Crispy Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Honey Yogurt Sauce

WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS RECIPE

This Crispy Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Honey Yogurt Sauce recipe is a really quick but effortless way to elevate sweet potatoes and serving a show stopper dish. The simplist way to describe these Crispy Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Honey Yogurt Sauce is that they are tossed in maple syrup and oil, roasted until they are caramelized and then drizzled with yogurt aioli sauce, golden raisins, sunflower seeds and scattered with pine nuts…although that was a mouthful! These Crispy Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Honey Yogurt Sauce absolutely look like they take way more work than they really do…and that’s likely a good thing!

These crispy roasted sweet potatoes are gluten free, vegan, dairy free and easy to make!

These potaotes are a one pan meal which means you wont need anything else to bake these! Theres almost no clean up for these sweet potatoes…and only a few dishes to wash!

Sweet potatoes are probably the most versatile vegetable in the world, if you ask me. They’re perfect for roasting on the grill during the summer. They’re perfect for slow roasting in the oven during the fall and winter. You literally cannot go wrorng. You can use sweet potatoes to make chips, to make pizza crusts, as a mashed side dish, topped with marshmallows for the holidays. I could go on and on. However, they are hand down the best when roasted into create crispy garlic cubes!

If you don’t like sweet potatoes you can try this recipe with white potatoes, golden potatoes or red potatoes.

INGREDIENTS & SUBSTITUTIONS

The sweet potatoes:

• sweet potato
• cumin
• cinnamon
• garlic
• onion
• salt + pepper to taste
• avocado oil
• sugar free maple syrup

The yogurt sauce:

• fat free greek yogurt or vegan yogurt
• avocado oil
• garlic powder

The topping:

• paprika
• honey or vegan honey or more maple syrup
• sunflower seeds
• golden raisins
• pine nuts

TASTE & TEXTURE

These garlic crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes are the perfect side to go with just about any main dish. These crispy roasted sweet potatoes are covered for the first half of baking to let the potatoes steam and get soft, then uncovered for the second half of baking to make sure the edges are crispy. This way the potatoes are moist still in the center and not dried out. These roasted sweet potatoes are have perfectly crisp caramelized edges and have the best juicy garlic flavor.

DIRECTIONS

STEP 1

Prepare the crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes. 

Cut the potato in half the long ways. I like to cut the halves into 1/2″ columns, then into 1/2″ cubes. Don’t forget, cut the sweet potato cubes as uniform as you can so they cook evenly.

Add potato cubes to a parchment lined glass baking dish.

STEP 2

Season the sweet potatoes. Toss the sweet potatoes in olive oil and maple syrup. The oil and maple syrup should be evenly on every potato cube and none of the cubes should be overlapping. Next add the seasoning: cumin, cinnamon, garlic, onion powder, salt + pepper to taste.

STEP 3

Roast the sweet potatoes. Add the baking dish into the oven to cook the crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes. Next, cook covered for the first half of baking to let the potatoes steam and get soft, then uncovered for the second half of baking to make sure the edges are crispy. This way the potatoes are moist still in the center and not dried out. You will know when the crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes are done when they are browned and crisp around the edges and soft in the center.

STEP 4

While the sweet potatoes are roasting, create the yogurt aioli sauce. Mix together the yogurt, avocado oil and garlic powder. Set aside.

Step 5

Once the sweet poatoes are done, plate them. Top them with the yogurt aioli sauce. Drizzle with honey. Top with pine nuts, sunflower seeds and golden raisins! Enjoy!

EXPERT TIPS & TRICKS

I like to use a glass baking pan with edges so you can easily toss the crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes around while in the oven without worrying about the sweet potatoes going over the edge. Plus, if theres any extra oil you don’t have to worry about it dripping out the pan edges.

HOW TO SERVE & STORE

These crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes are a perfect side dish to any main course. The sweet potaotes are so garlicy you’ll be sure to have garlic breath after you’re done…but who said thats a bad thing! I like to serve them hot, right out of the oven.

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Crispy Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Honey Yogurt sauce (gluten free)

These Crispy Roasted Sweet Potatoes have a Honey Yogurt Sauce and are topped with raisins, sunflower seeds and pine nuts.

Ingredients

For the roasted sweet potaotes

• 1 large sweet potato
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp garlic
• 1 tsp onion
• salt + pepper to taste
• 1 tbsp avocado oil
• 1 tbsp sugar free maple syrup

For the yogurt sauce

• 1/2 cup fat free greek yogurt or vegan yogurt
• 1/2 tbsp avocado oil
• 1 tsp garlic

For the topping

• 1 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tbsp honey or vegan honey
• 1 tbsp sunflower seeds
• 2 tbsp golden raisins
• 2 tbsp pine nuts

Instructions

• Prepare the crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes. Cut the potato in half the long ways. Then I like to cut the halves into 1/2″ columns, then into 1/2″ cubes. I try to cut the sweet potato cubes as uniform as I can so they cook evenly. Add potato cubes to a parchment lined glass baking dish.
• Season the sweet potatoes. Toss the sweet potatoes in olive oil and maple syrup. The oil and maple syrup should be evenly on every potato cube and none of the cubes should be overlapping. Next add the seasoning: cumin, cinnamon, garlic, onion powder, salt + pepper to taste.
• Roast the sweet potatoes. Add the baking dish into the oven to cook the crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes. Cook covered for the first half of baking (20-30 minutes on 400) to let the potatoes steam and get soft, then uncovered for the second half of baking (25-35 minutes) to make sure the edges are crispy. This way the potatoes are moist still in the center and not dried out. You will know when the crispy roasted Sweet Potatoes are done when they are browned and crisp around the edges and soft in the center.
• While the sweet potatoes are roasting, create the yogurt aioli sauce. Mix together the yogurt, avocado oil and garlic powder. Set aside.
• Once the sweet poatoes are done, plate them. Top them with the yogurt aioli sauce. Drizzle with honey. Top with paprika pine nuts, sunflower seeds and golden raisins! Enjoy!