comment icon 9 more comments Like this Roasted Sweet Potato Salad. I’m going to say it’s my best idea all week! A fresh, sweet, and mildly spicy potato salad that’s also vegan?! Yes, please! Runner up for best idea of the week would be evacuating my classroom yesterday afternoon and moving 24 fourth graders, 24 water bottles and 1 large fan into the computer lab for an impromptu Read Aloud. On the other hand, sometimes my ideas are not so amazing. And maybe it will take a 100 degree day and 8 blotchy mosquito bites to prove to me that a sushi picnic at Lake Calhoun is a miserable idea. Or it might take a severely red heat rash to convince my husband that it would be a life-changing, life-saving idea to install air conditioning in both his car and our home. After more than a year of waiting. And extreme sweating. PTL. And it definitely takes the right kind of potato salad to make me realize that it’s ok to eat something warm on a hot day. I simply have no patience for chill time when there are sweet potatoes, black beans, red peppers, cilantro, and lime involved. And you really shouldn’t wait. This is a top-notch vegan (applause) salad, whether you serve it warm or cold, at the lake or in the comfortable air conditioning, as a double or single serving. YUM. You were wondering how the day in the classroom sauna went? Well, considering only one student threw up after recess, I’d say things went well… 5 from 3 reviews
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title: “Roasted Sweet Potato Salad Recipe” ShowToc: true date: “2024-11-07” author: “Samantha Grace”
Potato Salad … with Sweet Potatoes!
This sweet potato salad puts ‘potato salad’ in a whole new light! There’s texture and crunch from red peppers and green onions, black beans add heartiness, corn adds sweetness and juiciness, and there’s the fresh pop of cilantro. Feel free to work in avocado, red onion, or other favorites. You can even use this roasted sweet potato salad as a filling for enchiladas, tacos, or wraps. Everything is tossed with a honey Dijon mustard sauce that’s sweet, tangy, and bright with a little bit of a kick from the cayenne I used, but it’s optional. The sweet potato salad can be served warm, at room temp, or chilled, and it gets better the day after making it because the flavors marry! Because of that, it’s not only great to make ahead for work week (or school) lunches meal prep style.
Sweet Potato Salad Ingredients
For this sweet potato potato salad recipe, you’ll need the following ingredients:
Sweet potatoes Olive oil Salt and pepper Black beans Green onions Bell pepper Corn Fresh cilantro Honey Dijon mustard Lemon juice Cayenne pepper
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Sweet Potato Salad
Making potato salad with sweet potatoes is just as easy as making traditional potato salad. Here’s an overview of the recipe steps: Roast the sweet potatoes alongside whatever else you have roasting in the oven that day, and when they’re done you can assemble the salad, cover it with saranwrap and let it just hang out til you’re ready for the big meal. I have readers who tell me they make this every year for Thanksgiving and it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it. This recipe was originally posted in 2015.
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