Sweet Potato Fries:

My wife got me a deep fryer for Valentines day. Now I know how silly that might seem to some people but
for myself, it was a great gift. I immediately fried up some catfish and hush puppies and in the 2 months I’ve owned it we’ve fried shrimp, pork chops, twinkies, snickers, rolos and even gave lettuce a try one night but I’m not here to talk about any of those. I wanna tell you about sweet potato fries and how to kick out a kick ass plate of ‘em.

All of this can be accomplished sans a deep fryer…it just isn’t quite as cool.

• Cut your sweet potatoes to the size and thickness you like and put them into a large bowl of ice cold water.

• Start heating your oil to 325 degrees.

• Once your oil is up to temp, pat dry the fries and put them in for approx. 8 minutes and remove them. They won’t look done but it’s okay, they aren’t supposed to be. Place them on a paper towel lined baking sheet and set aside.

• Increase your oil temp to 375 degrees

• Once the oil is up to temp put the fries back in for about 5 minutes but pay attention to them after 3…Once they look done get them out of there and back onto a paper towel lined baking sheet.

Season and enjoy. We dust ours with a little red pepper and salt. This isn’t exactly the most healthy thing you can eat but who cares. It tastes great. The pictures below are from dinner the other night. I gotta say, it’s really hard to make fried food look good but it’s really easy to make it taste good.