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Shingled Sweet Potatoes with Maple Syrup and Aleppo Pepper

By Ooni HQ
By Ooni HQ

Sweet potato casserole is a much-loved staple of American Thanksgiving feasts. There, sweet potatoes are usually relegated to a sugary, cloying confection topped with marshmallow goo. Not here. At the Ooni HQ kitchen, we’ve reinterpreted them in this spicy-sweet side dish. Warm maple syrup and cinnamon bring sweetness and warmth,...

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Method

Note

You could also make this dish start to finish in your Ooni oven by baking the sweet potatoes inside. Just wrap them in foil, place them mid-oven and turn them periodically. Conversely, they could be finished under the broiler in your home oven. Either way, this is a great make-ahead dish. You can bake and slice the sweet potatoes up to a day ahead of time, then simply layer, brush with syrup and bake shortly before you’re ready to eat. 

Depending on the size of the sweet potatoes, you might need more or less salt and oil to cover and season them before baking. For reference, the three sweet potatoes we used weighed about 14 ounces (400 grams) in total.

  1. Preheat your conventional oven to 190˚C (375˚F). Thoroughly coat the sweet potatoes with oil and season with salt.

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  2. Roast potatoes in the oven until they’re easily pierced with the tines of a fork (or a cake tester), but not mushy (about 35 minutes). Remove from the oven and let cool. 

  3. Add maple syrup, cinnamon, peppercorns, harissa and Aleppo pepper in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer; hold there for 3 minutes, then turn off the heat. 

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  4. Fire up your Ooni oven. Aim for 345˚C (650˚F) on the center of the stone baking board inside. (You can check the temperature inside quickly and easily using an infrared thermometer. )

  5. Slice the sweet potatoes into shingles about a half centimetre thick. 

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  6. Layer sweet potatoes in a baking dish, overlapping the shingles. Use a pastry brush to glaze them with maple syrup, then sprinkle with sea salt to taste.

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  7. Place in your Ooni oven and cook until the sweet potatoes are caramelised on top, about 5 minutes. 

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  8. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with chopped pecans. Serve and enjoy!

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