Wishing all my readers and friends a Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Hope everybody’s turkey is brined already and only roasting/frying part is left. Dinner rolls, casseroles, sides, desserts are getting ready to going into the oven. Once they come out of oven, the house is going to smells with nice aroma and warmth of friends and family make it awesome experience.
I am thankful to God that he gave me my prince this year, and my princess started going to mother’s day out. Every day she brings some smile on my face with her art work and craft that she does in the school. When I going to pick her up she tells the stories that she did this and that. I am thankful of all my friends who encourage and helped me through difficult time. I am thankful to hubby for making me feel like most beautiful woman in the world. I am thankful to my readers of blog for inspiring me to cook and also read my everyday ramblings.
I am also thankful to all the Soldiers and their families who have served and are currently serving in the war. I have worked at the Veteran’s Hospital and seen firsthand their injuries and the emotional scars that they have. I also wish them a safe and Very Happy Thanksgiving.
I am thankful to God for all the happiness that He has given us and hope that He continues to protect and guide us.
For my Indian and other countries friends, Thanksgiving, is holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Main attraction of thanks giving is dinner or lunch. Some will have it as lunch and other will have it as dinner. Roasted Turkey will be main dish with bread stuffing along with gravy, cranberry sauce and casseroles. Dessert will be a pumpkin pie, pecan pie, sweet potato pie etc. I have tried everything except turkey when one of friend’s families had us for a thanksgiving dinner. In the local news I saw lot people standing in line to grab pie from a store for their Thanksgiving menu.
For Thanksgiving sides are must just like the turkey. Since I didn’t make any turkey; or any dessert do to fear of sugar overload, I made some sides. I had bought few sweet potatoes thinking that boiled sweet potato can lure my prince to eat. I was utterly wrong, he is a clever guy, and he knows mama is fooling him with boiled sweet potato. After taking a bite, he turned his face away. With rest of sweet potatoes, I made this roasted spicy sweet potato. I earlier tried cooking sweet potato with my all and one spicy lentil powder. This time I want to do something not tried before. I adapted the recipe from my friend Reeni of Cinnamon Spice and everything nice. I made some change to recipe by adding garam masala and skipping black pepper.
Roasted the sweet potato with chili, garm masala and cumin powder by making a marinade of all these with salt and olive oil. Baked the sweet potato for about 35 minutes at 375F, they turned out the delicious. It turned out be highly addictive with exact balance of sweet and spiciness. If you don’t want it very spicy, reduce the amount of chili powder. Try it, and it will add zing to your thanksgiving dishes, also well for having with rice.
Here goes the recipe.
Preheat oven to 375F. Peal the skin of sweet potato, rinse with water and chop them into cubes of about 1 inch. Make marinade with spices, salt and olive oil, mix with sweet potato.
Transfer to baking sheet lined with aluminum foil and spread evenly. Roast them for about 35 minutes or until it is well done. In between turn them to get uniform roasting.
Enjoy
Roasted Spicy Sweet Potatoes
Adapted from Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Serves 2
Ingredients:
2 Cup Chopped Sweet potato
½ teaspoon Kashmiri chili powder
½ teaspoon Cumin Powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon Garam masala
1 ½ tablespoon Olive Oil
Steps:
Preheat oven to 375 F. Line baking sheet with nonstick aluminum foil and set aside.
Peel the skin of sweet potato and rinse with water and chop into cubes of 1 inch thickness.
In a small bowl add salt and spices and olive oil mix everything to form a marinade
Add the chopped sweet potatoes into marinade and using a spoon mix everything so that it gets coated well.
Transfer the sweet potatoes coated with marinade into baking sheet and bake for about 35 minutes or until it is done.
Enjoy as much you wish.
Variations:
- If you don’t want spicy you can reduce the amount of chili powder.
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Reshmi Mahesh says
Perfect bake with lovely flavors...Hope u had a lovely Thanksgiving dear..
Katerina says
Beautifully roasted sweet potatoes! Perfect for Thanksgiving and not only!
Vineetha says
Hope u had a grt thanks giving !! This looks cpvery tempting swathi 🙂
Kavi Foodomania says
Wonderful presentation Swathi!
Elisabeth says
Hi Swathi, thanks you for your sweet words, and caring thoughts! I'm also thankful for our friendship, and glad that we're friends. I love roasted sweet potatoes, especially the way you made it with the delicious spices!
Hope you had a very nice Thanksgiving with your sweet family!
