Roasted Sweet Potatoes

I recently made Sweet Potato Kale Salad with Cranberries, Walnuts, and Goat Cheese because I happened to have all the ingredients. I don’t expect such a refrigerator conjunction again, but I did like the idea of quickly roasting sweet potato chunks on their own or for mixing into another vegetable.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ lbs sweet potatoes (2 or 3 potatoes)
• 1 T. olive oil
• ¼ tsp. kosher salt
• ⅛ tsp. black pepper
• other spices to taste

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°.
2. Peel and cut the potatoes into ½ inch cubes.
3. Toss with other ingredients.
4. Arrange in a single layer on an edged cookie sheet.
5. Roast 12 minutes or to desired tenderness.

Variants

You can bake whole sweet potatoes in the oven for about an hour at 425° (stabbed and oiled), turning halfway through, or in a crockpot (just washed) for up to 8 hours on low or 4 on high.

You can make whole skinny sweet potatoes in the Instant Pot, on the trivet with 1 cup of water, high pressure, 15 minutes with natural release. Rumor has it thicker sweet potatoes may take longer. Although rumor has it you can’t, you can toss in some regular potatoes as well.

You can mash sweet potatoes. For non-dairy mashed sweet potatoes, the Spruce recommends coconut milk, ground ginger, curry powder, olive oil, and optionally orange juice.