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The Secret Ingredient You Need To Make Sweet Potato Fries Crispier
By S. Ferrari
If you yearn for sweet potato fries that are perfectly crisp with a craveable texture, start adding bubbly soda water to your recipe.
A coating of seltzer, in combination with cornstarch, will create air bubbles that get trapped in the batter and make for a light and airy crust.
It's important to use a fresh, previously unopened bottle of seltzer straight from the refrigerator when it's still as fizzy and cold as possible.
When the sweet spuds are coated in cornstarch and seltzer and submerged in hot oil, the carbonation bubbles up vigorously to create an airy coating.
This coating won't become weighed down even after the fries are removed from the oil, and the acidity in the carbonation also decreases the formation of gluten in the batter.