Sweet Potato French Fries

Recently when having dinner at a friends house (girl - you get all the credit here), I discovered the amazing, easy to make and so so yummy Sweet Potato Fries! Annnd now I am basically hooked!

Ingredients: 

1 Medium sized Sweet Potato (serves 2)   …or…  1 Large sized Sweet Potato (serves 3-4)

(Or if you are my boyfriend and I… we eat 1 Large Sweet Potato in one sitting… telling you…  we are hooked!!)  

1 Tbsp Vegetable or Olive Oil (whichever you happen to have)  

1 Tbsp Garlic Powder 

AND THAT'S IT! 

Total Cook time: 20 min

Total Prep time: 10 min

Directions: 

1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

2) Peel the sweet potato  

3) Chop up the potato to be the shape of french fries (Note: the thinner you slice them, the quicker they cook... so don't make them paper thin! You have been warned!) 

4) Place the "fries" into a galleon sizes ziplock bag

5) Add the garlic powder and cooking oil 

6) Best part: Shake! 

7) Place fries on an ungreased cookie sheet

8) Bake 10 minutes

9) Flip the fries 

10) Bake 10 more minutes 

11) Enjoy! 

If the yummy taste wasn't enough for you… here are some of the nutritional benefits of sweet potatoes! 

• They are high in ...
• Vitamin A
• They are also a very good source of …
• Vitamin C
• Manganese
• Copper
• Pantothenic acid
• Vitamin B6 
• Potassium
• Dietary fiber
• Niacin
• Vitamin B1
• Vitamin B2 
• Phosphorus

(Thanks Google Search!) 

This recipe has been a huge hit for us! Hope you can get some enjoyment out of it too! 

Best, <3 WC