Fran Osseo-Asare, Barbara Baëta

African Yam Fries

Yєlє Ni Ashi

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000The Ghana Cookbook
The Ghana Cookbook

By Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta

Published 2015

  • About

Ironically, these days in restaurants in Accra it often seems easier to buy “potato chips”—what are known as “French fries” in the U.S.—than it is to get freshly made, superb, and tasty indigenous African yam fries. Warning: If making these for a Ghanaian male away from home he might become your friend for life.

Ingredients

  • Fresh African yams*
  • Vegetable oil for frying

Method

Directions

  1. Peel and cut the yams as for French fries (as thick or thin as desired), and sprinkle them with salt. (One 1970 Ghanaian cookbook advises cutting the yam into pieces 1-inch square and ½-inch thick.)
  2. Fill a deep fryer or cooking pot with enough vegetable oil to cover the yam pieces and heat to about 360 to 375 degrees F. Do not fill the pot