Cake Duchess says
I hope you and your family had a nice Thanksgiving, Swathi. Just love the spice in these sweet potatoes. I would love to make this as a side dish one day this week. 🙂
Suja Manoj says
Loved the twist,never tried roasted potatoes,looks so yummy.
Kitchen Queen says
Love roasted sweet potatoes.
Hema says
They look simply awesome, could have some now..
Divya Pramil says
Interesting recipe dear...Loved that beautiful write up Swathi 🙂 You have such a thankful heart.. 🙂
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Julie says
delectable & yummy bites..Hope u had a great Thanksgiving too!!
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Reeni Pisano says
What a wonderful twist to these potatoes with garam masala Swathi! Love that idea. Thanks for making them my dear friend.
Peachy Adarne says
Nice side dish for thanksgiving!
Mich PieceofCake says
This is a wonderful way of eating sweet potatoes... it must be beautifully flavored with all the spices.
Lizzy Do says
Thanks for the beautiful Thanksgiving wishes! I am very lucky to call you a friend 🙂 Your sweet potatoes look perfect...I will be roasting some for dinner tonight, too!
Shabbu says
Tempting recipe..
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Malli says
The detailed instructions are awesome and most certainly the colors on those sweet potatoes are very inviting!!
Jemini says
love this sweet potatoes...very tempting and happy thanks giving dear...
kausers kitchen says
Delicious combo..looks delicious.
Have a lovely weekend 🙂
Rebecca Subbiah says
love your sweet potatoes and we are so in a similar stage of life with two wee ones a boy and a girl love it
Julia says
I like very much this receipt, I love potatos and your receipt its coming with me.
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Balvinder Ubi says
Even though my family does not eat potatoes but we do eat sweet potatoes in salads. Swathi, if you don't see my updates you might have to join me again on Google. Have a good day!
Kaveri Venkatesh says
Nice one Swathi....Looks very yum!
El Oteador de los Mercados says
A very tasty recipe. The other day make 2 recipes from your blog (I still have to improve) that I liked a lot. Although I changed some ingredients.
http://www.zestysouthindiankitchen.com/2012/10/garam-masala-zucchini-chips-too-good-as.html
http://www.zestysouthindiankitchen.com/2012/07/chinese-scallion-pancakes-cong-you-bing.html
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks for trying my recipes and glad you liked it.
Saranya Balaji says
tempting potatoes...
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PT says
wow.. very delicious dear..
Priya R says
lovely recipe Swathi and happy thanksgiving dear... 🙂 u are a person to admire, good to know that you had worked at veteran hospital... must be really a hard moment to see people suffering
Navaneetham Krishnan says
We don't do thanks giving over here and in fact, I am not sure on the significants. I am tempted over this sweet potato recipe, that combination of spices with the sweet taste will be uplifting and heavenly.
Swathi Iyer says
Thanksgiving is American Tradition.
Hamaree Rasoi says
It feels great to see the cute little things which my son makes at art and craft classes so can relate with your post. roasted sweet potatoes are looking delicious ....
Shama Nagarajan says
delicious and inviting...
Latha Madhusudhan says
Eyecatching and very tempting!!
CakeWhiz says
sweet potatoes made this way sound extremely tasty! i only use salt and paprika but garam masala is an exciting addition... i will remember to try this next time 🙂
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Amrita Vishal says
Lovely and a very different dish for the festivity.Happy thanksgiving to you too.
Priya says
Incredible roasted sweet potatoes, loving that garam masala touch.
Faseela Noushad says
tempting roast swathi....
DivyaGCP says
Interesting side dish for thanksgiving.. Simple and yummy!!
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
Ah I have made these in a very similar way and they are so tasty and yummy!! Yours is looking so delicious and am mouthwatering here!!
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Roha says
Very Inviting 🙂
Nandini says
Delicious and inviting roasted sweet potatoes!!
Sajina Bishar says
Never tried sweet potatoes yet...Your pics luk yummy n wud definitely try it...Do participate in my ongoing event..
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Sangeetha Priya says
Wow nice write up n delicious curry!!!Wish u happy thankgiving day...
divya says
Wow such a gorgeous dish
srividhya Ravikumar says
super yummy sweet potatoes swathi...
Beena.stephy says
Tempting dish
Veena Theagarajan says
Wow! looks so tasty and inviting
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runnergirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com says
The sweet taste of potatoes along with the spice.. sounds like a great combination!