Egg Coated Nigerian Sweet Potato Fries (Potafritas)


Egg Coated Nigerian Sweet Potato Fries (Potafritas), Nigerian Sweet Potato Fries ,Nigerian Sweet Potatoes

Nigerian Sweet potatoes are like no other. I discovered that after an interesting experiment.
When I moved to Spain, I searched for sweet potatoes and was excited to find a few at the local store.
They had the purple-brownish tone of the African sweet potatoes, but when I got home and cut through one of them, I was suprised that it was yellowish-orange inside, a big contrast to the white color I was used to, back home in Nigeria.
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