Sweet & Spicy Roasted Sweet Potatoes

I am eating more and more sweet potatoes lately, and I am liking them!  It was never that I disliked sweet potatoes, we just never ate a lot of them growing up (and maybe I didn't like them back then), but today I am finding them a much better alternative to pasta and white potatoes.  So anyway, the other night I wanted a sweet potato but I didn't want to simply bake it and then eat it with a little butter and salt - I wanted something different!  I looked up a couple recipes online and ended up combining a few of them - the end result was awesome!  The potatoes were sweet and then brought the heat!  I served the sweet potatoes with a piece of fish and some fresh broccoli. 

 

Sweet & Spicy Roasted Sweet Potatoes

 

Ingredients

1 large or 2 smaller sweet potato

2 - 3 tbs extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)

1 1/2 tsp light brown sugar

1/4 tsp onion powder

1/4 garlic powder

1 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp cayenne pepper

(more or less depending on your desired level of heat)

1/4 tsp paprika

1/8 tsp salt

 

Instructions

Wash and then cut the sweet potato (skin included) into approximately 2 inch cubes and place in a shallow baking dish ~ in a small bowl combine the light brown sugar, onion and garlic powder, cayenne pepper, chili powder, paprika and salt ~ pour the EVOO over the sweet potatoes and mix until potatoes are coated ~ pour the spice mix over the coated sweet potatoes, distributing easily ~ using a spatula mix the sweet potatoes until they are coated with the spice mix ~ bake at 400 degrees for approximately 25 minutes or under sweet potatoes are tender.

 

 Sweet potatoes pre-cooking!

 

Post-cooking!  Yummm!