Spiralized Sweet Potatoes

Last week my family, who was in town, made a simple dinner at my aunt's one night. She wanted to do sweet potato and yam spears in the oven and I've been wanting to try to spiralize them so I stole a sweet potato and started experimenting. I had bought a spiralizer back in September before I moved but the only thing I've made so far with is is spiralized zucchini in place of spaghetti noodles, which I do quite often actually. I also experimented with a carrot once, but since the carrot is such a hard veggie, it was a little difficult. My spiralizer is the Paderno that I found on Amazon but I'm sure you can find them elsewhere too, or you can use a veggie peeler.

I had to watch a video online to figure out what blade I needed to use and once I figured that out, it was super easy. I added a 21-spice blend my aunt had bought from Costco. It doesn't have salt in it and I loved the flavor-guess I'll be making a trip out to Costco soon! This was just an experiment but it actually turned out really flavorful. They spiralizer made the sweet potatoes into shoe strings and with the spice blend, it turned out really yummy. I bought some yams at the store yesterday so I'll be trying those soon to see if they turn out as good as the sweet potato.

Spiralized Sweet Potatoes (3-5 servings)

1 1/2 sweet potatoes
1-2 tbsp olive oil, more as needed
21-spice blend, or whatever seasoning you have on hand

Use the number 3 blade, which is the smallest hole-blade to spiralize the sweet potatoes.

Heat oil in large skillet on the stove over med-high. Once the oil is hot, add the spiralized sweet potatoes. Using tongs, toss the sweet potatoes until sweet potatoes start turning brown and crisping up. Add the seasonings as you cook the sweet potatoes. Enjoy!




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