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Cactus Club Yam Fries & Garlic Aioli Sauce (taken from old post by Shred_Head)

You can make yam fries without using a fryer!

There's just one thing you've gotta do that's prob a bit different.. it's actually called "Oven Fry"

Preheat oven to 350 Degrees
But, when you preheat, throw in the baking pan (preferrably with a lip so oil doesn't drip over) and throw it in there while you're preheating, so that it's the same temp as your oven.

Hopefully your oven's calibrated accurately, if not, worse comes to worse, preheat at 360 - give or take.

Cut yams into fry sized pieces, toss with a little bit of oil, (hopefully you can make a 50/50 ratio of olive and canola oil**).

Take baking pan out of oven, pour about 25mL of oil onto the pan, wearing an oven mitt of course, move the oil around the pan so it coats it evenly.

Cook for about 4-5 minutes, toss around the fries so that you can have an uncooked side on the pan side, so that it crisps up evenly, or else you'll have half burnt-soggy yam fries.

Take out after about 8-12 minutes - season with paprika, ground pepper, cayenne, or cajun spices - no salt needed!

** you want a 50/50 ratio of the oil, because if you only use olive oil, it's smoking point is a lot lower than vegetable oil's, and you'd have to use a lower heat in the oven if you were to only use olive oil.

If you want to make the garlic dip, it's SO EASY.

8 cloves of garlic
olive oil
salt+cracked pepper
lemon juice
mayo

while you're preheating the oven at 350, place garlic into a tin-foil pouch, add a touch of olive oil, salt and pepper. close the pouch.

Let the garlic roast for about 15-20 minutes, or until soft.

Take out, let cool. In a mortar, grind garlic with a pestle. If you don't have that, just a cutting board and a knife.
Minced the garlic up finely, over and over again till it's a paste.

In a separate bowl, add a huge dallop of mayo, enough for your fries. add the garlic, and about 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. mix around. and season with s&p to taste.

There's your garlic aoli (from cactus)