Baked Sweet Potato Fries
Ingredients:
1 pound sweet potatoes, peeled
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon paprika
½ teaspoon salt
black pepper to taste
Directions:
- Heat the oven to 400.
- Cut the sweet potatoes into sticks that are about 1/2 inch wide and 3 inches long.
- Toss sweet potatoes with the olive oil and set aside.
- Mix the spices, salt, and pepper in a small bowl, and sprinkle them over the sweet potatoes. Cover a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and spread fries on top of it so that none are overlapping.
- Bake for about 15 minutes until golden brown and crisp on the bottom. Then, turn them over and cook until the other side is crisp – for about 10 minutes more.
Pro-tip: Prior to cooking, soak pre-cut sweet potatoes in water for an hour. This will help make the fries crisper.
Oven Baked Zucchini Chips
Ingredients:
1 Large zucchini
2 Tbl olive oil
Lemon pepper: a dash
Salt: a dash
Directions:
- Preheat oven 225
- Slice zucchini with a mandolin slicer: not to think not to thin
- Place the zucchini on a paper towel and place another paper towel on top to dry them out (get out as much water as possible)
- Place zucchini into a bowl and add the olive oil and mix
- Add parchment paper to a cooking sheet and add a little non stick oil to the parchment paper
- Add the zucchini on the tray with out over lapping
- Sprinkle the lemon pepper and salt
- Bake for 1.5-2 hrs (depending on thickness of chips)
- Check every 15-20 minutes and flip
- Remove chips when they are golden