Baked Sweet Potato
Several years ago when we had been on a family trip to Ooty, we bought several spices. Some we definitely had heard off and some that we had never used. Star anise was one of them we had never used, the aroma is amazing. We had no idea what to use it for, so my mom and I made star anise spiced sweet potato. We had deep fried it, this is something I really don’t like. So I try to bake everything possible, rather than deep frying. This recipe is a mix of a few recipes that I’ve made over the past few years. Winter time here Sweet Potato is available in plenty and it tastes amazing just boiled as well.
Ingredients
- 500-600 grams of peeled and diced sweet potato
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 2 ground star anise
- 1/2 cup of diced fresh thyme
Instructions
Steps to make Baked Sweet Potato
- Preheat oven to 230C for a minimum of 20 minutes
- Dice 500-600 grams of peeled sweet potato
- In a rectangular baking dish add a tablespoon of olive oil
- Add the sweet potato on the dish
- Add 2 tablespoon more olive oil
- Add 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- Add 2 ground star anise
- Next add 1/2 cup of diced thyme, toss all the ingredients in the dish
- Sprinkle salt per taste on top
- In your oven, select only the top heating element mode
- Keep the dish in the middle row, select only the top heating element mode
- Roast in the oven for 30-45 minutes
- Bring the dish out every 10 minutes and toss all the ingredients around, this helps in roasting them uniformly
- Take them out of the dish, toss them and then serve
- Add juice of a lemon before serving