Ingredients

How to make it

  • Oven at 400 F.
  • Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into 2-inch wedges.
  • Toss them in olive oil, salt, black pepper, and a bit of chipotle powder.
  • (Don't overdo this - you only want a little heat on the potatoes themselves.)
  • Liberally oil a baking sheet, and lay the potatoes out in a single layer. Roast for 20-30 minutes, or until soft inside and crispy on the edges. Serve warm.
  • For the Chipotle-Maple Sauce:
  • 0. drain chipotles, reserving adobo sauce
  • remove stem tops of 5-6 chipotles then seed and chop into pleasantly
  • sized (small) pieces
  • chop all other veg
  • melt butter over med heat
  • saute onions, garlic, shallots until slightly soft then reduce heat
  • slightly and carefully brown the veg taking care not to:
  • - burn the butter or garlic
  • when veg starts to go brown, add flour and stir, reduce heat and cook to a dirty blonde roux
  • add 5 teaspoons of adobo sauce and stir
  • add enough veg stock to start to thin roux, then thin to desired
  • consistency
  • stir in maple syrup
  • cook for 5-7 minutes on low then strain to get rid of all veg bits
  • cook on low for another 5 minutes just to make sure flour is cooked
  • - at this point: taste and adjust seasoning including adobo for heat level
  • remembering that actual chipotles will be going in just before serving.
  • The addition of the chipotles will definitely make the heat level go UP .
  • Adjust for sweetness, if you wish.
  • You can hold the sauce on either super low simmer or on top of a warming area.
  • To finish the sauce:
  • bring sauce to heat over medium heat then take off heat to stir in 1/2
  • stick of butter taking care not to break the sauce.
  • You can add more butter if you want but 1/2 stick should make it glossy...
  • add the chopped chipotles
  • taste and adjust seasoning...a bit of salt at this point is probably
  • good....
  • Sauce should be served warm not blazingly hot.

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    " It was excellent "
    lunasea ate it and said...
    Hey Joymarie hon - this caught my eye and I have to say that this rocks. I'll be trying this lovely dish on my dinner guests this holiday season. Thanks so much and ^5! *hugs*
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    " It was excellent "
    minitindel ate it and said...
    Ok this sounds good too just a good old southern girl well at least raised that way...my dad from mississippi and mom from oklahoma.i was born in calif does that count lol
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  • mystic_river1 16 years ago
    Hope you both enjoy..yep, it's hot but so addictive.Please let me know! Thanks for the comments.
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  • alexander_kassal 16 years ago
    This sounds like heartburn heaven, but I have a bottle of cherry flavoured malox, so I am going to try this for sure. The Greeks say that sweet potatoes are a gift from the gods - well, they say that about almost everything, but in this cas I am inclined to believe them.
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  • kukla 16 years ago
    Mystic, this sound devine! I also love sweet potatoes...will be saving this one! thanks!
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