Hello and welcome to In The Kitchen With Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make yummy
sweet potato fries.
Oh, yeah.
I have a couple other French fry videos here on my channel,
just like a classic French fry and also, air fryer
French fry.
And now I'm going to do sweet potato french fries.
Really easy to do.
Simple ingredients.
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Let's get started down below in the description box,
you'll find a list of the ingredients and there amounts
began with two or three sweet potatoes.
Depending on how many people you want to serve, each sweet
potato will roughly make enough for one person, maybe depending
on the size.
So maybe one and a half per person.
And what we want to do is make sure to wash and dry the
outside of it.
And then we are going to just peel our sweet potato.
And make sure your hands are clean because you will be
touching the outside of the sweet potato.
All right, and then you can just compose or just throw
away those skins.
And now I'm just going to cut off the ends here
and then we want to cut these into fry shapes, and then the
thinner you make them, the crispier the fries
will get in.
You want to make them kind of the right the same size as
close to as possible.
So for some of these, I might just go in half again.
And when they're near the same size and they will just just
help them to cook more even, and then I have a ball here
with water and a bit of salt, cold water, and we want to put
these in there and let them soak.
And that's going to help draw out the starch.
If you watch my other French fry videos, you notice I do the
same thing in those videos as well.
And then once you have the strips of sweet potato inside
the bowl of cold water, cold, salty water, then we're just
let this sit for about 30 minutes.
And again, this can help bring out the starch.
It's not in a step is not necessary, but it helps to
make them more crispy when we bake them.
Once the sweet potato fries have soaked in the water,
what I want to do is I'm going to just drain the water.
And then we want to dry the fries and I'm just going to
take some paper towel and you can use just like normal towels
if you don't want to use paper towels.
And unless just dry, these really will.
And then with the dried ones, I'm just going to take
another bowl
and put these in there.
And now I just have a little bull here and I'm going to add
about a fourth of a teaspoon of black ground pepper,
half teaspoon of garlic powder and a teaspoon of salt.
And you can adjust those according to your tastes.
And you could just use the salt if you want.
I'll just give that a good mix here.
OK, and also I have about two or three tablespoons
of cornstarch, and this is going to help the sweet potato
fries get more crispy.
And then what I'm going to do here is I'm going to take a
couple of tablespoons of olive oil.
And just drizzle that over the sweet potato fries.
When I take my seasonings, I will just.
Put that in there as well.
And I'll take the cornstarch.
Put that in there as well.
And then I just had this lead here, I'm going to just
put that on and we're going to shake it really well.
You could also do that all in like a Ziploc bag.
All right.
And these are nice and coated really well.
Awesome.
And now
I have a sheet pan here lined with parchment paper.
And then I'm going to just take these.
And spread them out, make sure they're not touching.
Put like a half of an inch or quarter of an inch
in between them.
And we will just lay these out again, use clean hands if
you're going to be touching these.
All right, like so and then if you need to do another
sheet pan, you can and then we want to bake these in the oven
at 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Make sure to preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
or 205 Celsius.
And we're going to bake these first for about 10 minutes.
And then we will flip them or turn them over and then baking
the game for another 10 or 15 minutes until they're nice
and golden brown.
All right.
So in the oven it goes.
And then on this one, I'm going to do a silicone mat.
If they don't turn out as crispy, I don't think on a
silicone that, but.
If you don't want to use parchment paper, you can
certainly use a silicone mat as well.
And then just keep in mind that if you're going to bake both of
these trays or both of these cheap hands in the oven at the
same time that you want to rotate them, move them from the
different racks to the other rack and also rotate them.
Inside the oven from like.
Horizontal to vertical and even.
And that will just help these base as evenly as possible
and then into the Ebony's go,
and when they come out of the oven, they will look
something like this.
Now, you can bake them a little bit longer if you want if you
want to get a more caramelized or more brown.
But I decided to take him out now because the fans were
starting to get a little burnt.
And so there you go.
They look really good.
And then you can just start to eat them if you want.
Look at that.
Dip it in some ketchup.
Yeah.
Mm
hmm.
A nice, crisp outer layer, nice and soft in the middle,
really, really good.
And then I just have them on this plate with some ketchup in
the middle, ready to serve.
There you go.
Some really yummy, super easy to make sweet potato fries.
If I can do it, you can do it.
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Time for me to dive into this.
So.
Yeah.
Mhm.
Yeah.
Mm hmm.
Hmm.
So good.