Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Healthy Baked Sweet Potato Fries (No Oil!)



Ingredients:
parchment paper + baking sheet
sweet potatoes
imagination and an appetite
spices (sweet): cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, coconut palm sugar
spices (savory): cayenne pepper, black pepper, red pepper flakes, cajun seasoning (I used this one!), curry powder, smoked paprika, garlic, onion, etc.

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper
3. Thoroughly wash sweet potatoes and cut into desired shapes
4. Place sweet potatoes on baking sheet, add spices, and place into oven for about 20 minutes*. You’ll want the sweet potatoes to have acquired some softness. It’s ok if they are not fully cooked yet, this will happen in the next step.
5. Take out of oven and mix sweet potato fries around so they achieve thorough baking
6. Set oven to low broiler** and bake for 10 minutes, or until tops are slightly burnt
7. Take out of oven and mix around again. If fries aren’t slightly burnt yet, then follow step #8:
8. Place oven on HIGH broiler*** and cook for 5 minutes, or until tops are slightly burnt.
9. Let cool slightly and eat.

Recommendations:
For sweet: drizzle some raw honey on top
For savory: drizzle unrefined coconut oil
Regardless you should a little fat source, such as virgin coconut oil, cold-pressed extra-virg. olive oil, walnuts/pecans etc., avocado, as the fat-soluble beta-carotene (Vit. A) can be assimilated by the body with said fat source.

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