Loaded Vegan Sweet Potato Fries

No guilty feelings with these Loaded Vegan Sweet Potato Fries; not only are they low fat, but they are also vegan, vegetarian, diabetic-friendly and gluten-free.

But best of all, these dirty sweet potato fries are, of course, absolutely delicious!

Love sweet potatoes? We also have a recipe for air fryer jacket sweet potatoes you will enjoy!

Equipment

Here is what you will need to make this vegan dirty sweet potato fries recipe

Ingredients

Let's explain more about the ingredients needed for this recipe.

What is Textured Vegetable Protein?

Textured vegetable protein is a great meat substitute for vegans and vegetarians alike. Also known as TVP or soy meat.

We used chunks for this recipe but TVP mince would also work well.

With virtually no fat, it absorbs flavours well during cooking. We highly recommend buying Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP) from Buy Wholefoods Online fantastic quality and amazingly low prices.

The first step is to soak your TVP, we use Vegetable stock to rehydrate it, leave it to soak whilst you cut your Sweet Potato Fries

How to cook Sweet Potato Fries?

Peel Sweet Potatoes and cut into even-sized fries. The thinner you chop them the quicker they cook!

Air Fryer Method

We find the best results for cooking Sweet Potato Fries is using an air fryer. We have a whole blog post about how to cook the best air fryer sweet potato fries, including more seasoning ideas.

In that recipe we have parboiled the fries and used cornstarch to create a nice crunch.

But for this recipe, we have kept it a bit simpler: spray with spray oil and cook in an air fryer at 200°C / 400°F for 20-30 minutes.

Oven Method

Alternatively, use an oven, and preheat to 200°C fan/ 220°C/ 425°F /Gas Mark 7.

Place parchment paper on a baking tray and put the chopped fries on in an even layer, not touching each other, so they cook evenly.

Spray with Frylight and sprinkle with garlic salt. Cook in the oven for 30 -40 minutes, turning halfway through for even cooking.

Making the BBQ Textured Protein Chunks ready to add to Loaded Vegan Sweet Potato Fries

Add Shallots and red pepper into a pan, fry for about 5 minutes before adding the textured vegetable protein in, with some black pepper.

Add 100ml of BBQ Sauce into the pan and warm through. Set aside until the sweet potato fries are ready.

Skinny Sauces

We called in the help of Skinny Sauces Smokey BBQ sauce, a fantastic product with a delicious smokey flavour. Perfect for anyone, including people following a low-fat/low carb/low-calorie diet and a Vegan or Vegetarian diet.

Loaded Vegan Sweet Potato Fries assembly!

Now serve up the fries and place the BBQ Textured Vegetable Protein on top.

Sprinkle over some spring onions and jalapenos if you like a bit of spice! We served it up to share!

But you can serve a portion each, which makes two generous portions!

Delicious, you wouldn't believe it was low fat, low sugar, and low carb, yet still full of protein! Tastes amazing!

Why not add a sprinkle of vegan parmesan if you are feeling naughty?

Alternative ingredients?

You can use normal BBQ sauce if you are not following a diet.

If you are not a Vegan/Vegetarian, feel free to use cooked chicken or steak instead of Textured Vegetable Protein.

📖 Step by Step Recipe

We updated this post on 26/01/2024 to include our air fry method. The actifryer method is still included below.

Sweet Potato Fries - Actifry method;

So quick and easy to use, pop the chopped fries into the acti-fryer spray with Frylight and salt (we used garlic salt).

Cook for 20-30 minutes (depending on thickness). Easy Peasy!

Vegan Recipes

I hope you enjoyed this Loaded Vegan Sweet Potato Fries recipe; why not check out our other Vegan Recipes.

Like this Sundried Tomato and Roasted Pepper Pasta or another textured protein recipe we created is our vegan kung pao.

Low Fat Recipes

If following a slimming world or low-fat diet check out our curried mince hotpot, turkey and rice aubergines or air fryer chips.