This is one of those recipes which is so basic yet so dynamite! And furthermore earns a lot of brownie points with both adults and children. I love making these for appetizers for our family and also for guests. Nobody knows how crazy easy they are. Well, until now. Looks like the secret’s out!
Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Fries {Paleo, AIP}
This is one of those recipes which is so basic yet so dynamite! And furthermore earns a lot of brownie points with both adults and children. I love making these for appetizers for our family and also for guests. Nobody knows how crazy easy they are. Well, until now. Looks like the secret’s out!
Fast forward to 2017….
I am laughing at this so hard. This was one of my very early blog posts in 2013! I was such a spring chicken “blogger” and recipe writer back then and I just giggle at the journey this has taken me on. And it’s such a reminder of how eating healthy really is a step by step path. There are so many mountains to climb and ditches to fall in and even here, 4 years later, I still face the same challenges.
Do I eat the cheese that I’m craving? Am I eating too many treats? Am I the only one not eating low carb or keto?
Ultimately, your path is your path. You have to find what works for you, your wiggle room and your “absolutely nots”. I love being able to look back here though and see that through it all, Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Fries {Paleo, AIP} are still really freakin’ good and make everyone happy.
Ingredients:
- 1 pack nitrate free pasture raised bacon (organic when possible)
- 1 large sweet potato
- Freshly ground garlic sea salt to taste
- Preheat oven to 425
- Slice sweet potato about 1/2 inch thick
- Slice bacon in half lengthwise, then half again widthwise
- Wrap each sweet potato slice with a strip of bacon and arrange on baking sheet
- Sprinkle with garlic salt
- Cook for 15 minutes then flip fries to brown the underneath for another 15 minutes (more or less)
- Enjoy alone or with my homemade ranch dressing
Ohmigod, I made these tonight! As someone who loves bacon and eats a lot of sweet potatoes, I had high hopes for these, and I was still surprised at how amazing they are! I nommed them right up!
I do have a question, however. When I turned them over at the halfway time, the bacon fell right off some of them. They weren’t sticking to the pan; the bacon just fell off when I turned them over. Is there a trick to wrapping or turning them, or are those just the bonus payment for the cook?
I wrap them really tight and place the ends face down on the baking sheet, that way they have a chance to “seal” as they bake before flipping them over. Think that would help you?