These Cinnamon Sugar Sweet Potato Peels are a fun dessert idea! Eat them as is, crumble over ice cream or yogurt or drizzle with chocolate for a sweet treat!
Hi friends!
It’s time for another month of The Recipe Redux! This month’s theme was Easy Ways To Reduce Food Waste and I gotta say I’m pretty pumped about this one! I actually don’t usually peel my sweet potatoes unless I’m using them in a pureed recipe like this Curried Sweet Potato Soup. The skin doesn’t really bother me and it’s full of fiber and nutrients like potassium.
However, I know a lot of people don’t like the texture of the skin so they do peel them. Today’s recipe is a fun way to transform those peels into a sweet, crunchy treat that’s perfect for dessert!
Cinnamon Sugar Sweet Potato Peels
A couple weeks ago I was looking through the latest issue of Cooking Light and there was a quick tip in there to roast your root vegetable peels and add them to soups and salads for some extra crunch. I was intrigued by the idea so for this month’s theme, I decided to try something similar with a dessert twist!
These really couldn’t be any easier. Just peel your sweet potatoes, toss with a little oil, cinnamon and sugar and stick them in the oven for about 10 minutes. Then enjoy them as is for a crunchy treat, drizzle them with chocolate or add them to your bowl of ice cream or yogurt! I got about 12 long peels per sweet potato and broke them in half before roasting so each sweet potato gives you about 24 crunchy peels.
I don’t usually measure anything when I make these but here are some measurements to give you a starting point:
Cinnamon Sugar Sweet Potato Peels
These Cinnamon Sugar Sweet Potato Peels are a fun dessert idea! Eat them as is, crumble over ice cream or yogurt or drizzle with chocolate for a sweet treat!
Ingredients
- 2 medium large sweet potatoes
- 3/4 - 1 tsp oil
- 1/4 - 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- melted chocolate chips for drizzling (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Wash and scrub sweet potatoes to clean. Dry very well.
- Peel sweet potatoes lengthwise (I got about 12 long peels per sweet potato).
- Break each peel in half and place on a foil-lined baking sheet.
- Drizzle with oil and use hands to toss to coat and ensure all pieces get covered. You want them to be coated but don't use too much oil or they won't crisp up!
- Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and mix with your hands to coat evenly.
- Spread into a single layer on the baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes.
- Stir and bake 2 min more.
- Stir again and continue to bake 1-2 minutes at a time until desired doneness is reached. This will depend on your oven. For mine, 9 minutes was perfect!
- Let cool and enjoy! Drizzle with chocolate if desired.
That’s all there is to it!
You could also try this with white potatoes- skip the cinnamon and sugar, dip half of each peel in chocolate and sprinkle with sea salt! Kinda like a chocolate dipped potato chip I’d imagine…although I haven’t tried that version yet myself.
Like this idea? Pin it for later or share with friends! An easy way to reduce a bit of food waste.
Let’s chat:
How do you reduce food waste in your house?
Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
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I’ve never seen swirl shapes with sweet potatoes! I love how versatile they are.. you can have them sweet or savory, but I have a huge sweet tooth, so I prefer sweet. These look super tasty!
What a FUN idea! Love that you’re using the peels for dessert.
I need to do this. I usually just roast and eat the peel of any potato that Im using but I need to try seasoning them like this! Yummy! and drizzled with toppings! Dessert and no waste
This sounds delicious and the perfect treat for repurposing those sweet potato peels! We try to save our vegetable scraps to make veggie broth but it works better with white potato peels than sweet potato peels. Will definitely be trying this recipe!
Love this fun idea! I would love to top my daily yogurt bowl with some of these!
Yum! I’m the crazy one in the family that loves peels of anything – potatoes, apples, etc… sounds DELICIOUS!
So fun! Love adding the drizzle of chocolate too! Yum!
I eat white potato skin all the time, but never thought to use sweet potato skins! What a cool idea!
You know, I do this with regular potato peels all the time, but why have I never thought to do it with sweet potatoes? AND CHOCOLATE! Pinning! 🙂
What a great idea! And chocolate… YUM. Pinned this!
I take off peel of any citrus fruit and sit in water overnight and either drink it next day or add to smoothies.
great idea!
This is such a genius idea! :]! Great way to reduce food waste!
Yum! This sounds delicious and a great way to use up peels.