Oven-Roasted Sweet Potatoes with a Blue Cheese Dip

My family loves sweet potatoes – we eat them untouched, just boiled. My grandparents grew sweet potatoes in Durban. We’d prepare them by boiling them in their skins and then peeling them. Their sweet potatoes had a completely different texture to the ones we find today – they were much denser and drier. You felt full after eating just a few. The sweet potatoes readily available to us now are a little moister and end up tasting very bland if boiled. Nowadays I prefer to roast my sweet potato