Baked sweet yams with a spicy chipotle sauce for dipping. Perfect as a side or snack.
3 large yams or sweet potatoes
2 tsp olive oil
Seasoning salt to taste
Wash and peel yams. Cut into sticks like fries. Mix with olive oil and seasoning salt until coated. Spread onto a greased baking sheet and bake at 425F for 20-25 minutes, turning them halfway through baking time. Serve with chipotle dip (below).
Chipotle Dip
1/3 cup light mayonnaise
1/4 tsp Mrs. Dash Southwest Chipotle spice blend
Combine ingredients in a small bowl and serve with fries.
This tastes pretty close to the kind you get in restaurants, or I thought so anyway. I really love yams and sweet potatoes so this recipe is a real treat for me. I made it twice in one week. Unfortunately my boys don’t like yams, so they weren’t to interested in these fries. I thought I could entice Cole because he likes dipping things so much, but no go. Oh well, more for me! Tony liked them a lot too though so I had to share (darn it!). The Mrs Dash seasoning was something I bought for a recipe one time (I don’t even remember what it was) and I wasn’t sure I’d ever use it again but it turned out to be quite good in lots of things. It’s especially good in guacamole or in taco seasoning.
My kids like to whine, especially when it comes to the food they eat, but that doesn’t stop me from trying to make tasty and healthy meals for them. Follow along as I share family-friendly recipes and reviews from my picky family members, who I lovingly call “The Whine Critics.” 
