Sweet Potatoes with Cherry peppers, Figs, Green Onions and Balsamic Drizzle

Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Scallions, Calabrian Chile, Figs with Reduced Balsamic

I came across this recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi for these Roasted Sweet Potatoes called Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Figs. After I read the recipe I thought about how interesting and different it was. I thought it was great because it wasn’t too sweet. It seems almost every recipe written for sweet potatoes just sweetens them more. Most of my life I have eaten sweet potatoes with just butter because I want my dessert to be sweet and not my potatoes. I served these similar potatoes last year for Thanksgiving and most people who tried them enjoyed them so I did these potatoes similar this year but used Calabrian Chiles instead of tame cherry peppers.

It very easy to prepare this dish. I didn’t follow Y.O. & S.T. Recipe exactly because it was very simple so I winged it.

Use however many sweet potatoes you need and cut them into wedges. In my photo is only two sweet potatoes.

Lightly dress them in olive oil and spread them out on a non-stick sprayed baking sheet in a 425 degree F oven for about 20 minutes.

Add fresh ground sea salt and black pepper

On another baking sheet

Add figs cut in bite size pieces. some scallions in bite size pieces and some chiles of your choice. Cut mild chiles in thin rings. Chop hot chiles in small pieces. lightly drizzle with olive oil.

I put these on a baking sheet in a 350 degree F oven for about 15 minutes.

Added a small amount of fresh ground sea salt and black pepper.

Then I combined pans.

I used a better quality reduced balsamic vinegar and drizzled everything.

You can just easily reduce your own vinegar but it’s horrible to remove from a pot. I scrubbed and scrubbed and I thought my pot was ruined. It really was next to impossible to remove the residue of balsamic vinegar. I don’t recommend reducing vinegar unless you are using a non stick pot and even then I’m still not sure. Also the already made reduced vinegars differ greatly in quality. At the moment the one I like best is called “Fini” It’s the only reduced Balsamic that is 90% reduced balsamic without weird ingredients mixed in. I found Fini at World Market Store.

Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Green Onions, Calabrian Chili, Figs with Reduced Balsamic

A brilliant way to do sweet potatoes!

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