Roasted Spiralized Sweet Potatoes with Walnuts and Feta #recipe from Molly MacRae

 

One of my sisters gave me a spiralizer for my birthday some years ago. It’s a lot of fun but the kind of kitchen gadget that, when shoved to the back of a cupboard, gets forgotten. That’s why I was glad to come across this recipe. Maybe I’ll find a more convenient place to store the spiralizer and use it more often.

If you don’t have a spiralizer, you can use a mandoline or V-slicer fitted with a 1/8-inch julienne attachment. Position the sweet potatoes on the mandoline vertically so the noodles are as long as possible.

These Sweet potato noodles roast fairly quickly. They’re tender without being mushy and, with the addition of feta and walnuts, they make a tasty side dish. They were excellent leftover for lunch the next day, too. When I make them again, I might add a bit of cumin or coriander (or both) along with the salt and pepper. I’ll also see how the noodles roast in the air fryer.

Sweet potatoes are good and so good for you!

 

Roasted Spiralized Sweet Potatoes

Adapted from The Complete Diabetes Cookbook by America’s Test Kitchen

Serves 6

 

Ingredients

2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled

2 tablespoons olive oil, divided

Salt and pepper

1/4 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped coarse

1/4 cup feta cheese, crumbled

2 tablespoons fresh parsley

 

Directions

Adjust an oven rack to the middle position. Heat the oven to 450 degrees F.

Spiralize the peeled sweet potatoes into 1/8-inch noodles, then cut the noodles into 12-inch lengths (I missed a few when I was lopping them into 12-inch lengths and ended up with some longer than my arm.) The spiralizer leaves behind a small cylinder of whatever vegetable you're spiralizing. I chopped those cores and added them to the noodles.

Toss the noodles with 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Spread on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast until the noodles are just tender, 12-15 minutes, stirring once halfway through roasting.

Season the noodles with more pepper to taste. Sprinkle walnuts, feta, and parsley over the top, then drizzle with the remaining tablespoon of olive oil.

 

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The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Instagram or Bluesky.