spicy baked sweet potato fries

I've been in sweet potato-mode lately. Not sure why that is but I want everything sweet potato. The other night I made chili-stuffed peppers with these sweet potato fries as a side. I won't list the preparation of the chili & peppers because I cheated and used canned chili. But I basically followed the same instructions as from my beef-stuffed peppers recipe. I just cooked the canned chili on the stove and added a whole chopped shallot plus some chili powder and cheddar cheese. Anyhoo, on to the fries. The original recipe I found called for 6 potatoes. So I cut it down to three and cut down all the ingredients by half as well.

3 sweet potatoes, cut into french fries
1 tbsp canola oil
1 tbsp + 1 1/2 tsp taco seasoning
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper

I began by peeling the potatoes and slicing them into french fry slices.

So I had a pretty big pile of fries going on. Next I put the canola oil, taco seasoning & cayenne pepper in a bag and added the fries, shaking until the fries were evenly coated. Time to preheat the oven to 425°

Next I lined a baking pan with parchment paper and lined all the fries on the pan single layered (as well as I could at least).

I put the fries and my peppers in the oven and baked them. The fries bake for 30 minutes and then are removed and flipped and baked for another 30 minutes. So a total of 1 hour fry bake time.

my chili-stuffed peppers

An hour later - out they come!

The fries were pretty spicy. I think they turned out fantastic. They went real well dipped in the chili & cheese. I also suspect they would be amazing with some salsa, sour cream or ranch dressing. This one was super easy and super delicious. Yum yum yum!