Sweet Potato Cue. Kamote Cue is refers to skewered deep fried sweet potatoes with a coating of caramelized brown sugar. This is a common meryenda (mid-afternoon snack) in the Philippines and can mostly be seen peddled around the busy streets. Camote is the Filipino word for sweet potato and cue, or barbecue, refers to their barbecued meat which is also sold on skewers.

The sweet potato is a cousin of the decorative ipomeae which decorate the balconies with their large blue flowers. Camote cue (alternate spellings kamote cue or camote que) is a Filipino snack made from sliced sweet potatoes, fried and coated in caramelized brown sugar, then skewered into thin bamboo sticks. If you've been to Philippines, this is one of the many popular street foods sold all over the country. You can cook Sweet Potato Cue using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sweet Potato Cue

Prepare 1 lb of Sweet Potato; sliced crosswise about 1.5cm thick (Asian sweet potato is preffered)..
You need 1 cup of Brown Sugar.
It's 1 cup of Cooking Oil.

Heat the oil in a large frying pan and add the sweet potato "camote" one at a time. Immediately sprinkle brown sugar evenly on each sweet potato slices. When the sugar starts to caramelized and form a glaze, stir to coat all camote slices. Wash and cube the sweet potato, leaving the skin on and add to a large bowl.

Sweet Potato Cue step by step

Heat the pan and pour the cooking oil..
Let the cooking oil heat-up then put-in the brown sugar..
When the brown sugar floats, put-in the sweet potato and fry for 7 to 10 minutes. Flip the sweet potato once in a while to allow sugar to stick..
Remove the sweet potato from the pan one after the other. You could directly skewer the fried sweet potatoes once removed from the pan..
Let it cool down for a few minutes then serve, share and enjoy..

Combine the coconut oil and spices before mixing with the sweet potato. Once the potato is nicely covered in the oil and spices lay out on a baking tray and sprinkle with salt. Sweet potatoes are a great way to get lots of nutrients into your diet. Yes, we've got a load more sweet potato recipes outside of baking them! Sweet potatoes are perfect in soups and stews, fries, hash browns, and more.