John: Well, this is chef John from Foodwishes.com and today we have a delicious sweet potato recipe. We are going to glaze them with some lime and Chipotle pepper and roast them really nice side dish delicious, and there are three sweet potatoes. I don't how big they are. Get three big sweet potatoes. Also yam will work. There is a Chipotle pepper, olive oil, little bit salt, right, nice juicy lime. As usual all the ingredients are there on the site. So what I am going to do is, I am going to squeeze my lime in a bowl. Now this was a really beautiful juicy ripe lime, I got a lot of juice out of that. If you need two limes, use two, right? Because I want at least a quarter cup, third of a cup of lime juice. So again, one big juicy lime or two small ones.
Now you're going to add your smoked jalapeño which is what Chipotle pepper is, in fact, it might be easier for you to say smoked jalapeño. I put in a teaspoon of salt, and a teaspoon of olive oil, and that basically is like a little marinate/dressing/citranate. We have gone over citranate before. If you don't know that term, that will be a thing on the post, you can go and look it up. There is our yam and our sweet potato. I don't even know which one this was. It was solely sweet potato, but when I started peeling it, it looked like a yam, because it was really, really, really orange. I don't know, anything will work.
So go ahead and peel that. It's a pretty easy peel to get that nice peeler. Cut off the tips, the ends, alright, I usually rinse those off a little bit, and we are ready to cube these up. Now, what I am going for is about half inch cubes. I guess half inch to an inch, but here is what I do. I don't cut it lengthwise, because sweet potato is very brittle. It's got a strange texture. It fragments easily. So I don't want bunch of pieces flying all over. So what I do is, I cut it into half, then I cut it in half that way. Then I cut that half in half, and I am going to stop saying half now.
Alright, so once I headed down to that, I am going to cut that in like three pieces. So I guess this is about one inch cubes, and what I did, because the first cut was a little thicker, see how I left the end where it start to taper off, I left that a little longer. Again, what we are going for is even cooking, perfect time to preheat your oven at 375, and see how I zoomed into a blurred out, I learned that on that show a lot, where they have these directors making movies.
Alright, add your cut up sweet potatoes and or yams to our marinate, which again, just lime juice, that hot Chipotle pepper and some salt. Give it a toss. See, I am a professional chef, I can toss it in the bowl. You might be using a spoon like this. Either way it works. Don't worry, don't feel bad. Alright, take your baking sheet with your silicon mat. Again, reason, 746 to buy one of those $20 silicon mats. See nothing is going to stick to it. These are sweet, lot of sugar in the sweet potato and our marinate. We don't that burned on to the pan. So spread those out evenly. Alright, see how fast I did that? So spread those out nice and even, and what we are going to do is, we are going to pop those in the oven for half hour, and why I used a spoon and didn't just dump everything on there. I wanted that reserved liquid. I am going to show you a little trick later.
So for 30 minutes at 375 we are going to bake those, and they are not going to be cooked all the way, but they are going to be cooked 90% of the way, right. See how they get a little brown going on them. Again, nothing sticks to that silicon, it's magical. So what you are going to do, see, I reserved the juice in that bowl. I am going to put those back in. They are nice and hot. They are going to soak up the rest of that marinate, and they are going to get extra delicious. Now I am going to season them a little more. I am going to put another pinch of salt about a half a teaspoon, maybe a third of a teaspoon, just a little sprinkling, and just s slight drizzle of olive oil, maybe not even a teaspoon. Maybe half a teaspoon, few drips. Give that a toss. Scrape down the sides. See if I dumped the whole bowl on the pan the first time, I wouldn't had anything left. That's why I used a spoon to place them on the first time. You can go rewind and watch that part again. Alright, now you dump everything on there. Spread them out evenly again, and what we are going to do, is we are going to give them a final baking.
So we are going to turn up the oven up to 450, and we are going to bake it further nice a 12 minutes. It's going to be between 10-15 minutes depending on your oven and how dark you need them and how big you cut them. Those were mine and they don't get crispy, they don't get crunchy but they get delicious. So very simple, just a few ingredient, awesome side dish for all your summer or barbecue things. Go to the site, read the full story and most importantly enjoy.
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