Ina Garten’s Baked Sweet Potato Fries are easy, fast, and flavorful!
Ina Garten’s Baked Sweet Potato Fries are super simple and quick. Two of my favorite things! The brown sugar adds to their sweetness, while the salt and pepper give them a savory flavor.
Baking these at a high temperature helps them to brown, leaving the delicious carmelization. The brown sugar also aids in the carmelization process.
The sweet potatoes available at my local supermarket are on the small side. Sometimes there are bigger ones available, but this time the smaller ones looked a lot better than the big ones so I chose those.
I am imagining that Ina’s sweet potatoes were bigger than mine. Because my sweet potatoes were small I opted to make one per person (even though there are only two in the photo). I also doubled the other ingredients and that is how I wrote the recipe below.
Next time I make them, if they are smaller ones, I will use a smaller amount of olive oil so they will brown up a little better. The sweet potatoes should be lightly coated in oil (at least that is how I like them), and mine were heavily coated. Even so, they were yummy!
This is one recipe that I will “eyeball” the amount of olive oil I use based on the size and amount of sweet potatoes I am working with.
Ina Garten’s Baked Sweet Potato Fries would go great with my Mini Meat Loaf or Herb Roasted Pork Tenderloin.
Ina Garten's Baked Sweet Potato Fries
Ingredients
- 4 sweet potatoes peeled
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450°.
- Cut sweet potatoes in half lengthwise and then cut each half into 3 wedges.
- Place on sheet pan and drizzle with olive oil, toss to coat. Make sure sweet potatoes are in a single layer on the sheet pan.
- In a small bowl mix the brown sugar, salt, and pepper; sprinkle on the sweet potatoes.
- Bake for 15 minutes and then turn, bake for an additional 5-10 minutes until browned.
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haven’t made them yet. question. are the sweet potatoes uncooked before making the fries?
Yes, you start with whole raw sweet potatoes.
Soo good! My go to recipe from now on! Thanks!!!!
Thank you! We are glad you like these.
this is such the winner way to eat sweet potatoes,, good suggestion with port loin roast..
Thank you!
Great recipe! Always need a new way to prepare sweet pots during this time of year!
Can’t just make with marshmallows on top, right? Thanks!
Yum! We like ’em crispy and dark too!
Right?! Less oil next time should do it.
Simple quick and delicious…I probably would have to double the portion :-))
I could definitely eat two portions ;-).