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Roasted Kūmara

Name: Roasted Kūmara
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: New Zealand
Ingredients: 2 Sweet potato; 2 tbsp Olive oil; 1 tbsp Honey; 1/2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 2 sprigs Thyme

Side Dish

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Kūmara, the sweet potato said to have been brought by the Māori, roasted golden in olive oil — a side dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kūmara is New Zealand's sweet potato, a precious crop said to have been carried by canoe from Polynesia by the Māori ancestors. Dargaville in the North Island is known as the 'kūmara capital' of production. It's roasted, fried, or mashed and used as a side for roast lamb or in salads.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a farmhouse kitchen near the kūmara fields of the North Island, red-skinned sweet potatoes fill a baking tray and roast golden in the oven.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Sweet potato 2
Olive oil 2 tbsp
Honey 1 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Thyme 2 sprigs

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the sweet potatoes into large chunks with the skin on, soak in water, and pat dry.
Toss with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Spread on a baking tray, top with thyme, and roast at 200°C for 30 minutes.
Drizzle with honey, turn everything over, and roast another 10 minutes.
Serve as a side for roast meat.

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