Spicy Sesame-Roasted Sweet Potato Chips
This recipe comes with a health warning. Once you take a bite you won’t be able to stop!
I love sweet potatoes. One of my favourite snacks is to switch on the oven, chuck in a few whole sweet potatoes and bake them for 45 minutes or so, while I’m busily doing something else. With great anticipation I’ll remove them from the oven, half them lengthways, drown them in chunks of butter and eat much more than I should. That was until I came across this recipe…
Due to the sweet potato’s high beta-carotene content, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the baby came out with an orange skin, resembling Lindsay Lohan and other fake-tan obsessed Hollywood celebrities. That’s to give you an idea of how many of these chippies I ate during pregnancy… You’ve been warned!
Source: Abel & Cole Cookbook
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Spicy Sesame-Roasted Sweet Potato Chips
Preparation Time: 5 mins – Cooking Time: 15 mins
Ingredients
- 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into fat chips
- 30ml (2 tbsp) olive oil
- 30ml (2 tbsp) sesame seeds
- a dash of Tabasco sauce
- sea salt and freshly ground pepper
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/390°F/gas mark 6.
- Toss the sweet potatoes in the oil, sesame seeds and seasonings and roast in the oven for about 15 minutes, till tender within and crisp outside, the sesame seeds golden brown and clinging to the potatoes.
Serving Suggestion
- Enjoy as a snack or as an accompaniment in a main meal.
These look fantastic!
by Sarah, Maison Cupcake
on 20. Jul, 2010
hmmm the sweet potatoes we get here in pakistan are not orange…they’re just boring old pale white…i wish we had em orange here…i usually eat em baked in the microwave and then drenching them with sweet tamarind sauce and chat masala
by maria
on 20. Jul, 2010
Tummy! Great idea adding the sesame!
by Marie Lathey
on 20. Jul, 2010
[...] Spicy Sesame-Roasted Sweet Potatoes – I’m always excited to see new varieties of sweet potatoes and new varieties of fries. This happens to fulfill both of those things. Apparently they are especially tasty if you happen to be with child! (@ Greedy Gourmet) [...]
by Around the Internet Kitchen: Good Luck! | Macheesmo
on 23. Jul, 2010
These look absolutely delicious!
by Peggy
on 23. Jul, 2010
looks so delicious and I love the blue background
by Veggie Belly
on 23. Jul, 2010
I LOVE sweet potatoes!!
by Jess--Sugar High
on 24. Jul, 2010
As soon as my oven is back in commission, I am SO making these! Amazing.
by Joanne
on 24. Jul, 2010
These look delish! I love sweet potatoes!
I really hope you will submit it to my new “vegan finds” site:
http://www.findingvegan.com
Kathy
by kathy
on 25. Jul, 2010
I love the look of these and that they are sweet potato chips. I love sweet potato!!!
Delicious.
by delicieux
on 27. Jul, 2010
Is pregnancy a requirement for eating these?
Or perhaps they can help with my own milky pale skin?
by Marisa
on 27. Jul, 2010
New to the site, but can’t wait to try these!
by Jacky W
on 27. Jul, 2010
These look amazing! I always have trouble getting my chips to turn crispy on the outside. What am I doing wrong?
by Jessica
on 30. Jul, 2010
Wow, healthy alternative! I love sweet potatoes and sesame seeds, love it!
by Pam @ Kitchen Cookware Set
on 05. Aug, 2010
Love sweet potatoes! I will try these for sure!
by Ingrid
on 08. Aug, 2010
These look absolutely delicious. Love roasted sweet potatoes already but would never have thought to add sesame seeds.
Also @ Jessica above: Make sure you’re adding plenty of oil. Many people make the mistake of trying to go healthy and not adding enough oil and the chips won’t crisp properly. Also make sure the oven is really hot, turning up the heat towards the end of cooking if required.
by Mango Recipes
on 13. Aug, 2010
I left out the Tabasco and instead had a generous helping of spicy brown mustard on the side for dipping. Fan-tastic! Thank you for this!
by How's it Taste?
on 26. Aug, 2010