Maple candy potato salad with whipped tahini

June 10, 2025

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Channelling my inside Yotam Ottolenghi – maple-roasted candy potato on a fluffy cloud of whipped tahini, topped with crispy spiced chickpeas and a bathe of chopped pistachios. That is the candy potato model of the roasted carrots recipe I shared final yr. Ridiculously good!

Maple sweet potato salad with whipped tahini

Maple roasted candy potato salad with whipped tahini

I’m a shameless Yotam Ottolenghi tragic. He’s the explanation I began seeing greens as greater than only a dietary checkbox – he truly made me need to make them and allow them to take centre stage. I particularly love the daring Center Japanese and Mediterranean flavours in his early cookbooks, Jerusalem and Loads.

To be sincere, I discover a few of his recipes name for components I wrestle to seek out so I don’t make as many as I need, however I at all times come away impressed. Right now’s dish is my Ottolenghi-esque creation: maple-roasted candy potato with crispy chickpeas on a cloud of tahini enriched garlic yoghurt sauce, completed with spicy maple drizzle which retains life attention-grabbing and a bathe of pistachios.

Sure, it appears like so much (Ottolenghi, keep in mind! 😃). However simple to make (it’s me, keep in mind!).

The whipped tahini yogurt sauce

Additionally, relaxation assured, although I’ve known as the sauce a whipped tahini yogurt sauce which could conjure up visions of getting to lug your stand mixer out – relaxation assured, that’s not the case. Only a handheld whisk is all you want. 🙂 You can be amazed the way it transforms from a typical yogurt sauce texture right into a billowy, whipped cream-like texture. It’s marvellous, and addictive, and you’ll perceive why I’ve used this sauce a number of occasions beforehand, like in this recipe and this recipe.

Substances

Right here’s what you’ll want to make this candy potato salad.

1. Maple roasted candy potato

You don’t want a lot maple syrup to roast candy potatoes, only a gentle coating. In reality, for those who use an excessive amount of, it by no means caramelises, it makes the floor soggy.

Candy potato – Attempt to decide on potatoes which might be formed just like the above, round 6cm / 2.5″ vast, so you’ll be able to simply reduce them into acceptable dimension wedges, as pictured. Nonetheless, be happy to unleash the inventive demon inside and reduce different shapes as a substitute – like discs, thick half moons and even cubes (you insurgent, you!).
Maple syrup – I really like the maple flavour on this dish however you’ll be able to substitute with honey as a substitute. (PS For those who use synthetic maple syrup somewhat than the true stuff, the maple flavour is generally gone as soon as cooked).

2. Whipped tahini YOGURT SAUCE

This can be a easy yogurt sauce that’s enriched with a little bit of tahini, with a touch of garlic and balanced with tang from lemon, with a texture like whipped cream – therefore the title. It’s the identical sauce I exploit for my Center Japanese model Candy Potato Steaks and Inexperienced Beans with a Mountain of Panko (you’ll perceive the odd title while you see the images).

Plain yoghurt – Not sweetened, and never flavoured. Common yogurt or Greek yogurt.
Tahini – Paste made with sesame seeds. Often discovered within the well being meals aisle at grocery shops. Use hulled tahini (extra widespread), not un-hulled which is darker and extra bitter. The jar label will specify which it’s. Use Chinese language sesame paste as a sub if in case you have leftovers from different recipes I’ve shared, like this one or this one!
Lemon – The tang to steadiness the flavour.
Garlic – Use a garlic crusher, or if you would like a very easy sauce, finely grate it utilizing a microplane.

3. CRISPY CHICKPEAS

Not important – I’d completely make this recipe with out – however positively provides fabulous further textural curiosity and pops of flavour. Plus, they cook dinner within the oven similtaneously the candy potato, so why wouldn’t you? 🙂

4. spicy maple sauce

Right here’s what you want for the spicy maple sauce that’s drizzled over the roasted candy potatoes:

I do know this sauce seems to be too easy to have sufficient flavour, nevertheless it does! Firstly, this sauce is simply an accent somewhat than major flavour. Secondly, sriracha just isn’t made with simply pureed chilli, it’s bought different issues in it as properly – garlic, vinegar, salt, sugar.

Spice stage – low gentle. There’s just one tablespoon of sriracha throughout this complete dish, and the sweetness from the maple syrup additionally dials down the spiciness.

