Sweet Potato Bites
An easy and delicious appetizer that tastes like Thanksgiving but is popular all year long!
Servings: 20 bites
Calories: 78kcal
Equipment
- 1 Baking Sheet
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes (large) sliced into ½-inch thick slices
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon ground pepper
- ¼ cup whole berry cranberry sauce
- ½ cup goat cheese
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 2 tablespoon honey
- Rosemary for garnish chopped
Instructions
- Place the sliced sweet potato rounds on a parchment paper-lined 9 x 13 baking sheet in a single layer.
- Drizzle the sweet potato slices with half of the olive oil, salt, and ground black pepper.
- Place the baking sheet into the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven and flip the sweet potatoes over.
- Drizzle the remainder of the olive oil, teaspoon salt, and pepper over the sweet potatoes.
- Place the baking sheet back into the oven and bake for an additional 10 minutes or until the bottoms are crispy and the slices are slightly golden brown.
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven and top with the cranberry sauce, goat cheese, and walnuts. Finish them off with a drizzle of honey and garnishing with chopped rosemary.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
If you can't find really large sweet potatoes, use enough that you will have about 20 slices total.
The natural sugar in sweet potatoes will cause them to stick to the sheet pan, so always make sure you line it well with parchment paper and not aluminum foil. For extra measure you can even spritz the paper with a little cooking spray.
Don't cut the rounds into thin slices. You want them to hold up well, so you'll want them to be about 1/2 inch thick. Make the slices in uniform thickness by using a kitchen mandolin if you have one.
Even though there are over 10 varieties of sweet potatoes, look for long red or orange skinned sweet potatoes, also known as the "moist" variety. They are sweeter and cook up creamier than some of the other varieties.
Leave the peeling on the potatoes. This also helps keep them together and makes them easier to handle once they are cooked.
Nutrition
Serving: 2 | Calories: 78kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 150mg | Potassium: 94mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 3267IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 18mg | Iron: 0.4mg