Vegan Maple-roasted Hasselback Sweet Potatoes and Butternut
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings
- Category: Vegan
Description
This delicious vegan dish is sweet, nutty, and the perfect side for a Christmas table spread.
Ingredients
4 sweet potatoes (select ones that are not too thick) or 1 large butternut, halved lengthways and seeds removed (or a mix of both vegetables)
1 C (250 ml) vegetable stock
½ C (125 ml) maple syrup
4 sprigs fresh thyme
olive oil
salt and pepper
25 g crushed pistachio nuts
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180 ºC.
Wash/scrub the sweet potatoes/butternut.
Slice into the sweet potatoes/butternut at 5mm intervals. Do not cut all the way through to the bottom, the slices must stay intact. Do this all the way across the vegetables until you have thin fan-like slices.
Place the potatoes/butternut into an oven tray and add the stock and half of the thyme.
Drizzle generously with olive oil and brush with maple syrup. Season with salt and pepper.
Roast for 30 minutes, re-basting with maple syrup at 10 minute intervals. During the last 10 minutes of cooking time sprinkle with the remaining thyme and finish roasting.
When done – caramelised and soft all the way through – remove from the oven and sprinkle with pistachio nuts.
Serve immediately.
