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African Yam Fries
Yєlє Ni Ashi
- Difficulty
Easy
By Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta
Published 2015
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
- 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.)
- 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
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