This is a recipe for air fryer sweet potato fries that I ideated and cooked about an hour ago and found pleasant enough to write about.

Despite not being closely related to russets you can do anything to sweet potatoes that you'd do to russets. This is up to and including mashing or frying them. Sweet potatoes are also not closely related to yams either, just so you know.

• 2 sweet potatoes (or enough that fit in your air fryer loosely)
• Olive oil
• Smoked paprika
• Cumin
• Garlic powder
• Salt (to taste)

Cut the potatoes into 1/4″ slices lengthwise along the vegetable after rounding off the ends. A sharp knife helps as sweet potatoes are tough to cut when somewhat fresh. Toss the slices in a mixing bowl with olive oil, smoked paprika, cumin, garlic powder and a generous amount of salt.

For ~250g of sweet potatoes (~2 potatoes) cook these in an air fryer on 375℉ for 20 minutes, turning after about 10. This could be done in an oven too as the only difference between an oven and an air fryer is the flow of air through the oven. If you have a convection oven there is no difference, this is simply a large air fryer.

Before removing check for doneness and add time if needed. When done, remove from the oven, taste for seasoning and add more salt as you like.

The fries should come out crispy on the outside, somewhat visibly blackened, and fully cooked on the inside. They are not crispy throughout like fries done in a deep fryer but they are quite good themselves. Eat them like regular fries, so with mayonnaise, hot sauce, ketchup or some homemade dipping whatever. I used hot sauce because that's what I immediately had on hand but something cooler and creamy would've hit the spot.