Maple candy potato salad with whipped tahini

June 10, 2025

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Channelling my interior 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 12 months. Ridiculously good!

Maple candy 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 Jap and Mediterranean flavours in his early cookbooks, Jerusalem and Lots.

To be sincere, I discover a few of his recipes name for elements I wrestle to search out so I don’t make as many as I would like, 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 fascinating and a bathe of pistachios.

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

Maple sweet potato salad with whipped tahini

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 instances beforehand, like in this recipe and this recipe.

Components

Right here’s what you should make this candy potato salad.

1. Maple roasted candy potato

You don’t want a lot maple syrup to roast candy potatoes, only a mild coating. In reality, in the event you 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″ huge, so you may simply reduce them into acceptable measurement wedges, as pictured. Nonetheless, be at liberty to unleash the inventive demon inside and reduce different shapes as an alternative – like discs, thick half moons and even cubes (you insurgent, you!).
Maple syrup – I like the maple flavour on this dish however you may substitute with honey as an alternative. (PS If you happen to use synthetic maple syrup moderately than the actual stuff, the maple flavour is usually 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 take advantage of for my Center Jap model Candy Potato Steaks and Inexperienced Beans with a Mountain of Panko (you’ll perceive the odd title once you see the photographs).

Plain yoghurt – Not sweetened, and never flavoured. Common yogurt or Greek yogurt.
Tahini – Paste made with sesame seeds. Normally discovered within the well being meals aisle at grocery shops. Use hulled tahini (extra frequent), 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 you probably have leftovers from different recipes I’ve shared, like this one or this one!
Lemon – The tang to stability the flavour.
Garlic – Use a garlic crusher, or in order for you a totally clean sauce, finely grate it utilizing a microplane.

3. CRISPY CHICKPEAS

Not important – I’d completely make this recipe with out – however undoubtedly provides fabulous additional textural curiosity and pops of flavour. Plus, they prepare dinner within the oven concurrently 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 appears to be like too easy to have sufficient flavour, nevertheless it does! Firstly, this sauce is simply an accent moderately than main flavour. Secondly, sriracha is just not made with simply pureed chilli, it’s obtained different issues in it as properly – garlic, vinegar, salt, sugar.

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

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

How one can make this Candy Potato Salad

This recipe has a pleasant move to it as a result of the candy potatoes and chickpeas prepare 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 an alternative. 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 are going to 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 simply go from uncooked to smooth and soggy.
Season chickpeas – After 10 minutes, take the chickpeas out. Now they’re good and dry, which implies 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 may simply inform as a result of they are going to clatter on the tray.

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

Optionally available charring below grill/broiler – Roast the candy potatoes for half-hour in complete, turning on the midway mark, till they’re smooth. By this time they are going to have a bit of color on them, however in the event you’d prefer to char them like pictured for a bit of additional flavour and maple caramelisation, give them 5 minutes below the oven grill/broiler.
Spicy maple sauce – Combine this whereas the potatoes are within the oven. Actually simply put the whole lot in a small bowl and blend.

Whipped tahini yogurt sauce – This can be a two step course of – whisk the elements 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 rework from a typical yogurt sauce right into a texture virtually like softly whipped cream.

Optionally available 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 principally 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 the whole lot with each piece of candy potato scooped up. No person 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, principally 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!

How one can serve this candy potato salad

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

To be clear, after 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 a bit of preview:

Nothing boring there!! 🙂

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

Let me know in the event you 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