Sweet Taters Maple Chipotle Sauce |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 10 Minutes |
Ready In: 10 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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Nice zippy side dish or even good for lunch. Very healthy-love sweet potatoes and the sauce is an added bonus. Ingredients:
for the sweet potatoes |
5-6 medium sweet potatoes |
olive oil |
chipotle powder |
salt & pepper |
for the chipotle-maple sauce |
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped |
1/4 yellow onion, small dice |
1 large shallot, finely chopped |
1/2 stick of butter |
1 tbsp + 1 tsp flour |
enough veg stock to thin roux (see below) |
5-6 seeded and chopped canned-in-adobo-sauce chipotles |
5-7 teaspoons of adobo sauce (from item above) |
1/4-1/3 cup of maple syrup |
salt |
1/2 stick of butter for mounting sauce |
Directions:
1. Oven at 400 F.
2. Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into 2-inch wedges.
3. Toss them in olive oil, salt, black pepper, and a bit of chipotle powder.
4. (Don't overdo this - you only want a little heat on the potatoes themselves.)
5. Liberally oil a baking sheet, and lay the potatoes out in a single layer. Roast for 20-30 minutes, or until soft inside and crispy on the edges. Serve warm.
6. For the Chipotle-Maple Sauce:
7. 0. drain chipotles, reserving adobo sauce
8. remove stem tops of 5-6 chipotles then seed and chop into pleasantly
9. sized (small) pieces
10. chop all other veg
11. melt butter over med heat
12. saute onions, garlic, shallots until slightly soft then reduce heat
13. slightly and carefully brown the veg taking care not to:
14. - burn the butter or garlic
15. when veg starts to go brown, add flour and stir, reduce heat and cook to a dirty blonde roux
16. add 5 teaspoons of adobo sauce and stir
17. add enough veg stock to start to thin roux, then thin to desired
18. consistency
19. stir in maple syrup
20. cook for 5-7 minutes on low then strain to get rid of all veg bits
21. cook on low for another 5 minutes just to make sure flour is cooked
22. - at this point: taste and adjust seasoning including adobo for heat level
23. remembering that actual chipotles will be going in just before serving.
24. The addition of the chipotles will definitely make the heat level go UP .
25. Adjust for sweetness, if you wish.
26. You can hold the sauce on either super low simmer or on top of a warming area.
27. To finish the sauce:
28. bring sauce to heat over medium heat then take off heat to stir in 1/2
29. stick of butter taking care not to break the sauce.
30. You can add more butter if you want but 1/2 stick should make it glossy...
31. add the chopped chipotles
32. taste and adjust seasoning...a bit of salt at this point is probably
33. good....
34. Sauce should be served warm not blazingly hot.
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