These simple-to-make colorful and chewy purple sweet potato pretzels have only four ingredients.
Headed into the oven! 
Sprinkled with “everything but the bagel” seasoning 
Perfect re-heat in the toaster oven.
I came across purple sweet potato powder and I wanted to see how it would work in a simple pretzel recipe. Why purple sweet potato? #1 because it’s colorful, and life is too short not to have fun healthy treats. At only 100 calories per pretzel it’s a good afternoon pick-me up snack.
Whether you make these savory or sweet, they are AMAZING hot out of the oven or re-heated in a toasted oven. My current go to is a sprinkle of everything but the bagel seasoning but I also love cinnamon & sugar.
Purple potato micronutrients
Purple sweet potato powder gives these pretzels an extra chewy interior texture with a light crisp on the outside. There’s also a very very subtle sweetness. A little bit goes a long way and I don’t recommend fully swapping out all of the regular flour for sweet potato powder.
Like most other naturally purple foods, purple sweet potatoes have their hue due to a class of natural plant pigments called anthocynanins. Anthocyanins transmit visible wavelengths of light under the right conditions. We visually see red, blue, and purple – you can clearly guess the foods contain a high concentration of them – blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, eggplant, etc.
Anthocynanins are beneficial antioxidants (inhibit the oxidation of other molecules in our bodies that lead to cell damage). A lot more research required to understand health benefits, however based on the studies available it certainly doesn’t hurt to add a little more color into your diet! The best way would be to eat whole purple potato (for example Okinawan), but the powder still provides these micronutrients.
Note: This recipe also works with gluten-free flour as a 1:1 sub for the regular flour. Because my flour wasn’t self-rising, I added baking powder – omit if you are using self-rising flour.
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