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January 21, 2008

Sweet potatoes

Last week I made Roasted sweet potatoes! (I tried out two different spellings (patatoes, patatos) before I got it right; oh well...)
Here is my exclusive recipe:

Start with some sweet potatoes and a peeler.
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Start heating up the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
Now, peel the potatoes. Look, what a lovely color!
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Cut the potatoes in cubes. Put them in an oven dish.
Sprinkle the following ingredients over them:
Olive oil
Freshly ground pepper
Sea salt
Herbes Provençales
Some peeled and cut up (not finely) garlic cloves
You can also add a sliced onion but I didn't this time

Mix all of it together in the oven dish and spread the potato cubes out, so they all have their own little surface to roast on.
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Put the dish in the oven. It should take about half an hour to roast the potatoes. Stir them after half the roasting time.
Prepare the rest of your dinner in the meantime. I added hamburgers, broccoli and some regular fried potatoes. Damaris and Emil like those better.
When all the other food is almost done, check if your sweet potatoes are soft and have brown edges. If not (and if you want to eat your potatoes with your meal, and not afterwards) increase the heat of the oven to 225 degrees for about 5 minutes (be careful you don't burn all of it!!!).

They should come out like below.
By the way, this is a single portion (Frederik was having a business dinner in Brussels round the corner of the Beenhouwersstraat, poor thing...). No need to feel bad if you finish everything by yourself: low in carbs and olive oil is healthy, right?!
If you double the portions, you should also double the size of your oven dish, so you have more roasting surface. If the potato cubes don't touch the bottom of the dish, they steam and won't be half as good!
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