No spice possibility – Substitute the sriracha with equal components ketchup and apple cider vinegar plus a small garlic clove finely grated.

The best way to make this Candy Potato Salad

This recipe has a pleasant circulate to it as a result of the candy potatoes and chickpeas cook dinner on the identical time within the oven, and whereas they’re roasting you simply make the sauces. Simple!

Toss candy potato with oil, salt, pepper and maple syrup on a paper lined tray. The paper will cease maple syrup caramelised edges from sticking to the tray and ripping off the candy potato (it’s so unhappy when that occurs!).
Plain chickpeas – Drain the liquid out of the chickpea can then unfold the chickpeas on a tray. No must pat dry – the place going to oven dry them as a substitute. Simpler, and simpler – the chickpeas come out crispier.

Oven collectively – Put the candy potato on the highest rack and chickpeas on the rack beneath set so it’s 20cm / 8″ aside (to permit the recent air to flow into). They may each take round half-hour.

The oven temperature is pretty excessive – 220°C/450°F (200°C fan) – to encourage some color on the candy potato. If the oven temperature is decrease, I discover they only go from uncooked to smooth and soggy.
Season chickpeas – After 10 minutes, take the chickpeas out. Now they’re good and dry, which suggests crispier chickpeas! Push them to 1 finish of the tray, toss with the oil and spices. Then bake for 20 minutes or till they’re crispy – you’ll be able to simply inform as a result of they are going to clatter on the tray.

The chickpeas will keep fairly crispy for a superb 15 to twenty minutes, so you’ll be able to simply go away them on the tray till you’re prepared to make use of them.

Elective charring beneath grill/broiler – Roast the candy potatoes for half-hour in whole, turning on the midway mark, till they’re smooth. By this time they are going to have just a little color on them, however for those who’d prefer to char them like pictured for just a little further flavour and maple caramelisation, give them 5 minutes beneath the oven grill/broiler.
Spicy maple sauce – Combine this whereas the potatoes are within the oven. Actually simply put every little thing in a small bowl and blend.

Whipped tahini yogurt sauce – This can be a two step course of – whisk the components collectively in a microwave proof bowl (do that anytime forward). Then inside 5 minutes of serving, heat the combination within the microwave for simply 30 seconds and provides it a vigorous whisk once more. The sauce will remodel from a typical yogurt sauce right into a texture nearly like softly whipped cream.

Elective tahini drizzle sauce – Take away 1/4 cup of the whipped tahini and blend with round 2 tablespoons of water or till it has a drizzle-able consistency. This isn’t important, it’s largely for aesthetics.
Assemble – Bear with me, this step will appear overly instructive however the intention is to make sure you get a little bit of every little thing with every bit of candy potato scooped up. No one desires to be that one who finally ends up with a plain piece of candy potato – how unhappy!

So, right here’s the order wherein I construct: unfold a big flat plate with the tahini sauce then lay the candy potato on high, largely in a single layer. Drizzle with tahini sauce (if utilizing), sprinkle with about 3/4 of the pistachios and coriander. Then pile or scatter the chickpeas on high, and sprinkle with the remaining pistachios and coriander. Then, serve!

The best way to serve this candy potato salad

Serve this as a show-off facet, a meat-free major, or a part of what I name a “salad unfold”, my go-to low-stress lunch possibility. It covers make-ahead ease with room temperature serving and the inevitable “I’m being wholesome” pal, plus gluten-free and vegetarians.

To be clear, once I say “salads”, I’m not speaking about your on a regular basis Backyard Salad. I imply issues like Pearl Couscous Salad, Farro Salad with Sizzled Dressing, Attractive Lentil Salad (it’s title worthy!), Roast Pumpkin Feta Salad, Wild Rice Salad, Lentil Roasted Eggplant Salad , Yotam Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad and Honey-Cinnamon Pumpkin Salad – to call a couple of. Right here’s just a little preview:

Nothing boring there!! 🙂

To seek out extra, have a flick thru the Vegetable and Salad index which is grouped by vegetable, a helpful method to discover substantial salads. Begin with legumes, then head to pumpkin, candy potato, cauliflower and different “meaty” / starchy greens.

Let me know for those who get an opportunity to do that candy potato recipe! Like to know what you assume. – Nagi x

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Maple candy potato salad with whipped tahini

Maple roasted candy potato salad with whipped tahini

The whipped tahini yogurt sauce