Roasted Sweet Potato Mango Salsa

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups (2 medium) sweet potatoes
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 tablespoon chili powder
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup mango, cubed
1/2 green bell pepper, cubed
1/2 red bell pepper, cubed
1/2 cup purple onion, diced
1 jalepeño, seeded and diced
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
1 tablespoon fresh-squeezed orange juice
1 tablespoon fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1 tablespoon fresh-squeezed lime juice
chips or crackers
 

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees.
    
2. Peel, rinse and cube sweet potatoes 1/4 inch or smaller. Toss sweet potatoes with salt, pepper, chili powder and olive oil.
    
3. Spread on baking sheet and roast 20 minutes.
    
4. Peel and cube mango. Seed and cube bell peppers. Dice onion. Seed and dice jalepeño. Finely chop cilantro.
    
5. Once sweet potatoes cool, mix with mango, peppers, onion and jalepeño. Cover with fresh-squeezed orange, lemon and lime juice.                                                                                                                           
    
6. Chill and serve with chips or crackers.

(Recipe and photo courtesy North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission)