Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Walnuts #ComeBackNew
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my Disclosure and Privacy Policy.
Inspired by my recent media trip with Princess Cruises, last week I shared with you a recipe for Bacon Spinach Salad from a cookbook I received on the Caribbean Princess ship. After experiencing some amazing food and service on board, I wanted to try to a few recipes from the Princess Cruises chefs. While a lot of dishes inspired by their ports of call are in Courses: A Culinary Journey
, I wanted to find a couple of top notch recipes for Thanksgiving dinner. In the back of the cookbook, in a small section filled with lots of supporting recipes I spotted Glazed Sweet Potatoes.
My mom has always made room for some baked sweet potatoes on our Thanksgiving buffet, but she has always served them with butter and pepper. What a great way to spice things up a bit, literally and figuratively with this new recipe! I decided to jazz them up a bit with some toasted walnuts. Typically pecans are my nut of choice, but walnuts are a perfect alternative when you’ve realized you are out of pecans.
Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Walnuts
Ingredients
- 3 to 4 larger sweet potatoes
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon mustard powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne powder
- 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
- salt and pepper
- toasted walnuts if desired
Instructions
-
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
-
Wash sweet potatoes and place on baking tray without pricking or oiling the potatoes.
-
Bake just until cooked, approximately 50 minutes. (You don't want to over cook them!) Cool.
-
Peel sweet potatoes and cut into medium cubes.
-
In large saute pan, heat remain ingredients (except salt and pepper) together to form a light caramel.
-
Add potatoes and brown together. Season with salt and pepper and top with toasted nuts if desired. Serve with a drizzle of sauce.
I did cut down the cayenne powder to about 1/8 teaspoon for my own personal tastes, and I found these potatoes to have just the right amount of kick for my taste buds. The recipe states to drizzle the leftover sauces over the top, but I didn’t have any sauce left after I sauteed my potatoes. I would recommend reserving some of the sauce before adding your sweet potatoes or even browning the sweet potatoes in butter and adding the sauce after. Either way, they are still absolutely delicious! I also baked my sweet potatoes one day and finished off the recipe the following day to save time.
If you love to try new foods or simply love a delicious meal, a cruise is a fantastic way to experience great cuisine at a very affordable price!
If you are new to cruising or just curious about what Princess Cruises has to offer, check out this new to cruising information regarding their line of cruise ships. You’ll variety of destination options worldwide!
Watch for more updates regarding our Princess Cruise experience coming soon.
Do you like to serve sweet potatoes for your Thanksgiving meal?
A big thank you to Princess Cruises for inviting us on board their beautiful ship during a media trip. All thoughts are my own.
This sounds wonderful. I love sweet potatoes but I’m not a big fan of the traditional marshmallow-laden recipe that is so often part of Thanksgiving meals. I will try this!
We love sweet potatoes! This looks like a delicious recipe – will have to try it!
We do, I am a big fan of sweet potatoes! They are so yummy and healthy!
Wow! I hope someone brings a dish like that to Thanksgiving! I just move my place card over to the front of that and claim it as mine!
I love sweet potatoes! These look so good!
Sweet potatoes are a must for Thanksgiving here! These look amazing, I’ll definitely be trying them!
These look great! We’re big fans of sweet potatoes. We do a traditional sweet potato casserole and a savory mashed sweet potato that has Caramelized onions parm cheese in it! So good!
We always have sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving, but I love the new twist on these! They look delicious!
I’ve never tried it with walnuts but I love sweet potato dishes! I’ll have to try it this way! It looks delicious! Can’t wait to hear more about your cruise!
I made this for Thanksgiving and it was wonderful! I usually use pecans but tried walnuts and loved it.
So happy to hear that! I love the combination of the spices in the glaze and the nuts are really a nice addition, I think.
The glazed sweet potatoes look so good! I bet their a great twist compared to regular sweet potatoes for the holidays!
sounds and looks yummy
We usually have a sweet potato casserole for the holidays but it tastes more like a dessert and I’m not to fond of it. I do like baked sweet potatoes and with the added nuts would really bump it up. Thanks for the idea.
Looks yummy! I love sweet potatoes
Sweet potatoes are standard for Thanksgiving, but typically done like a baked potato in foil. This is way to good to pass up, it looks scrumptious and I want to try it!