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I've made both chips and fries from sweet potatoes, I prefer them to white. But home made chips need to be eaten promptly, either sweet or white potatoes, they don't keep well. Good excuse to pig out!
I make sweet potato fries a lot and they are really delicious. I put my slices in a plastic bag with some EVOO, sea salt, pepper and some spices. Mix them up making sure they're all covered. Take them out of the bag and put them on a cookie sheet. Bake 375 or until done.
I have never made sweet potato chips. I do like the Tera Chips brand.
I was watching Giada today and it was about sending a care package to her niece in college. She made beet chips and sweet potato chips. They looked interesting.
She used a mandolin to slice them thin and didn't peel either one. After frying she added kosher salt, minced garlic and chopped fresh rosemary that she mixed together. Has anyone ever made them or tasted them
I'm really wanting to make these now
Just curious...what is a mandolin....I'm jsut getting the instrument when I google....
It's actually spelled 'mandoline.' My gran called hers a kraut cutter, and I have a couple. One is a big old wooden one that actually would work for cutting cabbage into kraut, the other is a plastic one with interchangeable blades, so it cuts everything from chips to french fries to julienne strips. The ones on the websites are outrageously expensive [IMO] but that may be because I got both of mine for about .25 each at thrift shops.
has anyone actually sliced a raw sweet potato w/a mandoline?
I've got a pretty high end one and as far as I recall it could not slice a raw sweet potato. It was a disaster, and dangerous if you ask me.
Was the potato partially cooked?
I have bought sweet potato chips at Trader Joes, YUM! but homemade would be much better, if I could get a good way to slice them w/out the possibility of losing a finger.
has anyone actually sliced a raw sweet potato w/a mandoline?
I've got a pretty high end one and as far as I recall it could not slice a raw sweet potato. It was a disaster, and dangerous if you ask me.
Was the potato partially cooked?
I have bought sweet potato chips at Trader Joes, YUM! but homemade would be much better, if I could get a good way to slice them w/out the possibility of losing a finger.
I just slice with a knife if baking them, you can get them thin enough if you have a good knife!
Did you peel the potato before using your mandoline? The skin is fibrous and maybe would catch in the blade....?
Or try slicing at a diagonal angle, so you get a longer chip...
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