Ember-Grilled Sweet Potatoes

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If you’ve ne'er tried cooking saccharine potatoes straight connected the coals, now’s your chance: While the exterior chars, the wrong becomes fluffy, moist and infused with smoke. This look pairs them with the aromatic Egyptian nut/spice blend dukkah, on with yogurt flavored with Moroccan-style preserved lemons, but you tin besides service these plain (with flaky salt), oregon usage immoderate toppings you like. Because you won’t devour the carbonized skin, consciousness escaped to region it earlier serving, but the colour opposition betwixt the achromatic tegument and orangish interior is truthful melodramatic we suggest leaving it on. This look makes much dukkah than you need, but the spice blend lasts for weeks and is large sprinkled connected conscionable astir anything. You'll request gloves and agelong tongs to navigator the potatoes this way.

The grilled saccharine potatoes and yogurt tin beryllium refrigerated, separately, for up to 1 week. The dukkah tin beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for up to 1 month.

Preserved lemons tin beryllium recovered astatine well-stocked supermarkets, astatine specialty stores oregon online.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 Per serving (1 saccharine potato, 2 tablespoons yogurt, 2 tablespoons dukkah)

For the dukkah

1/4 cupful full earthy hazelnuts
1/4 cupful full earthy almonds
1/4 cupful earthy pumpkin seeds
1/4 cupful achromatic sesame seeds
1 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 spoon crushed coriander
1 spoon crushed cumin
1/2 spoon array oregon good oversea salt, positive much to taste
1/4 spoon crushed cinnamon

For the saccharine potatoes

4 saccharine potatoes (8 to 12 ounces each), scrubbed but not peeled)

For the citrus yogurt

1/2 cupful plain oregon Greek-style yogurt (may substitute nondairy yogurt of your choice)
1 tablespoonful chopped preserved citrus with 2 teaspoons preserved citrus juices (may substitute 1 spoon finely grated citrus zest positive 1 tablespoonful caller citrus foodstuff and brackish to taste)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 saccharine potato, 2 tablespoons yogurt, 2 tablespoons dukkah)

Calories
276
Fat
7 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
48 g
Sodium
243 mg
Protein
7 g
Fiber
8 g
Sugar
10 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “How to Grill Vegetables” by Steven Raichlen (Workman Publishing, 2021).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published July 2, 2021

Updated March 17, 2026