SRC: Rosemary Sweet Potato Chips

It’s Secret Recipe Club time again! Again?!?

Yep, we get a twofer this month, as I step in to help group C (another blogger had a family emergency).

So, for double SRC month, I was assigned Kristy’s blog, She Eats.  Kristy loves using local, seasonally grown foods…and also bourbon.

Speaking of bourbon, I have had the first recipe, Bourbon Soaked Cherries, bookmarked for ages!  So I finally took the chance to make them, but I had to take quite a few liberties – frozen cherries (because February), vanilla simple syrup (because I had it in the fridge).  So I basically tossed those frozen cherries in a jar with about a shot of bourbon and 2 shots of vanilla syrup (the kind I used for iced coffee!) They’re fantastic, by the way, but since they were super simple and I switched things up, I decided to make another fantastic recipe!

Cue Rosemary Sweet Potato Chips!  Drool.  Seriously drooling!  They were AMAZING.  Oh, and a side note, yes those are sweet potatoes.  They’re apparently white sweet potatoes which A) I had to google and B) I had no idea that the rinky dink grocery store in my town would even have them.  Turns out white sweet potatoes are not quite as sweet as the orange variety, but equally delicious.

Anywho…the spice combination on these is absolutely to die for!  Hubs and Spud couldn’t keep their hands off of these (Dude was far more skeptical…and also sick, but mostly skeptical)

Also, the chips on the right look a bit different than the chips on the left.  That’s because I decided to bake some, like Kristy’s recipe (right) but also use the microwave chip maker that I’ve *ahem* barely used (left).  To be honest, Hubs & I both preferred the chips made in the microwave (plus they’re done in 5 minutes as opposed to 75 minutes), but use whichever method you prefer.

Thank you Kristy, for two great recipes!

Recipe Notes

*The easiest way to deal with dried rosemary is to place the leaves in a zipper bag and take out all your aggression on it with a meat tenderizer or hammer.

Rosemary Sweet Potato Chips

Slightly adapted from SheEats

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

2 cloves garlic, smashed

1 sweet potato, peeled

Freshly ground sea salt

Freshly ground pepper

1 tbsp dried rosemary, crushed or 2 tbsp fresh rosemary, minced

Place the oil and smashed garlic into a small bowl.  Microwave for 45 seconds to infuse the oil with garlic flavor.

Thinly slice the sweet potato with a mandolin slicer.

To bake:

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.  Line a baking sheet with parchment and brush with the infused olive oil. 

Arrange the sweet potato slices on the baking sheet (with a little space in between).  Brush the slices with more infused oil and season generously with salt, pepper, and rosemary.

Bake in the preheated oven for 30-40 minutes.  Then flip and bake for another 30 minutes or until deeply browned and crisp.

To Microwave:

Arrange sweet potato slices on a microwave chip maker.  Brush the slices with the infused olive oil and season generously with salt, pepper, and rosemary.

Microwave for 3 minutes and check.  Microwave for up to 2 additional minutes until the chips are deeply browned and crisp.