Homemade Sweet Potato chips are crispy and crunchy and so easy to make. All you need is a good slicer to make thin slices of sweet potato. Unlike potato chips, sweet potato chips have a little sweetness along with a savory taste that makes these chips tasty. These chips are not only salty, sweet, crunchy, and spicy, but also very crisp and a great evening time snack along with hot tea/coffee. I share two types of sweet potato wafers.ย Do try this and enjoy it with your friends and family members.
I will share a few no-fail tips that helps you to make perfect crispy sweet potato chips on the first attempt.
Recipe Video
Sweet potato wafer | sweet potato French fries | how to make crispy wafer
Ingredients
- 1 kg sweet potatoes
- Oil for deep frying
- Salt
- Red chilli powder
Instructions
- Wash and peel the sweet potatoes.
For sweet potato wafer
- Heat oil in a pan, hold the wafer slicer above it and make thinly slice chips into the oil.
- In a bowl, add salt and water. mix well and add salted water to hot oil.
- Fry the wafer on medium heat, till it is slightly crispy.
- Remove fried chips from the sieve.
- Serve or store sweet potato chips in an airtight container.
For sweet potato French fries
- Make a two-part of sweet potato. Now make 1 cm thick slices or to the size required.
- Wash slices with cold water. this helps to get rid of excess starch from sweet potato and makes fries crispy.
- Dry fries with kitchen towel.
- Deep fry directly in medium hot oil till it softens and cooks the sweet potatoes through.
- Cool the fried potatoes completely.
- In the second fry, fry on high flame till sweet potatoes turn brown and crispy.
- Drain the fries into wire racks once they are golden brown.
- Sprinkle salt, red chilli powder or spices of your choice on French fries.
- Serve hot with tomato ketchup.
Notes
- keep peeled sweet potatoes in water, so they will not turn black.
- salted water absorbs moisture from sweet potato wafers and makes them crisp.
- fry wafers on medium flame.
- For French fries, wash fries with cold water to remove starch from them.