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Sweet potato fries with wilted spinach and yogurt-mint sauce. Sounds like a restaurant dish, doesn’t it? But you can whip up this perfect spring side dish in your kitchen in under thirty minutes. The secret is frozen Alexia Sweet Potato Fries.

I have been buying Alexia Fries for years. When Zuzu was younger and had so many food allergies, it was often a struggle to find safe foods for her to eat. That was when I discovered Alexia Fries. I loved that they were gluten-free and contained no trans fats. I also loved that I could keep Alexia Fries in the freezer and have them ready in just twenty minutes. They were a healthy and convenient dinner option.

Fast forward to today and I am still buying Alexia Fries and many of their other products too. Now that my children are older and their palates are more sophisticated — okay, Zuzu’s palate is sophisticated at least — we enjoy a wide variety of Alexia’s frozen foods, from the Onion Rings to the Sweet Potato Fries and even the Spicy Sweet Potatoes Fries. All of these products are made with natural ingredients and can be on the table in under a half-hour. They are the perfect easy side dish for burgers, steak, and many other family favorites.

Alexia Sweet Potato Fries are so much more than a basic French fry because sweet potatoes are more than just a starch. They are packed with nutrition, including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and potassium and are a good source of dietary fiber. Don’t overlook Sweet Potato Fries as an option for an after-school snack. Seriously! Again, these can be ready in twenty minutes. And kids love the sweet taste especially when paired with a dipping sauce.

As a side dish, Alexia Sweet Potato Fries are truly a blank canvas on which to express your creativity. Don’t just serve them plain with a side of ketchup. I mean, you could do that and your kids will probably be delighted. But you will be missing out on how Alexia Sweet Potato Fries can be the base for an inspired vegetable side dish.

So many global cuisines make use of the sweet potato and indeed they pair well with many different flavors. This dish, with its spicy wilted spinach and minty yogurt sauce, was inspired by South Asian cuisine. But you could also incorporate Middle Eastern or Latin flavors when topping your sweet potato fries.

I hardly need to explain that this dish is a nutritional powerhouse. Sweet potatoes, spinach and yogurt are all super foods. This flavorful and stunning combination would make an amazing side dish for lamb burgers and the extra mint yogurt sauce would serve as a perfect condiment for the burgers as well. Doesn’t that sounds like a perfect spring dinner?

But I have to tell you: this dish also makes a pretty amazing vegetarian main course. I made this recipe at 11:30 am and then sat down and ate half of it for lunch. It felt like a perfectly complete meal to me. No meat needed! The fiber in the sweet potatoes and the protein from the yogurt kept me satisfied all afternoon.

All of the ingredients in the recipe should be things you have in your pantry and refrigerator, with the possible exception of the mint. (Perhaps, in the summer, you can just pick some from your herb garden!) I used fresh spinach but thawed and drained frozen spinach would work as well. If you do not have the whole dried chiles that I call for, substitute red pepper flakes instead. And you will be able to find Alexia Sweet Potato Fries, Onion Rings and Spicy Sweet Potato Fries in the freezer section of your local Walmart where frozen fries are located.

So, I hope that you will try my Sweet Potato Fries with Spinach and Mint Yogurt Sauce. I promise you a healthy, delicious and unusual side dish in the time it takes for the fries to cook in the oven. But even more so, I hope that you will come up with your own take on this healthy and versatile ingredient. Let me know if you do!