French Fried Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil sweet potatoes for 30 minutes until tender.
Peel and cut them into slices.
Fry and serve
Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat.
Fry the sweet potato slices until golden brown.
Season with coarse sea salt before serving.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Sweet potatoes
- Provides the bulk and starch that turns soft when boiled and crisps at the edges when fried.
- Oil for frying
- Carries heat into the slices and browns them into a golden, crisp surface.
The step that matters
Fry until golden brown. The oil must be hot enough to brown the outside quickly. If it is too cool, the slices soak up oil and turn greasy; if too hot, the outside burns before the inside is heated through.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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