Melting Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Name: Melting Sweet Potatoes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: 3 pounds sweet potatoes (roughly equally sized); 3 tablespoons melted butter or melted extra virgin coconut oil; 3 tablespoons Garlic Extra Virgin Olive Oil or plain olive oil; 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt; 1 teaspoon ground black pepper; 3 garlic cloves (peeled and thinly sliced or chopped); 1 1/4 cups vegetable broth

Shared by Rebecca on 9/13/18 212

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Of all of the wonderful ways sweet potatoes can be served, one of my all time favourites is Melting Sweet Potatoes. There aren’t enough superlatives in our language to describe just how comforting these meltingly tender, deeply caramelized, flavour packed sweet potatoes are.

The uncomplicated, high-temperature cooking method condenses both the sweet and savoury qualities of sweet potatoes. There are a lot of recipes out there for sweet potatoes with maple syrup or brown sugar.

I find sweet potatoes to be sweet enough on their own, though. Anything else puts them into the dessert category for me.

The last minute addition of vegetable broth and chopped garlic boosts the sweet and savoury melting sweet potatoes into the umami stratosphere as the broth reduces to a fragrant sauce and the garlic roasts.

These 1-inch thick, mahogany slabs become so tender on the inside that they yield completely to the edge of a spoon.

I’m serious folks. This is my idea of food heaven.

These are a natural accompaniment to roast or grilled pork, chicken, turkey, or a perfect pan seared steak, of course, but I also enjoy the chilled or reheated leftovers cut into cubes and tossed onto greens with goat cheese and dried cranberries.

I have to tell you that my best-loved way to eat these is in abundance by themselves. If there is truth to ‘you are what you eat’ then I am quite likely largely sweet potato at this point.

Cooks’ Notes

1. If you can find roughly equally sized sweet potatoes, you’ll find your Melting Sweet Potatoes are easier to cook evenly and consistently.
2. DO use a half sheet pan for this recipe. DO NOT use a glass baking dish which could break at this temperature. Be sure your half sheet pan has a rim to keep the broth or stock from running over the edges. You can also use a roasting pan for smaller batches, just be sure it’s metal!
3. Half of the time I make these, I make them with melted butter and olive oil, and the other half of the time I make them with melted extra virgin coconut oil and olive oil. They are equally good.
4. Be aware there may be some slight smoking from the oven as these roast. Keeping a fan going while cooking should do the job.
5. If you find your potatoes are scorching, you may want to check whether your oven is correctly calibrated for temperature. This is most easily done with a super inexpensive oven thermometer available at most grocery stores or big box stores.Just pop the thermometer in the oven while it comes up to temperature. If it’s running hot, lower your oven a few degrees to compensate.
6. While I prefer to make Melting Sweet Potatoes with vegetable broth because of the flavour, you can certainly substitute beef or chicken broth.
7. Thinly sliced or chopped garlic are both delicious, so choose which you prefer. I don’t recommend pressing garlic in a garlic press for this recipe because it is prone to scorching at those high temperatures.
8. I habitually make more of these than I think we can eat (and we can eat heroic amounts of Melting Sweet Potatoes) because as mentioned above, I adore having leftovers for cutting up and serving on a bed of greens with goat cheese and dried cranberries.
9. There is another good reason to make more melting potatoes than you think you can eat; they reheat beautifully on a screaming hot cast-iron skillet with just a coating of butter or coconut oil. Simply heat until the bottom has re-crisped, flip, and repeat and eat.

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See how easy these Melting Sweet Potatoes are to make? No sweetener needed!

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