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!
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
Tummy! Great idea adding the sesame!
These look absolutely delicious!
looks so delicious and I love the blue background
I LOVE sweet potatoes!!
As soon as my oven is back in commission, I am SO making these! Amazing.
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
I love the look of these and that they are sweet potato chips. I love sweet potato!!!
Delicious.
Is pregnancy a requirement for eating these?
Or perhaps they can help with my own milky pale skin?
New to the site, but can’t wait to try these!
These look amazing! I always have trouble getting my chips to turn crispy on the outside. What am I doing wrong?
Wow, healthy alternative! I love sweet potatoes and sesame seeds, love it!
Love sweet potatoes! I will try these for sure!
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.
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!