Sweet and Spicy Twice Baked Sweet Potato

[caseydog]

Sweet and Spicy Twice Baked Sweet Potato

Easy recipe, but takes some time to bake.

Ingredients (for one serving -- multiply as needed)

1 Large Sweet Potato
1 TBSP Butter
1TBSP Dark Brown Sugar
1 TBSP Maple Syrup
1 Cayenne (or similar) Chili Pepper
1 Finely Diced Jalapeño Pepper (garnish)

How To

Preheat oven to 275F/135C. Scrub your sweet potato, let it dry, and rub it with some olive oil.

Bake your potato for around two hours, until you reach an internal temperature of 200F/93C. Take it out and let it rest around 10 minutes. Raise the oven temp to 400F/200C.

Finely slice a fresh cayenne pepper (or similar).

While your potato is resting, mix your butter, syrup, brown sugar and sliced chili pepper in a pan, and heat it over medium low heat. Do not start this step before your potato is done and resting -- you need to use it right away, as it will harden within a few minutes off the heat.

Cut your sweet potato in half, and scoop out all the flesh. Add your butter/sugar/syrup mix, and mash it all together.

Scoop the mixture into on half of your potato skin, and put it on a foil lined baking pan, and put it in the oven for about 15 minutes.

Take out of the oven, plate, and sprinkle your jalapeño pepper on top -- as much as you desire.

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[dragnlaw]

I like the spicy part of that sweet potato but just baking it and adding butter is more than sweet enough for me. Actually the more you bake it the more the sugars carmelize - I've especially notice this when I reheat them the next day as leftovers. YUM!

We used to do the carmelizing with brown sugar and butter for a Christmas dinner casserole. It started being too sweet for the family so sort of lost favour.

 

[Andy M.]

Sounds good. Try adding a little cinnamon.

 

[jazzerlord]

Sweet and Spicy Twice Baked Sweet Potato

Easy recipe, but takes some time to bake.

Ingredients (for one serving -- multiply as needed)

1 Large Sweet Potato
1 TBSP Butter
1TBSP Dark Brown Sugar
1 TBSP Maple Syrup
1 Cayenne (or similar) Chili Pepper
1 Finely Diced Jalapeño Pepper (garnish)

How To

Preheat oven to 275F/135C. Scrub your sweet potato, let it dry, and rub it with some olive oil.

Bake your potato for around two hours, until you reach an internal temperature of 200F/93C. Take it out and let it rest around 10 minutes. Raise the oven temp to 400F/200C.

Finely slice a fresh cayenne pepper (or similar).

While your potato is resting, mix your butter, syrup, brown sugar and sliced chili pepper in a pan, and heat it over medium low heat. Do not start this step before your potato is done and resting -- you need to use it right away, as it will harden within a few minutes off the heat.

Cut your sweet potato in half, and scoop out all the flesh. Add your butter/sugar/syrup mix, and mash it all together.

Scoop the mixture into on half of your potato skin, and put it on a foil lined baking pan, and put it in the oven for about 15 minutes.

Take out of the oven, plate, and sprinkle your jalapeño pepper on top -- as much as you desire.

Cut your sweet potato in half, and scoop out all the flesh. Add your butter/sugar/syrup mix, and mash it all together.

Scoop the mixture into on half of your potato skin, and put it on a foil lined baking pan, and put it in the oven for about 15 minutes.

Take out of the oven, plate, and sprinkle your jalapeño pepper on top -- as much as you desire.

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CD

I really like how this looks!

 

[medtran49]

I had been thinking about doing something similar with brown sugar or honey mixed with some adobo sauce and finely chopped chipotles.

 

[caseydog]

I posted it for anyone looking for something different to do with sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving.

CD

 

[dragnlaw]

and it sounds great @caseydog ! 99.99% will absolutely love it.
I'm gonna try it especially with the jalapeno Maybe not so much of the maple syrup but certainly lots of butter and a bit of brown sugar - just for my personal consumption, you understand.