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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
This is a recipe for everyone who loves fries but can’t seem to get them crispy at home. With an air fryer, a sprinkle of cornstarch, and a few minutes of your time, you can have perfect sweet potato fries!
If you’re not the biggest fan of sweet potato fries, try these Air Fryer French Fries or Air Fryer Potato Wedges. Try making some of these for your next dinner, with some Homemade Burgers or an Air Fryer Steak!
Reader Review
I loved this recipe so much I had to try it on the massive amount of carrot sticks I canned last year. The results were yummy! Thanks for this recipe!
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is a very easy recipe.
- Total Time: Making these sweet potato fries will take about 20 minutes from start to finish.
- Variations: You can try this same process with a different variety of potato, like russet, or a different root vegetable like carrots (as a reviewer suggested). Hard types of squash like acorn squash or butternut squash would also probably work well made with this process. Use your favourite seasoning for these fries or try something new with Cajun Seasoning Recipe.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a very sharp knife or a French fry cutter, a cutting board, some parchment paper, paper towel, an air fryer, some tongs, a medium bowl, and a large bowl.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Sweet Potatoes: This recipe calls for sweet potatoes but can be used with other yams, squashes, or hard root vegetables. Depending on the exact size of your potato pieces you may need to adjust your cooking time, so just keep an eye on that air fryer.
Cornstarch: This simple ingredient does so much to help foods stay crispy when they’re being fried! That little dusting helps to soak up the moisture that steams out of the fries, and gives a little bit of a crunchy coating.
Seasonings: The basic flavours here are salt and pepper. Seasoning salt, if you prefer. But that’s only the beginning! You can add just about any spice you like to these fries.
How To Make Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Slice the sweet potatoes into evenly sized fries. Put the pieces in a large bowl of icy water to soak for 15 minutes.
- Line a basket or plate with parchment paper and set aside. Lay out paper towel on a flat surface.
- Set (preheat if needed) air fryer to 375°F.
- Drain potato sticks and lay them on the paper towel. Pat dry.
- In a medium bowl, toss potato sticks with the olive oil. In the same bowl or a different medium bowl, sprinkle the fries with cornstarch and seasonings, and toss until fully coated.
- Spread fries evenly in air fryer basket. Cook for 10-15 minutes.
- Take out fries and out them in the parchment-lined dish.
- Enjoy!
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries
Paper: Don’t skimp on the parchment paper step of this recipe. Laying out the cooked fries on parchment paper will help to keep them crispy by absorbing excess moisture and grease. If you haven’t got parchment paper, you can try using a brown paper bag butcher paper, or even some sheets of regular white paper. Paper towel would also work for this.
How to Serve These: Sweet potato fries tend to be delicious on their own, but they also pair beautifully with dip. Try making some Homemade Ranch Dressing or mixing some Cajun Seasoning with mayo for tasty dipping options. Remember to serve these fries hot and crisp. You can always pop them back into the air fryer for a minute or two if they get cold or soggy.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: These will be best fresh, but you can store them in a sealed container in the fridge for 3-4 days. Keep a piece of paper towel or parchment paper in the container to absorb moisture. Reheat in the air fryer or oven to get them nice and crispy again.
Freezer: If you’d like to freeze these to reheat later, try spreading them out on a baking sheet and freezing them that way first until they’re solid. Then, toss them into a freezer safe bag or container. You can freeze them for a few months. Take them out and reheat in the air fryer or oven when ever you want.
More Delicious Air Fryer Recipes
Looking for more fun and easy ways to use your air fryer?
Why not whip up some Air Fryer Hamburgers to go with your fries?
Try some Air Fryer Grilled Cheese Sandwiches for a quick lunch.
Air Fryer Corn Dogs are a great snack for parties.
There you go, a nearly-foolproof way to get crispy sweet potato fries right at home. Try out this recipe and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 medium sweet potatoes washed and peeled
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons corn starch
- seasoning salt, or salt and pepper, if preferred
Instructions
- Using a knife or a French fry slicer, slice the sweet potatoes into evenly sized potatoes stick for fries. It works the best when they are all close in size to each other.
- Line a basket or plate with parchment paper.
- Place the sweet potato sticks into a bowl of cold water and completely cover with water. Soak in the water for 15 minutes.
- If needed, preheat your air fryer to 375° (not all models require preheating)
- Drain the potato sticks and lay out on paper towels. Blot them dry with more paper towels.
- Place in a medium-sized bowl and toss with olive oil.
- In a medium-sized bowl, toss in corn starch and seasoning salt until thoroughly coated.
- Place the fries in the bottom of your air fryer basket in one even layer.
- Cook for 10-15 minutes at 375° until the fries are crispy and golden brown – start checking at the 10-minute mark then watch them closely until they are cooked to your preference.
- Remove and shake the fries into the parchment lined dish. (parchment helps keep them crispy, nothing absorbs the oil or makes the fries soggy like paper towels do)
- Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Deborah says
I loved this recipe so much I had to try it on the massive amount of carrot sticks I canned last year. The results were yummy! Thanks for this recipe!