Caramelized Oranges, Rosemary & Goat Cheese Sweet Potato Bites
Adapted from the Goat Cheese Toasts with Caramelized Rosemary Oranges recipe on Food 52 https://food52.com/recipes/27344-goat-cheese-toasts-with-caramelized-rosemary-oranges
When hosting a “cutie” inspired baby shower and searching the interwebs for any orange-centric recipes, I stumbled across the above recipe for a toast version of this. I’m certain that would be delicious, too, but I modified the recipe to be spread on sweet potato rounds for a few reasons: 1) because they’re orange colored and thus, fit the theme better, 2) to make the recipe a liiiittle “healthier” and I frickin looove sweet potatoes and 3) to make a nice bite-sized appetizer. I still haven’t gotten the proportions just right, but bear with me.
Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 25 min
Servings: 24-30
Ingredients:
4 sweet potatoes
6 navel oranges, supremed; reserve the juice in a bowl
3 TBSP honey
3 tsp rosemary
8-10 oz goat cheese (depending on package size; amount is approximate)
3 TBSP Greek yogurt
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Peel the sweet potatoes and slice into 1/4 inch thick rounds.
Toss in olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Roast in the oven until crisp on each side, approximately 10-15 minutes each side, flipping halfway through. You want them to be crisp like a crostini, but not burnt.
Peel and supreme the oranges. This is where you cut each segment away from the membranes. Reserve the juice in a bowl to be used for the goat cheese mixture. Squeeze out any extra juice.
Mix the orange segments with the honey, rosemary and olive oil. Place on a cookie sheet lined with aluminum foil.
Mix the goat cheese with the Greek yogurt and 3 TBSP of the accumulated orange juice. Mix until smooth.
After the sweet potato rounds are crisped, remove from oven and let cool slightly.
Preheat the oven to broil.
Broil the oranges about 4 inches from the broiler until lightly caramelized, approximately 4-7 minutes.
While the oranges broil, spread a dollop of goat cheese mixture onto the sweet potato rounds. Try to cover the edges of the rounds so they don’t get too burned under the broiler. Remove the oranges from the oven and broil the rounds with goat cheese for 2-4 minutes until the cheese bubbles and turns lightly brown. Remove from broiler.
Put 2-3 orange segments on each round.
