A favourite for most people is fries or chips. For diabetics this is not the best food choice. Here is your replacement.
These are guilt-free fries, You can enjoy these as a snack, or as an addition to your meal.
Being made of sweet potato, they are low GI, which means they take longer to digest, therefore keep you full for longer and don’t turn into sugar so quickly once you eat them. These are fries that diabetics can enjoy.
They are not deep fried, therefore not soaked up with oil. Yet they retain quite nice flavour that you will enjoy any time.
Ingredients:
1 Large sweet potatoes
2 Tbs of cold pressed virgin olive oil
1 Tbs of Himalayan salt
Cracked pepper to taste.
Method:
- Peel the potatoes and rinse.
- Cut into 1cm thick strips and place in a bowl.
- Add remaining ingredients and toss well, to achieve an even distribution of all ingredients throughout all the slices of potato.
- Spread out as a single layer on some baking paper, which has been placed on a baking tray.
- Place in an oven that has been warmed up to 170 degrees, and bake for approximately 30 minutes, or until the thickest part of the fry is soft. Ideally, the edges should be a little golden brown, and crunchy.
- Place on a plate and enjoy.
Depending on the size of the potato, this recipe will serve 2-4.