Cajun Sweet Potato Fries

Out of the oven and ready to eat- they were really really good!

I can't believe I'm making Cajun Sweet Potato Fries. I saw this naturally gluten free recipe on the blog, Conners Cooking and it looked really good. I usually shy away from eating anything made with Cajun spices because I right away think, " hot! hot! hot!"

Wrong! I went to the grocery store and checked the ingredients on a Cajun seasoning mix. Cajun seasoning is made up of all spices that I like: paprika, black pepper, garlic powder, oregano, thyme, salt,and some have cayenne pepper too.

Since I had all of these ingredients that make up Cajun seasoning in my kitchen, I decided to make my own Cajun mixture with just a little tad of the hot hot hot cayenne.

My Cajun sweet potato fries came out great, I mean great! And I even liked the little touch of ground cayenne and that itty bitty kick. That's as Cajun as I want to get.

Make it for kids

If you are making this recipe for kids, just leave out the cajun spices and season with a little salt or nothing.

Who were the Cajuns anyway? According to Wikipedia,

"Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles (French-speakers from Acadia in what are now the Canadian Maritimes). Today, the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population, and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture.The Acadia region to which modern Cajuns trace their origin consisted largely of what are now Nova Scotia and the other Maritime provinces, plus parts of eastern Quebec and northern Maine."

The weather has finally cooled off so I din't mind turning on my oven. As I said, I would have never thought of trying Cajun, but I'm glad I did. the Cajun Fries were exceptional.

Ingredients:

Directions

Preheat oven to 425. Put cut up sweet potatoes in a large zip lock bag . Add 2 TBSP olive oil , shake in Cajun seasoning and cumin and shake the bag until sweet potatoes are lightly coated. Place on greased cookie sheet and bake for about 35-40 minutes ( depends on the size of your fries). Drizzle a little extra olive if you like before putting in the oven.

Take out and serve.

STEP BY STEP PICTORIAL

3 large yams or sweet potatoesPeeled Yams or Sweet PotatoesMy own homemade Cajun Spice Mix Cut up sweet potatoes in strips

Potatoes cut into strips coated with spices on the way to go into the oven

Out of the oven and ready to eat- they were really really good!

This recipe is a second recipe submission for the Secret Recipe Club this month. Unfortuantely when the first postings were revealed on Monday, one lone blogger, Conners Cooking was left out. Her assigned blogger never posted. So, to make up for her disappointment of being left out, lots of us SRC bloggers volunteered to make another recipe from her blog.

There were so many wonderful recipes on her blog, but I chose this one because it was fast and easy and only needed one ingredient, yams! Her version included a yogurt dipping sauce which you can check out on her blog.

I love participating in the Secret Recipe Club. Some of my favorites recipes have been as a result of checking out other member's blogs.

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