Add a Kick to Your Appetizers with Spicy Sweet Potato Kebabs
Nicole Ballantyne-Choo — October 31, 2013 — Lifestyle
References: squarepennies
For your friends who love intense flavor, serve up some sweet potato kebabs at your next get-together.
These skewered appetizers will definitely satisfy guests, especially if you put four or five potatoes on each stick. While they look difficult, they're actually quite easy to prepare and don't require you to spend your entire day in the kitchen.
With your sweet potatoes, chili powder, olive oil, cilantro, cayenne pepper, brown sugar and salt on hand, you're ready to begin. The first step is to decide just how big you want the potatoes to be. In a zip-lock bag, combine the rest of the ingredients and mix them up, adding the potatoes at the end.
Once the sweet potatoes are soaked in the spices, bake them uncovered for 10 minutes. When they're ready, the fun part of skewing them begins! What's great about sweet potato kebabs is you can add other vegetables to the stick for different flavors and colors.
These skewered appetizers will definitely satisfy guests, especially if you put four or five potatoes on each stick. While they look difficult, they're actually quite easy to prepare and don't require you to spend your entire day in the kitchen.
With your sweet potatoes, chili powder, olive oil, cilantro, cayenne pepper, brown sugar and salt on hand, you're ready to begin. The first step is to decide just how big you want the potatoes to be. In a zip-lock bag, combine the rest of the ingredients and mix them up, adding the potatoes at the end.
Once the sweet potatoes are soaked in the spices, bake them uncovered for 10 minutes. When they're ready, the fun part of skewing them begins! What's great about sweet potato kebabs is you can add other vegetables to the stick for different flavors and colors.
Trend Themes
1. Spicy Appetizers - There is an opportunity in the food industry for businesses to bring a variety of spicy appetizers with unique ingredients, for people who enjoy intense flavors.
2. DIY Kebab Kits - E-commerce businesses can innovate by selling kits that contain pre-cut vegetables and spices for making skewered meal starters at home.
3. Plant-based Kebabs - As people become more conscious of their health and the environment, businesses can create plant-based options for skewered meal starters.
Industry Implications
1. Food - Restaurants and catering companies can introduce spicy meal starters to their menus, or offer DIY kebab kits to their customers.
2. E-commerce - Online retailers can sell pre-packaged DIY kebab kits to customers who enjoy cooking at home but might not want to do the prep-work themselves.
3. Health & Wellness - Vegan and vegetarian meal delivery services can offer plant-based kebab options to their customers who are health- and environmentally conscious.
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