Roasted Garlic Sweet Potatoes

Name: Roasted Garlic Sweet Potatoes
Prep time: 1 h 35 min
Cook time: 1 h 35 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps butter (at room temperature); 2 heads garlic; 118 milliliters reduced-fat cream cheese; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 8 servings salt and pepper to taste; 177 milliliters light sour cream; 4 sweet potatoes

Roasted Garlic Sweet Potatoes might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This gluten free, primal, and vegetarian recipe has 194 calories, 3g of protein, and 13g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 8. If you have olive oil, salt and pepper, sweet potatoes, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 35 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

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Prick the sweet potatoes with a fork or the tip of a paring knife; set aside.

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Sweet Potato

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Knife

Cut off the top of the heads of garlic to expose the cloves, trimming about 1/4 inch off of the top of each clove. You may need to trim individual cloves along the sides of each head.

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Clove

Garlic

Brush the cut cloves with the olive oil, then nestle each head into a piece of aluminum foil.

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Olive Oil

Clove

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Aluminum Foil

Place the sweet potatoes and garlic cloves directly on the oven racks.

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Sweet Potato

Whole Garlic Cloves

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Bake for about 1 hour, removing the sweet potatoes once they have softened, and removing the garlic heads once they are tender and nicely browned.

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Sweet Potato

Garlic

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Peel the sweet potatoes, and place into a mixing bowl. Squeeze the individual garlic cloves into the bowl, then add the butter, sour cream, cream cheese, and cayenne pepper. Mash until smooth, then season to taste with salt and pepper. Scrape the mashed potatoes into a 1 1/2 quart baking dish, and return to the oven for about 15 minutes to reheat.

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Salt And Pepper