SWEET POTATO BRIE BITES
Sweet Potato Brie Bites are easy to make, delish and a crowd pleasing appetizer or starter. Swap the brie with cream cheese, halloumi, paneer, goat cheese, feta, etc.
Ingredients
- 550 g sweet potatoes
- 150 g brie
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper coarsely ground
- ¼ cup honey
- ½ tsp red chilli flakes
- ¼ cup dried cranberries
- ¼ cup walnuts toasted and roughly chopped
- some fresh thyme
Instructions
PREHEAT THE OVEN
- Preheat the oven to 200℃.
- Also allow the baking tray to become hot in the oven.
- When you place the sweet potato slices on the hot tray, it will sear them a bit.
- So yes, the tray is NOT lined.
PREPARE THE SWEET POTATO SLICES
- Wash the sweet potatoes thoroughly if you are baking them with the skin.
- Peel the sweet potatoes if you are baking them without the skin.
- Trim the ends and cut ½ inch thick slices.
- Put the slices in a mixing bowl.
- Add olive oil, salt and pepper. Mix the slices well so they get coated with the oil.
BAKE THE SWEET POTATO SLICES
- Take the hot tray out of the oven. Lightly coat it with some olive oil using a pastry brush.
- Arrange the slices in the tray.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Remove the tray from the oven and flip the slices.
- Bake for 10 minutes or till the sweet potato slices are done. Insert a fork in the middle of one of the slices. It should go in easily.
- While the sweet potato slices are baking, cut the brie cheese into small cubes.
- Remove the tray from the oven.
- Arrange about 3 small cubes of brie on each slice. If the slices are small then 2 will be enough.
- Return the tray to the oven and allow the brie to melt a bit. This will take about 3-4 minutes. You want it melt a bit and not completely.
FINAL PREPARATION
- While the brie is melting, heat the honey for 15 seconds or a bit more. Make sure you use a heatproof bowl.
- Remove the tray from the oven. The brie will have melted a bit.
- Transfer the sweet potato slices to your serving board or plate.
- Top them with the toasted walnuts.
- Add dried cranberries.
- Drizzle honey over the slices.
- Top with some fresh thyme and red chilli flakes.
- Serve while still hot.
Notes
- Use any nuts of your choice.
- Replace honey with maple syrup.
- Use any dried fruit of your choice.
- You can bake the sweet potato slices and keep them in the fridge. When you bake them again with the brie they will warm up.
- Don't over bake the sweet potato slices.