Allan’s Mum’s Sweet Potatoes with Sugar, Cinnamon & Orange Juice

Name: Allan’s Mum’s Sweet Potatoes with Sugar, Cinnamon & Orange Juice
Yield: Serves 6 as a Side dish
Ingredients: juice of 1 large orange; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 long strips orange rind; 1 teaspoon salt; 800 g (1 lb 12 oz) orange sweet potatoes; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 100 g (3½ oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 40 g (1½ oz) butter

Preparation info

Serves
6
as a Side dish

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Falling Cloudberries

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2004

About

This could almost be a dessert. It is very good served alongside game, wintery roasts and full-flavoured spicy food. Allan’s mum, Sue, is a wonderful cook — loaded with instinct — and everyone loves her food. She often makes her potatoes even sweeter than these.

Ingredients

800 g (1 lb 12 oz) orange sweet potatoes
2

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Peel the sweet potatoes and rinse them, then cut them lengthways into 5 mm (¼ inch) slices. Put them in a saucepan with the rest of the ingredients and about 750

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