Honey Roasted Sweet Potatoes
It's easy to eat your veggies with an easy recipe like this for the most delectable sweet potatoes ever!
Ingredients
- 2 lbs sweet potatoes
- ¼ cup honey
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- ⅛ tsp cinnamon
- nutmeg, freshly grated
- salt & pepper, to taste
- 1 tbsp diced preserved lemon peel, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil.
- Peel and cut sweet potatoes into 1 inch sized chunks.
- Place sweet potato chunks in a large bowl and season generously with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- Zest and juice one lemon, set aside.
- In a small sauce pan heat, butter, olive oil and honey over medium heat until it foams up.
- Turn off heat and stir in reserved lemon juice, lemon zest, cinnamon and freshly grated nutmeg.
- Pour hot glaze over sweet potatoes in the bowl and toss to coat.
- Spread sweet potato chunks and glaze onto foil lined cookie sheet, in a single layer.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Toss chunks about half way through cook time to ensure they brown evenly on all sides.
- Sweet potatoes are done once glaze has thickendd and caramelized, the chunks start to brown nicely along the edges, and they are soft when pierced with a fork.
- To serve, top with a tablespoon of finely diced preserved lemon peel if desired.