salty spicy sweet potato fries
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Yield 4 servings
These salty spicy sweet potato fries, covered in sticky sauces and nuts (rather like me on holiday), are absolutely bloody amazing and I won't have a bad word said against them. You could probably make this recipe using normal potatoes but if you're going to do that, you might as well come round and tell me you hate me to my face.
We've upgraded the recipe a little as when we first published it, sriracha was a pain in the arse to come by. And to spell. Now you can find it everywhere, and we've swapped the satay and hoisin sauces for their 'dipping' equivalents - much nicer, trust me. They can all be found in your local Tesco'sse'sesse'sses.
Ingredients
- 1kg of sweet potato fries (we use the McCain Signature ones because they crisp up rather than going to mush)
- 2 tablespoons of satay dipping sauce
- 2 tablespoons of sriracha or hot sauce
- 2 tablespoons of hoisin dipping sauce
- 40g of roasted salted peanuts, half chopped fine, half chopped coarse
- three spring onions, chopped
- sprinkling of chilli flakes
- 1kg sweet potatoes
- 2 tbsp satay sauce (2 syns)
- 2 tbsp sriracha (1 syn)
- 2 tbsp hoisin dipping sauce (3 syns)
- 15g dry roasted peanuts (about 4 syns)
- 2 spring onions, sliced
Instructions
- cook your sweet potato fries in the oven until they're nice and crispy and then tip into a bowl
- tumble them around in the sauces with the finely chopped peanuts and then tip onto a plate
- top with the rest of the peanuts, spring onion and chilli flakes
Notes
Recipe
- you can make your own sweet potato fries if you want - slice up a load of sweet potatoes, tumble them in oil, wince because I used tumble, cook in the oven - calories will drop, but honestly for the sake of a quick dinner it's not worth it
- a good friend of mine got me into crispy chilli in oil and it goes perfect on a dish like this, it's a very savoury, umami flavour rather than chilli - if you've never tried it you are genuinely missing out - you can order it here
Books
- does it need to be said - book two is still the very best if you're wanting slimming recipes: order yours here!
- let's hear it for book one too - the cookbook that started it all: click here to order
- we've got a planner too: here
Tools
- absolutely unapologetic about this one - we have been trying to find a decent baking tray for ages where nothing sticks to it (I make a lot of biscuits) and this Le Creuset baking tray never fails us
Courses side dishes
Cuisine vegetarian
Recipe by twochubbycubs at https://twochubbycubs.com/2022/01/15/salty-spicy-sweet-potato-fries/