Spicy Sweet Potatoes
"Easy, tasty, crisp, non-greasy sweet potatoes from the oven. This recipe is from the Gourmet Magazine's 2000 Every Day Meals & it turns out great whether you are making it for 4 or 10 or more servings. I often serve this dish as an appetizer or as my friend Tom said "I could make a meal out of this!" It is also a great side dish with ham."
photo by A Good Thing
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 small sweet potatoes (3/4 lb total)
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon cayenne
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground allspice
directions
- Preheat oven to 500°F.
- Peel potatoes and halve lengthwise, then cut each half lengthwise into 4 wedges. Transfer to a shallow baking pan and toss with oil to coat. Arrange in single layer in pan. Combine salt and spices and sprinkle over potatoes.
- Roast potatoes in lower third of oven, turning over halfway through roasting, until tender and browned, 15 to 20 minutes total.
- Serve hot from the oven.
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Reviews
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We really liked the spice on these and will make them again. They really should be eaten straight out of the oven, though. Made for PAC 2007. Thanks, lois. (: -
These were good, but not outstanding for us. I think that for our palate, we needed a bit of sweetness to balance the spice on the sweet potato. -
I made these as part of our Thanksgiving meal, and we really loved them. I could not find the cayenne, so used ancho powder instead (doubled amount). Turned out just wonderful - first dish to be emptied.
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Living in Tampa, Florida provides opportunity for great fresh vegetables& fruits year round. I work as a health care provider at a clinic & at the local university while my husband continues on a forever home renovation. We cook for ourselves & our friends, love to entertain & have a new kitchen which helps make cooking a pleasure! We travel when we can, have one dog (Petey-boxer boy), great neighbors & friends. Life is good. Cooking is a great outlet to use creativity, relieve stress & you get to eat the results (usually). My favorite cookbooks: Cooking for Mr. Latte, Amanda Hesser [I have literally cooked every recipe in this book-good, easy & cosmopolitan]; The Cook & the Gardener, Amanda Hesser [lots of recipes with again a cosmopolitan flare, written while Ms. Hesser was the cook in France at a country manor]; Encore with Claudine, Jacques Pepin; Cooking at Home, Julia Child & Jacques Pepin; Bon Appetite magazine is my favorite & I look forward to each monthly copy. I mostly follow recipes to the letter (I think it's related to my job in the medical profession). My husband Art is the prep & clean up guy. He is also the best eater I know. Who else can eat the same thing 3-5 days in a row & not complain?
