I love sweet potato fries. Especially when they are paired with a good dip and are actually crispy. I’ve had trouble making my sweet potato fries crispy in the past, though. Until I found this method, that is!
It’s really simple, but a couple extra steps and it makes all the difference!
You’ll need:
1 large sweet potato
2 TBL olive oil
2 TBL cornstarch
Oil for frying
Sea salt to taste
That’s it, so let’s get started!
Peel your sweet potato and cut into 1/2 fries.
Then put 2 TBL cornstarch in a large bag along with the fries and shake, shake, shake till the fries are coated in the cornstarch.
Next, put 2 TBL of olive oil in a bowl or on a cookie sheet and coat the fries in the oil as well.
Preheat deep fryer or bring a large heavy pot of oil to 375 degrees. Once at temp, place fries in oil (carefully):
After 7 minutes, they should look kinda like this:
Quickly upon removing fries from oil, sprinkle with desired amount of sea salt and toss to coat evenly on a paper towel-lined platter.
All done! Now wasn’t that easy? These were the best, crispest sweet potato fries I’ve ever had and I hope you enjoy them as well. I served mine with french dip sammies. I’ll be making the french dips again and blogging that super easy recipe soon. They were so delcious!
Thank you so much for this recipe!! I had my first sweet potato fries at Wendy’s last summer, but they quit making them. What’s sad is that I never go out to eat, but I fell in love with those fries. I can’t wait to make them myself. YUM!