Curly Sweet Potato Fries with Garlic Aioli (2024)

Curly sweet potato fries are easily made with a spiralizer. They’re seasoned with paprika and garlic powder and baked in the oven until perfectly crispy. Spiralized sweet potato fries make for the perfect healthy snack recipe.

Curly Sweet Potato Fries

You guys know I love to make zucchini noodlesand I usually use my Padernospiralizer. But KitchenAid recently sent me their spiralizer attachment (perfect if you own a stand mixer), so I thought I’d give it a whirl and whip up some curly sweet potato fries.

Curly sweet potato fries or spiralized sweet potato fries (however you want to call them) are a quick and easy snack. Curly fries might remind you of greasy fast food muchies, but I can assure youthat these are not those. These curly sweet potato fries are baked rather than fried and sprinkled with a generous amount of savory spices, such as paprika and garlic powder.

Baked Versus Fried Curly Fries

I’ll be the first to say that baked fries don’t come out quite as crispy as deep fried fries. Some parts get a little crispy, but after they come out of the oven they do soften quickly, similar to my sweet potato toast. It’s just how baked sweet potato recipes are because sweet potato has quite a bit of moisture.

But there’s so much flavor in these bad boys that I don’t think you’ll feel deprived. Especially given all the nutrients loaded into sweet potatoes, such as vitamin A, B6, C and D.

Even more, I’ve paired them with a garlic aioli that takes all of two minutes to make but will have you dunking these sweet potato fries until your hands are slathered and messy in that homemade mayo, garlicky goodness. Trust me, you’ll be okay with the fact that they’re not as crispy.

Tips for Spiralized Sweet Potato Fries

Here’s a few tips to make these spiralized sweet potato friesas crispy as possible.

• When you place them on the sheet pan, make sure they’re all on a single layer. If you have too many, use two sheet pans.
• If you have too many long pieces, use kitchen scissors to snip them into smaller pieces, giving them more space.
• If you have a convection oven, use that. Convection ovens constantly circulate the air and that air flow helps to keep these curly fries crispy.
• You could also try baking them on a cake cooling rack, placed on top of the sheet pan, just to allow more air to circulate around them as well.

For this batch, I defaulted to a regular sheet pan. But then again, I’m not fussy. I just love the flavor of curly sweet potato fries and the faster I could get them in my mouth, the better!

For More Sweet Potato Recipes

• Warm Sweet Potato Noodles, Cabbage and Lentil Salad
• Spiralized Sweet Potato Egg Nests
• Baked Sweet Potato
• BBQ Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potato
• Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Sage Walnut Pesto