04-04-2025
In the Kitchen with CCE: Maple roasted sweet potato taco
TOWN OF DICKINSON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – With maple sap tapping season drawing to a close, In The Kitchen with CCE has a recommendation for how to use the syrup in a savory dish.
Nutritionist Tara Kenyon is preparing a maple roasted sweet potato taco. Served on a soft flour taco, the dish also has feta cheese, chipotle peppers, pickled onions and cilantro.
Kenyon says maple syrup has a lower glycemic index than other sweeteners so it won't raise your blood sugar as high or as quickly. She says it's a great alternative to sugar when cooking.
'Maple syrup contains vitamins and minerals which other traditional sweeteners, table sugar do not contain. So, you are getting some nutrition when you consume maple syrup,' Kenyon said.
Kenyon says maple syrup is available year-round at the Broome County Regional Farmers Market and the neighboring Taste New York store.
They even sell maple sugar, maple tea, maple gum and maple meat sticks.
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