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These sweet and savory Maple Chipotle Sweet Potatoes are your next dinner staple! They’re tossed in olive oil and real maple syrup, sprinkled with spices, and baked on high heat until crispy and caramelized.
Do you ever think about how much we rely on the internet and the plethora of information at our fingertips at every moment? I try to go more analog for a day or a weekend but the pull to technology is real! Why am I talking about technology with a sweet potato recipe? Because my go-to ways to cut a sweet potato are in rounds or cubes. Well today I thought wedges would be a fun change up and instead of using my brain to visualize how to cut a sweet potato into wedge shapes, I went straight to Google.
I know most of you will be thinking, “Wait you don’t know how to cut wedges?!” Don’t worry, I do! But they never look as pretty as I want them to. Until today. Thanks, Google! Anyway, now I can spread the knowledge to you because I’m basically a wedge-cutting pro.
Here’s What You Need:
- Sweet potatoes
- Olive oil
- Maple syrup
- Seasonings and spices: chipotle chili powder, garlic powder, paprika, oregano, cumin, sea salt and black pepper.
- Optional: sprinkling of chili peppers
How to Cut a Sweet Potato Into a Wedge
The moment you’ve all been waiting for!
STEP 1: Cut the ends off your sweet potatoes.
STEP 2: Cut each potato in half widthwise and then lengthwise. Your potato will now be cut into fourths.
STEP 3: Place the cut (flat) edge of the sweet potato on the cutting board and cut in half lengthwise. (You now have 8 pieces from one potato.)
STEP 4: Cut each piece in half one more time lengthwise to make your final wedge! This cut is the trickiest because you are kind of cutting right down the peak of sweet potato flesh and not on a flat service.
The Best Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges
After you cut your sweet potatoes, the hard part is over! Place the chopped sweet potatoes into a large bowl and top with olive oil and maple syrup. Stir to coat.
In a small bowl, combine the spices. Add the spices to the sweet potatoes and mix until well coated.
Place the wedges on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat, making sure you don’t overcrowd them. Keeping them spaced out will help them get nice and crispy!
Bake at 425ºF for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and flip each wedge. Bake for an additional 10 minutes or until they’re crisped to your liking.
PrintMaple Chipotle Sweet Potatoes
These sweet and savory Maple Chipotle Sweet Potatoes are your next dinner staple! They’re tossed in olive oil and real maple syrup, sprinkled with spices, and baked on high heat until crispy and caramelized.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Side
- Method: Bake
- Diet: Vegan
Ingredients
- 2 med-large sweet potatoes, cut into wedges (see above for instructions)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 1/2 tsp chipotle chili powder (or any chili powder works)
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- 1/4 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper pepper
- optional: sprinkling of chili peppers
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Place chopped sweet potatoes into a large bowl and top with olive oil and maple syrup. Stir to coat.
- In a small bowl combine spices.
- Top sweet potatoes with spices and stir until well coated.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment or a silicone mat and place wedges on top. Make sure you don’t overcrowd (use two sheets if necessary).
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and flip each wedge.
- Bake for 10 more minutes or until level of crispness is reached.
- Serve warm.
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Oh Youtube. You really were right saying EVERYTHING is on there.
Ths is why you need to come to Australia- We ONLY do Wedges. (Not really, but still).
Glad I am not the only navigationally challenged one out there and we agree on the powers of google maps!! ;).
(p.s – these wedges look delicious!)
I really do wonder how people survived without the internet. Your comment about google maps made me laugh out loud. Being in a new city I use that bad boy pretty much every day finding new routes and short cuts. I am the worst map reader ever so without that handy moving dot telling me if I am going in the right direction or not I think I would end up in China too. Now to the food – these wedges look buff – paprika makes everything taste so good!
Mango Chipotle?! Like two of the most delicious things? Count me in…these sound wonderful.
And I feel ya on the youtube thing. Back in college I became a littleeeeee too obsessed with youtube beauty tutorials. My friends would make fun of me/get annoyed I took so long because I always did my makeup along with a video. Haters gonna hate.
Oh the things I type into google are completely embarrassing, don’t even worry! I think collectively we are all getting worse at figuring things out for ourselves and debating as a result because answers are just a search away!
These look delicious and I can’t wait to see if I can figure out how to cut wedges all on my own so I can make them 😉
Ahhhh potatoes, my one true love. Next to the Hubby of course. Like in Field of Dreams, if you bring potatoes, I will come. These look stupendous. I’ll be making them for sure, although not sure about the whole wedge business. I may have to google it. 😉
Love these! I saw your recipe this morning and decided that the languishing sweet potatoes in the pantry must need used up. So I epicurized your recipe (sorry). I used the maple syrup and Mango Curry Dip Mix for the rest 🙂 Super yum! thanks for the inspiration (and the super yummy guacamole chicken salad that was my lunch yesterday 😉
I once had to check YouTube to find out WHICH of the Swiss Knife Tools is the can opener and how to actually use it. (Iamswiss)
My life is a little less embarrassing thanks to Wikipedia. I work in a male dominated world and definitely sometimes need to google or wiki words they use or some history/geography stuff at which I am sososo bad.
Wedges. Crispy. Gimme.
I usually ask my husband first. If we stump each other, we YouTube together. 🙂
I am so predictable when it comes to sweet potatoes…I keep them round and throw them in the microwave. Every time I try to put them in the oven they never look as pretty as this…HAHA! I’ll try to think outside my little box and try these, because they look DELISH!