Healthy Pan-Fried Sweet Potato Dish

If you are tired of the same old sweet potatoes recipes you will love this delicious fried sweet potato dish. It’s easy to make, taste delicious and makes a great side dish or even main part of a meal!

This mix of crispy sweet potatoes and regular potatoes, with fried red onion and apple will make your taste buds happy!

I personally love this with a couple of fried runny eggs on top! So, if you want an easy and super versatile dish that can go with just about anything give this recipe a try!

What You Need To Make This Recipe

Ingredients

1. Sweet potatoes: You will need one medium sized peeled and cubed sweet Potatoe for this recipe.
2. Potatoes: You will need 2 medium size potatoes, peeled and cubed.
3. Apples: 1 apple peeled and cubed. I personally love using green apples as they are crunchy and delicious but any apples will do.
4. Red onion: 1/2 a red onion diced finely. They go sweet and taste amazing when cooked!
5. Sea salt: Salt helps to bring out the flavour.
6. Oil: I personally love to cook these in coconut oil, but you can use any high smoke point oil.

Supplies

There are only a few things you will need to make this, and you should already have everything you need at home.

1. Pan: I love using cast iron pans as they retain the heat well and are nonstick when used properly but any medium sized pan will do!
2. Knife: You will want and need a sharp knife for dicing your ingredients.
3. Spatula: For mixing, stirring and serving your fried sweet potato dish.

Tips For Success

1. Cube the potatoes: Try and cube your potatoes so they are somewhat even. I like to cube mine, so they are about 1 inch each. This will help with even cooking and having them smaller will allow them to cook faster all the way through.
2. Use a large enough preheated pan: You don’t want your ingredients to be too crowded. Make sure you pan is large enough to fit everything comfortably. This will help with the crispiness of your potatoes.
3. Have plenty of oil: Make sure there is enough oil to cover your vegetables, so you get nice crunchy potatoes instead of soggy ones.
4. Don’t cook everything at the same time: Make sure to cook the potatoes first and add the red onion and apple at the end. They don’t need nearly as long to cook as your potatoes and will turn into charcoal if you start them at the same time.

How To Make This Dish (Step By Step)

1. Get your oil heating up on medium heat in a saucepan while you dice your vegetables and apple.
2. Once the oil is hot add the diced sweet potatoes and diced potato to your pan.
3. Let them cook for about 5 minutes before mixing them around so they get crunchy on all sides and cook for a further 5ish minutes.
4. Once potatoes are starting to get crispy add the red onion and diced apples.
5. Cook for another 3 minutes or so until red onion is cooked, and potatoes look crispy.
6. Using a slotted spatula or metal spoon scoop out your fried food and place on a plate lined with paper towel.
7. Sprinkle with sea salt and allow the excess oil to drain for a few minutes and then serve.

How To Store

Once the sauteed sweet potato dish has completely cooled down you can store the extra in an airtight container. Place this in the fridge and it will keep for up to a week!

What To Serve With Fried Sweet Potatoes?

I love this dish because you can serve it in so many ways! Here are some ideas for you!

1. The most obvious is having it as a side dish to accompany your meat!
2. Serve it for breakfast topped with a couple runny eggs. It tastes so good!
3. Add cooked ground beef on top for a fun and delicious main meal.
4. Place some of your sauté sweet potato in a wrap along with boiled eggs, mince, chicken or sliced steak!
5. You can add this into a casserole dish.
6. Use it as a side with homemade chicken enchiladas!

Honestly so many delicious ways you can serve and enjoy this healthy and delicious fried sweet potato recipe!

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