Thai Vegan Sweet Potato Recipe (2024)

Smothered in a zesty ginger tahini sauce, this Thai-style vegan sweet potato recipe is a simple vegan dinner that’s full of flavor.

Do you have a cookbook collection?In all honesty, the vast array of cookbooks in this world sometimes overwhelms me. There can only be so many recipes, right? Butthe more I’ve read, the more I realize that each cookbook is a unique perspective based on a one-of-a kindindividual — an actual person, not an anonymous faceless author who sits in a sterile test kitchen. Ina Garten is a real person, and so is Giada De Laurentiis, and that person who wrote The Joy of Cooking.Each person’s story and method for creatingrecipes is equally valid. So the more cookbooks the better, not the other way around! Keep reading for this vegan sweet potato recipe, which is from — you guessed it — another cookbook! It’s Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking.

About the book: Everyday Cooking

While we were in Portlandrecently, we had the pleasure of spending time withdear friends Dana and John, the sweet minds behind the website Minimalist Baker.They’re the type of people where you can laugh and eat loads of Mexican food with and then turn around and be completely vulnerable and real. I was so inspired to speak with Dana about some health issues that caused a recent struggle with hair loss (which she shared about here on the Jess Lively podcast),and share about some of my own health struggles with cancer.

And speaking of real life people who write books, Dana has just written a fantastic one: a cookbook calledEveryday Cooking. All the recipes are beautifully shot and plant-based / vegan. We love that her approach to eating is similar to ours: she’s not 100% vegan, but shares plant-based recipes to inspire eating more vegetables and follows this approach most of the time (which is what we’re all about too).

This easy baked vegan sweet potato recipe

Picking up the book, I immediately gravitated towards this Thai-style vegan sweet potato recipe. And the verdict after making it? Fantastically delicious.Thetahini ginger sauce and spiced chickpeas balance the sweetness of the potatoes, and topped off with a chili garlic sauce and cilantro, it became an instant household favorite.

Now, what makes this baked sweet potato recipe easy? This recipe has a great simple hack to decreasing the time to make a baked sweet potato in the oven. What’s that, you say? Slice the sweet potato in half instead of baking it whole! Slicing the sweet potato in half cuts down on the baking time: instead of about 45 to 60 minutes, you can cook it in about 25 to 30 minutes! It’s a great time saver, and we rarely bake sweet potatoes whole anymore. One difference if you slice the sweet potato in half instead of baking whole: you’ll have to rub them with a bit of olive oil. That’s a small consolation for the time saved, in our opinion!

As you look at the ingredients in this vegan sweet potato recipe, you might think it’s a long list. However, most of the ingredients are spices or things that are easy to stock in your pantry. While the sweet potato bakes, saute the spiced chickpeas and mix up the tahini drizzle. The tahini sauce would be simple to mix up in advance as well.

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Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking

More sweet potato recipes

As you can see, we’re kinda sweet potato obsessed! Outside of this vegan sweet potato recipe, here are some of our favorite sweet potato recipes:

• Baked Sweet Potato with Moroccan Lentils
• Healthy Loaded Sweet Potato Rounds
• Poached Eggs and Potatoes
• Sweet Potato Pizza with Brie
• Moroccan Stew with Chickpeas & Sweet Potatoes
• Sweet Potatoes with Thai Peanut Butter Sauce
• Baked Sweet Potatoes with Goat Cheese & Lentils
• Broccoli Cheese Baked Sweet Potatoes
• Sweet Potato Hash Browns
• Best Instant Pot Sweet Potato Recipe
• The Trick for Crispy Sweet Potato Fries
• All-Star Sweet Potato Chili
• Loaded Sweet Potato Skins
• Vegan Sweet Potato Soup with Harissa

This recipe is…

This Thai-style easy baked sweet potato recipe is vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, and dairy-free.

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