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Tzimmes
I just made sweet potato and pear tzimmes for the first time. While I cooked it a full ten minutes over the time the recipe said, the sweet potatoes are still a bit too firm.
The recipe called for mirin, but I subbed it with extra oil instead. I also think some pieces are larger than the 3/4 inches the recipe indicated (but not too much bigger). Do you think one of these things is the culprit?
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Re: Tzimmes
Perhaps the cooking time in the recipe was just off, or that your oven runs at a different temperature, or that maybe your pieces of sweet potato were too big.
I don't understand why a tzimmes recipe would call for mirin or oil, but I don't think either of those would have anything to do with your potatoes were being too firm.
This is the kind of thing that's very forgiving though - if I were following someone else's recipe for tzimmes, I'd taste it and see if was ready at the indicated time. If not, I'd keep cooking it longer. No biggie.
Here's my tzimmes recipe.
It has mirin in place of brandy or, in your recipe, brandy and Riesling. I really like your recipe, but as with this one, I would want to sub the wine out for something since I never cook with it enough to justify buying a bottle.
My oven has decided to be a d*ck out of nowhere a couple of times before, so maybe that's all it is. I'm just pretty inexperienced with cooking with alcohol, which made me sort of think it was probably a mistake with that. Thanks for the link to your recipe--if I ever have a bottle of riesling, I will have to try it!