I have to confess that we eat yam and or sweet potato fries on an almost weekly basis. It’s written into our code of meal planning and we abide by it almost religiously. There are weeks where we decide to take a little break but they somehow always seem a bit lacking and are generally followed by a week of yam overindulgence. This was one of those weeks.
For the most part I keep the flavoring of these fries pretty simple, they don’t require much more than a little bit of olive oil, salt and pepper and a hot oven to taste amazing. This time however I got a bit fancy, just a bit, with some cumin, chili and garlic infused olive oil. They were a bit spicy and the freshly ground cumin was just the thing to take our favorite simple indulgence to the next level.
Moroccan Spiced Yam and Sweet Potato Oven Fries – Serves 4
1 medium to large sweet potato
1 medium to large yam
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
2 tablespoons whole cumin
1 small dried chili
1 teaspoon kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
Preheat your oven to 400 fahrenheit.
In a small food processor, spice grinder or by hand with a mortar and pestle grind the cumin seeds and chili pepper together with the salt and pepper. Add in the olive oil and garlic cloves and process into a paste and set aside.
Peel both the yam and sweet potato and cut them into long thin strips about 1/3 of an inch wide and set aside.
Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper, I also like to lightly oil the parchment paper just to make sure they don’t stick.
In a large bowl toss the sweet potato and yams in with the oil and spice mixture and arrange on the prepared baking sheet. Make sure that they are arranged in a single layer and that none are overlapping and pop the baking sheet into the preheated oven for 20 – 25 minutes, turning half way through until the fries are golden brown and cooked through.
This looks delicious!!
Nisrine
This looks tasty!
I’m going to try it…