This isn’t your typical, ho-hum salad recipe! If you really love yams and pecans, then this is a salad you should try. Yams are roasted with red pepper, and pecans are skillet cooked with spices. All of these flavors are made more delicious with the tangy vinaigrette. It’s so yummy!
Ingredients needed:
yams red bell pepper vegetable or canola oil mustard seeds cayenne pepper, ground cinnamon and ground cumin pecan halves freshly squeezed lime juice sesame oil salt red onion fresh cilantro
How to make Yam and Pecan Salad:
The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.
Are Yams and Sweet Potatoes the same thing?
What’s the difference? In markets in the U.S., the light skinned potatoes are usually labeled as sweet potatoes and the copper skin/orange flesh potatoes are usually labeled as “yams.” Both of them are actually two different varieties of fresh sweet potatoes. It’s confusing, isn’t it? You’ll want to use the orange flesh true yams for this recipe.
Serve this yam and pecan salad with a fall-themed dinner such as orange cranberry glazed pork tenderloin, smoked pork chops with maple baked apples or gouda stuffed chicken with apple pan sauce. Enjoy!
Favorite Fall Salad Recipes:
Mixed Green Salad with Oranges, Dried Cranberries and Pecans Cranberry Spinach Salad with Gorgonzola Harvest Fall Salad Recipe Mixed Green Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette Pear and Apple Salad with Gruyere and Toasted Pecans
