Raw Sweet Potato “Fries” with Chipotle Mayo
Eating a raw food diet doesn’t mean giving up some of your favorite foods. I used to love to order sweet potato fries with chipotle mayo. But my body did not love eating them! I felt heavy, bloated and like I had been sedated! The deep frying plus all the saturated fat in the mayo completely obliterated any healthy benefits that the sweet potatoes were offering. The potatoes offered in this raw food recipe are a little more chewy than crispy but great! And the “mayo” is even better than the original unhealthy version!
Sweet Potatoes are a nutritional power house. High in vitamin A and vitamin c, they are also loaded with fiber. They are excellent immunity builders and also help balance blood sugars. Adding these wonderful tubers to your diet provide a great healthy way to snack.
Raw Sweet Potato Fries with Chipotle Mayo
Sweet Potato Fries
- 3 large sweet potatoes
- 1/2 cup nama shoyu
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- Slice sweet potatoes into fry shapes. These will dehydrate down quite a bit so I usually start with about 1/3 x 1/3.
- Mix together Nama Shoyu and olive oil. Pour into a large zip lock bag and add sweet potatoes. (you can also use any type container, just make sure that the potato slices are covered).
- Marinate over night.
- Drain, place on dehydrator screens, sprinkle with sea salt and dehydrate at 145 for 1/2 hour.
- Reduce temp to 115 and dehydrate until desired dryness is achieved. You will want to check them after about 4 hours. Some people like them very dry, I tend to like them less dehydrated.
Chipotle “Mayo”
- 1 cup pine nuts (soaked)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 lemon, juice from
- 1/2 to 1 clove garlic
- 1/4 cup filtered water
- 1/2 cup young coconut flesh
- 3 teaspoons chipotle seasoning
- Place all ingredients in Vitamix and blend until very smooth.
matt wrote on November 25, 2009
isn’t a chipotle just a smoked jalepeno?? Meaning they are not really raw?
Mabye I am nitpicking but that might make a raw purist angry if you served this to them.
Susan wrote on November 25, 2009
You are correct. You might want to read this blog post for my opinion on that. How Raw Do You Need To Be
Bill in Detroit wrote on November 21, 2009
@ Michal — no need for fancy equipment if you have an oven and are willing to experiment a bit.
The ‘mayo’ recipe looks to be worth trying.
Kate wrote on November 4, 2009
Great. Thanks for the info! (And that makes way more sense!)
One more question, if you don’t mind. How long do you think the dip would keep in the fridge? Thanks!
Kate wrote on November 1, 2009
I gave these a try. Whole Foods had two bins one with sweet potatoes and one with yams. The yam looked more like what you used but I got the other kind – tan peel and yellowish-tan flesh. I can never remember which is which so I trusted their labels. I Googled it and it sounds like true yams are mostly available in Asian markets & everything else are sweet potato varieties. The dehydrating wasn’t working very well (okay, I got impatient) so I took them out of the oven and baked them for a bit – one or the other method would probably have been fine but together? I got rocks!
What was edible was good, though, and I’ll probably give it another shot with the orange variety of sweet potato.
My questions is what are you using that you call “chipotle seasoning”. Three teaspoons of what I used (basically a ground up chipotle) would have killed me. Seriously. I chopped it up and at the last minute only used maybe 1/16 teaspoon and it was hot! (And I’m from New Mexico!)
Susan wrote on November 6, 2009
The dip will keep for a couple of days but just use common sense with it….
Susan wrote on November 1, 2009
The seasoning I use is a Chipolte seasoning, not just chipotle peppers. The one I like is from Urban Accents. It is a combination of things.
Nadia wrote on September 20, 2009
This looks great, but what is Nami shoyu?
Susan wrote on September 20, 2009
It is raw, organic soy sauce. You can usually find it in your coop or try google.
Susan
Toni G. wrote on September 15, 2009
I am so making these! I’ve missed them since going raw! Thanks for the post!!!