Cumin Roasted Sweet Potatoes

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from New Vegetarian Cooking by Rose Elliot; p. 42

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs, 4 oz. sweet potatoes, scrubbed
• 2 cloves garlic
• salt
• 2 T ground cumin
• 2 T olive oil
• 2 T fresh lemon juice
• freshly ground black pepper

Directions:

1. Heat the broiler to high.
2. Cut the sweet potatoes into walnut sized chunks and arrange on a cookie sheet .
3. Chop or grate the garlic, then mix with a large pinch of salt and pound to a paste with the tip of your knife.  Mix this paste with the cumin, olive oil, lemon juice and a little pepper; then mix it with the sweet potatoes so that they are all evenly coated.
4. Broil for about 10 to 15 minutes, moving the potatoes around after about 5 minutes o they brown evenly.  They're done when you can easily get a knife point into one and are tinged brown.