Best Roasted Sweet Potato Salad 2023

Today we are making an extra flavor sweet potato salad with extra four ingredients that everyone will love. This recipe is packed with healthy and delicious ingredients!

This is a perfect recipe for parties, Barbecues, picnics, and any time you need an easy and color full side dish to feed a crowd.

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It’s great to have a hand for last-minute invites and dishes can be soy-free, sugar-free, and oil-free and easily adapted to fit diets as well.

It will be prepared with ingredients that will be easily available at any superstore. This is a super easy recipe.

We love this salad warm, straight from the oven. But we can keep it at room temperature and it is good one or two days later. we can wrap it in leafy green and top it with a fried egg.

YIELDS 6SERVING

PREP TIME 0 HOUR 24MINUTES

TOTAL TIME 0 HOUR 40 MINUTES

How to make sweet potato salad?

Ingredients

3 large sweet potatoes peeled and cut in cube

¼ cup freshly chopped parsley

½ cup dried cranberries

½ cup crumbled feta

Black and fresh ground pepper

1 small red onion thinly sliced

2 tbsp olive oil extra virgin

Salt

Dressing ingredients:

2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

¼ tsp ground paprika

½ tsp ground cumin

1tbsp honey

1tbsp Dijon mustard

2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar

Direction

First of all, we will preheat the oven to 400. Take a large baking sheet and place their sweet potatoes and onion, add olive oil and toss them well and season with salt and pepper.

Distribute it in a single layer on a sheet. Bake it for twenty minutes until tender. Let’s cool it for 15 minutes and transfer this material to a large bowl.

After this, we will prepare the dressing of the sweet potato salad recipe. For dressing we need a small bowl we can use a cup or any pot. In the bowl, we add extra virgin olive oil, ground paprika, cumin powder, honey, Dijon mustard, and vinegar and whisk it gradually. Season with salt and pepper.

We will add cranberries, Feta, and parsley to sweet potatoes and onion oil. Add the dressing and toss them well. Serve warm or at room temperature. 

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Tips and Tricks

How do fix sweet potato salad?

Your starting point is to know the taste of the sweet potato. Is it a bit blah or it is a little too sweet? Add some vinegar just a teaspoon and mix it well. Then taste the salad.

What is the healthiest way to eat sweet potato?

The healthiest way to prepare them is to boil or steam them. But you can also roast it or fry it but you should take care of the limit of this preparation method.

What does sweet potato go best with?

Wild rice, chestnut, pineapple, potato, carrot, ginger lime, orange, persimmon, rose marry, coriander, thyme, walnut, coconut, corn spinach, and cinnamon clove.

Can I prepare sweet potatoes in advance?

Peel potatoes and chop up to a day in advance. Take a bowl and add some cool water, place the potatoes in the bowl and keep it in the refrigerator.

Peel and chop potatoes 3 to 4 days before and store them in a container and sealed bag with an alright lid in the refrigerator.

Why do you add vinegar to potato salad?

Adding some vinegar to hot potatoes gives a finished salad a pleasant tang.

Is it better to boil or steam sweet potatoes?

When we boil it retains most of the antioxidant power of sweet potatoes.

Is it better to boil or microwave sweet potatoes?

Baking sweet potatoes in the microwave have far more nutrients vitamin A and vitamin c than boiling them.

Do you peel the sweet potatoes before baking them?

The skin of sweet potatoes is safe to eat both cooked or raw. you don’t need to peel it before baking. It contains such as fiber and antioxidants but if you don’t like it peel sweet potatoes before baking.

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