
Quite easy to tell the difference between the two because sweet potatoes appear lighter in colour on the outside.....
yummo
Use old bay seasoning for spicy fries.
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