Spicy Grilled Sweet Potatoes

"Adapted from Cooking Light. A healthy and different way to eat sweet potatoes, and one of my favorites. Goes well as a side with grilled meats or sandwiches. I like this because it is quick, easy, tasty, and excepting the cilantro I almost always have all the ingredients on hand. On top of all that, it's healthy and low-calorie. What's not to like?"
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
8
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Combine the spices in a small bowl (cumin, garlic powder, salt and red pepper). Mix.
  • Put the sweet potato slices in a medium bowl and drizzle with olive oil. Toss to coat. Sprinkle with the spices and toss to coat evenly.
  • Heat a stove-top grill or a large skillet over medium high heat. Remove briefly from heat, coat with cooking spray, and return to the heat. (The original recipe called for a grill, but I just use a skillet.).
  • Place sweet potato slices in the skillet, flipping occasionally, so that they are grilled crispy on both sides. They take about 10 minutes to cook as long as they are properly sliced to a thin 1/4-inch thickness.
  • When cooked, places in a serving bowl and sprinkle with the cilantro, if using. (The first several times I made this I had no cilantro, so did without. In the meantime I've made it with cilantro a few times, but it is just fine without it if you don't have any.).

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Reviews

  1. Delicious! I put the coated potatoes plus a dollop of butter in a sprayed tin foil packet and cooked them on the grill with chicken breasts. They were so good! This recipe is a keeper.
     
  2. Yum! What a great combination of spices and sweet potatoes. DH and DS inhaled these! I didn't use cilantro.
     
  3. Delicious! Perfect blend of sweet and spicy!!
     
  4. This was so quick and easy, and so good! They were tender and full of flavour, I did add the cilantro and loved them! Thanks for a keeper.
     
  5. We really enjoyed these a lot. I wasn't sure how to slice these and for me sweet potatoes are hard to slice evenly, so I quartered the potato then sliced it that way. Loved the spice combination in this recipe. I placed everything is a big plastic bad and shook it up to coat them evenly. Being southern at heart, I might add some brown sugar to this mixture of spices next time. Thanks.
     
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