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Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Cashew Butter Sauce

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Use as many medium to large sweet potatoes as you need, allowing one whole or half sweet potato per serving. To bake, preheat the oven to 375°F. Wrap each potato in foil and place on the oven rack; bake for about 40 minutes, or until easily pierced with a knife. To microwave, allow 2 minutes per medium potato and 3 minutes per large. Test with a knife; if still too firm, cook an additional 1 minute per potato until done.

    Step 2

    Leaving the sweet potatoes in their jackets, cut each in half, smash lightly with a potato masher, and serve hot with freshly made Cashew Butter Sauce (page 216).

Reprinted with permission from Vegan Express: Featuring 160 Recipes for Quick, Delicious, and Healthy Meals by Nava Atlas. Copyright © 2008 by Nava Atlas. Excerpted by permission of Broadway, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Nava Atlas is the author of nine cookbooks, including The Vegetarian Family Cookbook, The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet, and Vegetarian Soups for All Seasons. She lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York with her husband and two teenage sons (all vegans).
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