Glazed sweet potatoes

Name: Glazed sweet potatoes
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar; juice and grated rind of 1 unwaxed orange; 2 tablespoons honey; 750 g sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks; 50 g butter

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Winter Food

By Jill Norman

Published 2005

About

Deep orange-coloured sweet potatoes have a soft moist flesh that responds well to sweet flavours (honey, maple syrup, fruit juices), and to alcohol (rum, whisky, cognac, port). With this in mind, and perhaps the addition of warming spices — allspice, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, quatre-épices — this dish can be endlessly varied.

Ingredients

750 g sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
juice and grated rind of 1 unwaxed orange
2

Europe
United Kingdom
Side dish
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Put the sweet potato chunks in a single layer in a baking dish. Whisk together the orange juice, honey, balsamic vinegar, port and seasoning. Scatter the orange rind over the sweet potatoes, pour over the liquid and dot with small pieces of b