It is November, and time to start holiday planning. Our table includes sweet potatoes every year, both for their great flavor and nutritional value. Here, we created a twist on the traditional heavy, brown sugar and marshmallow recipe by adding fresh tangy green apples and lemon sugar. You won't believe what a great flavor combination this is.
So coincidentally, we made this recipe Halloween weekend, but it was only an accident that they look exactly.like.pumpkins.
When preparing dinner whether it is for holidays or just Wednesday, you need something light, fresh, easy and delicious...that is, if you are going to go to the trouble of making homemade sweet potatoes.
This recipe has only seven ingredients, involves little prep time, and is ready to eat after roasting for 30 minutes.
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Ingredients
sweet potatoes
olive oil
white sugar
Granny Smith apple cored, peeled and minced
nutmeg
lemons(6) 2 to slice, 2 to zest, and 2 to juice.
butter softened
salt
white pepper
Instructions For Roasted Sweet Potatoes
- Preheat oven to 425F.
2. Begin by lining a sheet pan with parchment paper or silicon mat
3. Peel sweet potatoes and slice into ½” slices.
4. Slice 2 lemons the same way, in ½ inch slices.
5. Zest two lemons, then set aside.
6. Core, peel and mince apple.
7. Coat sweet potato slices and minced apple with olive oil in mixing bowl, adding the salt and pepper as you mix. Add lemon zest from 2 lemons.
8. Arrange lemon slices from 2 sliced lemons flat on baking sheet pan.
9. Lay sweet potatoes over the lemon slices and evenly coat them with ½ of the sugar.
Squeeze the lemon juice from the 2 zested lemons over the sweet potatoes.
10. Place baking sheet in oven for 15 minutes.
11. Remove the sweet potatoes from the oven and flip them over with a spatula. Add softened butter over the sweet potatoes.
12. Coat sweet potatoes with remaining sugar and squeeze the juice from the 2 remaining lemons evenly over the sweet potatoes. Roast for an additional 15 minutes until caramelized.
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What To Serve With Roasted Lemon Sugar Sweet Potatoes
We are suggesting that you prepare this recipe as part of your holiday meal, and would also recommend:
- Best Roasted Asparagus With Lemon, Feta and Walnuts,
- Roasted Garlic Mashed Red Potatoes
- Roasted Brussel Sprouts With Parmesan
Top Tip:
Lemons are essential to this recipe, and we need 6.
- 2 lemons are sliced and placed on the bottom of the baking sheet pan before adding the sweet potato/apple mix
- 2 lemons are zested, and the zest is added to the sweet potato/apple mix. The juice is squeezed over the sweet potato/apple mix before baking.
- 2 lemons are squeezed over the sweet potato/apple mix when the sweet potatoes are flipped at 15 minutes.
Ronda
I had the opportunity to try this delicious dish. It was a nice combination of the sweet potatoes, and a touch of zesty lemon to compliment each bite. I would definitely like to try this for the holiday season.