The holidays are just around the corner and this makes for a delicious and HEALTHY side dish option for those of you in charge of side dishes this holiday season.
This is a Cider-Glazed Sweet Potato & Apple Bake. It packs all the deliciousness of a traditional side dish with half the calories and guilt.
Ingredients
• 2 large sweet potatoes (1 3/4 - 2 lbs), peeled and sliced thinly, about 1/8" - 1/4" thick
• 2 large or 3 medium granny smith apples, cored, peeled and sliced to 1/4"thick (you want the apples to be slightly thicker than the potatoes because they'll cook faster)
• 1 cup fresh apple cider or Simply Apple juice
Glaze:
• 2 Tbs butter
• 2 Tbs whole wheat pastry flour or regular whole wheat flour
• 3 Tbs maple syrup
• 1/16 tsp salt
Instructions
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8X8 baking dish with olive oil or coconut oil cooking spray.
2. Before you start layering your sweet potatoes and apples in your dish, make a layer in the bottom of your dish with your largest pieces of sweet potato (the ones that look the nicest) now take them out and set them aside, they will be your top layer.
3. Layer Sweet Potatoes and Apples so that you have 4 layers of potatoes and 3 layers of apples, ending with the nicest sweet potatoes as your top layer. The layers might be slightly higher than your dish, thats ok they cook down.
4. Set Dish aside and make glaze
5. In a small sauce pot, melt the butter. Once melted, whisk in the flour, letting the flour cook for a minute or two. Whisk in the cider, salt and maple syrup, continue cooking until thickened. Turn off heat. Carefully spoon all of the sauce over the potatoes and into the crevices between. Cover tightly with a piece of foil sprayed with cooking spray and bake in the oven for 1 hour.
6. Raise the oven temp to 450 degrees. Once oven has heated to that temperature, remove the foil from your pan and baste with the sauce in the pan. Bake an additional 15 minutes or until potatoes are tender and nicely browned, basting one or two more times during cooking.
7. Remove from oven, cut into 9 squares and serve.
21 Day Fix Break Down
1 Yellow
1/2 purple
1 Tsp1Tsp Maple Syrup
I'd love to know what you think of this dish, leave me a comment below :-D Happy Holidays!
xoxo,
Lauren
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