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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Bacon

Published on October 10, 2019

If you like sweet potatoes, you’ll love these roasted sweet potatoes with bacon! Maple syrup roasted sweet potatoes with salty, crispy bacon and a smattering of goat cheese makes the perfect holiday side dish!

Baaaacon. People LOVE bacon. And by people, I mean me. I can do pretty good eating meatless or skipping meat for most of my meals, but there is one thing that is just irreplaceable to me. BACON. It’s crispy, it’s salty, it’s a little greasy…it’s just like nothing else! It also, happens to pair very well with sweet things. One of the most delicious donuts I’ve ever had was a MAPLE BACON donut. Maple frosting and bits of bacon.

So, I kind of recreated that donut, but in a savory side dish. And without the donut part…..

What do you like to serve for your side dishes with a holiday menu?

Thanksgiving is this weekend here in Canada, and I like to switch things up for my own menu planning, because I love trying new recipes! Holiday dinner at my Mom’s house; however, usually has a few standard dishes that I always look forward to. An Asian-inspired cabbage salad, homemade buns, stuffing, gravy and usually a creamy broccoli salad.

I’m thinking I might try to sneak these sweet potatoes into my Mom’s dinner this weekend….they’re that good!

So, how do you make maple roasted sweet potatoes?

You’ll need about 2 large sweet potatoes (3 lbs) and 4-5 strips of bacon. Along with this you’ll need whole garlic cloves, maple syrup (of course), goat cheese and some seasonings. If you’re not a fan of goat cheese, you can either leave it out or replace it with something you like better.

The dish takes about 40 minutes in total, and you can absolutely prep it before (yay)!

You know what else I like? Being able to do something WHILE something else is cooking. Multitasking is my life. I start off by frying bacon in my Dutch oven, and WHILE this is happening, I cut my sweet potatoes into cubes. Once the bacon is niiiice and crispy, I remove it to a paper-towel lined plate with a slotted spoon.

Remove some of the grease from the pot, leaving about 1/4 cup. Add the sweet potatoes to the remainder, stir to coat, and cook for 10 minutes or so, stirring often. Turn off the heat, add in the maple syrup, garlic cloves, seasonings and salt and pepper. Spread the mixture out on a foil-lined baking sheet and cook for 25 minutes.

Once the potatoes are done cooking, empty it all back into the Dutch oven (or other serving dish), and add the bacon back in, as well as some goat cheese. Serve immediately (or later).

If you’re making this dish ahead of time, leave out the goat cheese until the end. You can re-warm the potatoes in the oven and then add the goat cheese at the end!

Voila! Perfect side dish that everyone will love. Especially the kids. Isn’t it a rule or something that all kids have to like sweet potatoes?

What do you serve roasted sweet potatoes with?

Personally, I think this dish was MEANT to alongside a turkey or a ham. If you’re not into making anything quite that large, it would also go well with a roasted chicken or even oven-baked chicken thighs. Try this amazing roasted chicken recipe that I made a few months ago!

If you’re a reader from Canada, I’ll leave you here with a Happy Thanksgiving!!! If not, happy weekend 😉

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