Quick Lunch: Sweet Potato with Maple-Pecan-Shallot Butter

Okay, so there's no protein to tide you over until dinner... But a baked sweet potato is one of our favorite quick, vegetarian meals. And the jazzed-up butter makes it so much more interesting.

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The butter is a simple mixture of chopped pecans, shallots, and maple syrup—such a great combination of salty and sweet. We even think a little chopped bacon on top would fit right in and make it more filling.

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Baked Sweet Potatoes, with Maple-Pecan-Shallot Butter, from Fine Cooking

(Image: Scott Phillips for Fine Cooking)

Comments (5)

Mmm, I love a sweet potato for lunch. I like to add a little salad of feta, red onion, olive oil, kalamata olives and red pepper flakes. The flavors are intense but just my style.

posted by Mercy Street on October 14th 2008 at 7:23am
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I like to put leftover chili or black beans on my sweet potatoes

posted by 2T on October 14th 2008 at 7:43am
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Switzerland just kills me -- yesterday I bought 2 (count 'em 2!!) sweet potatoes ('cos everything comes in itty bitty portions), and they cost (drumroll please....)....

$10!!!

-and no, they weren't even organic (actually, they were probably genetically modified, since Switzerland leads the way on GM foods).

posted by mschatelaine on October 14th 2008 at 8:21am
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Ouch.

posted by lizzapearl on October 14th 2008 at 10:00am
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One of my favorite restaurants changed owners and now I can't get the baked sweet potato with some kind of hot pepper that was super fabulous

posted by Kate (NC) on October 14th 2008 at 12:35pm
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