Baked Sweet potato "fries" with chipotle dressing.

This is my favorite comfort food. Sweet potatoes are full of vitamins and nutrients, plus they can be savory or sweet.

The plus with this "fake fries"  is that they are healthier than the fried version, obviuosly, because of the lack of grease on them thanks to the different cooking process. I had tried to bake fake fries again and again and they always turned out soggy. Either I cut them to thin or I covered them with to much oil. Well after a lot of trial and error, this came all right. They didn't bend, they were not greasy or soggy and  the skin (which I like, but is optional) turned out salty and crunchy. Perfect! In addition,  considering that a medium sweet potato baked skin-in has more less 100 cal. and adding the small amount of oil required for the dish, I don't feel that guilty after finishing all by myself with the whole plate!

Ingredients:

Sweet Potatoes ( depending on how many people you are serving, I think that a big one per two persons is a good ratio, except if you are baking them for me, in that case is a whole one just for me.)

olive oil just 1 tbsp.

salt and pepper

paprika a dash

cookie sheet

parchment paper or silpat.

Mayonaise

chipotle (to taste)

Cilantro

salt and pepper

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400F. Oven the temp. is reached  insert the cookie sheet with the silpat or parchment paper into the oven and wait for 1o min.. It helps a lot to the consistency of the fake fries if the cookie sheet is super hot.

 I did not peel the sweet potato because I like the taste and nutritional properties of the skin, but you can do it if you want.

Cut 1/4 inch thick slices,  and toss them with a dash of salt, pepper, paprika, and just a tbsp of olive oil. I f you put to much the fries will get soggy, put in there just a little amount , toss everything  so as every slice is covered in spices and oil.

Take out from the oven the cookie sheet and spread  the slices on it, they CAN NOT TOUCH each other. If you are making a lot of this, the best thing is to work with two cookie sheets or batches.

Put the "fries" inside the oven for 15 min. After this time, take them out and carefully turn them over. Get them inside again, for another 15 min. Keep watching them, they will start changing color, and you don't want them to burn. Remember every oven is different.

After this time they should be a wonderful orange color and soft in the inside and dry on the outside, the slices with skin should be nice and crunchy.

For the dressing, mix in a blender the mayo,cilantro,  the chipotle, salt and pepper, and done!!

Hope you like them.