French Fried Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil sweet potatoes for 30 minutes until tender.
Peel and cut the boiled sweet potatoes.
Fry and drain
Heat oil in a frying pan.
Fry the sweet potato pieces until golden brown.
Remove and drain on paper towels.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Sweet potatoes
- Provides the starchy body; boiling softens them so they cook through while frying browns the outside.
- Oil
- Conducts heat quickly and browns the surface, creating the golden, crisp exterior.
The step that matters
Frying the cut potatoes in hot oil. Surface moisture from boiling makes oil spatter and steams the pieces, so they can turn soggy instead of crisp. Drying the pieces and keeping the oil hot helps the surface brown quickly and absorb less oil.
“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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