Baked Sweet Potatoes with Cinnamon

 

Baked Sweet Potatoes with Cinnamon

Batata Doce Assada no Forno

Serves:  4

INGREDIENTS:

1kg (about 6)        sweet potatoes washed and quartered or sliced

4                             cinnamon sticks

50g                         butter or margarine cut into blocks

15ml                      salt

15ml                      garlic flakes

45ml                      olive oil

5ml                        white pepper

60ml                     brown sugar

 Method:

Place the sweet potatoes in a roasting pan.  Add the cinnamon sticks, butter or margarine, salt and garlic.  Drizzle with the olive oil and season with white pepper.

Cover with foil and bake for approximately 40 minutes.

Remove the pan from the oven and remove the foil.

Sprinkle the brown sugar over the sweet potatoes and return to the oven for 10 minutes, or until the sweet potatoes are soft.

Serving Suggestion:

Wonderful as an accompaniment to roasts!

 

What makes African cuisine so unique and special ? It has to be the fact that Africa as a continent is comprised of many different cultures. During colonization an influx of cultures collided. Africa is like a mixing pot of simmering flavours. The Portuguese influenced seafood dishes immensely. As soon as the Portuguese set foot upon the shores of Southern Africa an infusion of flavours mixed.The deep orange colour and tantalizing fragrance makes one recognize an Afro infused Portuguese dish.

 

A new kind of cuisine was born. The rich flavour of the sea infused with the majestic flavours of spices, wine and indigenous ways of cooking. Take a journey with me through this blog and open your mind, heart and most importantly your palate to the wide variety of Portu-African cuisine.