Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes with pecans, feta cheese, and balsamic drizzle is an incredibly flavorful side dish, packed with nutrients. Serve it alongside your main entrée for a filling meal.
For me, fall is all about getting silly cozy and indulging in things that warm me inside and out.
It’s about those off-yellow, green, and orange colors that you couldn’t possibly wear any other time of year, and that super warm decades-old hoody with torn kangaroo pockets you stole from your dad circa 1995.
Fall is the season for fleece, cinnamon, mulled wine, and by golly, it’s about side dishes!
Call me crazy, but I could eat pounds upon pounds of roasted vegetables.
They are my ultimate comfort food.
You may have seen in my Crowd-Pleasing Roasted Vegetables recipe that I typically use a large variety of vegetables; however, from time to time, I like to keep it simple using 2 or 3 veggies, then making it fancy it with nuts, cheese, and a reduction sauce.
This simple Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes recipe is the perfect side dish for fall and winter.
Roasting the brussels sprouts and sweet potato with spices gives the vegetables extra flavor.
Adding the pecans, feta cheese, and balsamic reduction takes the dish to a unique level without adding a whole lot of complication.
Ingredients for Roasted Brussel Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes:
What we need to make this healthy side dish happen is fresh brussels sprouts, sweet potato, feta cheese, pecans, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, garlic powder, cumin, sea salt, and a pinch of allspice.
This combination of flavors and textures is so pleasing to the palate and happens to pair very nicely with just about any main entrée!
Serve it with Instant Pot Lamb Shanks, Garlic Herb Roast Beef, or Pan Seared Shrimp with Lemon Garlic Risotto!
Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
- 4 cups brussels sprouts trimmed and halved
- 1 large sweet potato chopped into ½-inch chunks
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- Pinch allspice
- 3/4 teaspoon sea salt to taste
- ¼ cup raw pecans
- 1/3 cup feta cheese
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Add the brussels sprouts, sweet potato, olive oil, garlic powder, cumin, allspice, and sea salt to a small casserole dish (8" x 8" or 9" x 13" will both work!). Toss everything together to coat the veggies.
- Place on the center rack of the oven and bake 30 to 45 minutes, stirring once half-way through, or until veggies are golden-brown and cooked through.
- In a small saucepan, heat the balsamic vinegar over medium-high and bring to a full boil. Cook at a full (but controlled) boil, stirring frequently, until vinegar is reduced by 1/2 of its original volume, about 5 minutes.
- Taste veggies for flavor and add salt to taste. Serve roasted veggies with pecans, feta, and balsamic reduction drizzled on top.
That looks like a solid countertop oven and hard to find a good these days. Checked out the beefy toaster as well. Dang I need to save up
Love the cheeky red knobs!! Roasting veggies is the best for warming up your insides AND your heat-controlled-downstairs-in-the landlady’s-apartment apartment! BRUSSEL SPROUTS! Love em. And they remind me of Brussels in dear old Belgium.
Can’t wait to make this this weekend!
I just adore brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes. Yum! Would love to win this for my family.
I need this for my kids!! Also, what am I following them on? There isn’t a link. Oops. I’m heading your way for some roasted veggies and pancakes, ’cause I miss you. I’ll bring pie. Keep the coffee pot on. xoxo
Oh, wow–I am so with you, and I love the phrase “silly cozy”. I find roasted vegetables really comforting as well. I’m not sure if I feel the same way about John Cusack movies (…but it’s worth investigating, right?? #newweekendplan)
This countertop oven looks perfect, especially because my current actual oven is not super reliable and heats up the little house we’re staying in like crazy. Do you think this oven heats up your kitchen less than a full-size one, or about the same?
This is amazing! I live in an apartment so this would definitely be awesome to have! That brussel sprout dish look delicious as well 🙂
Excellent recipe; and the Countertop Oven sounds fantastic.
Thank you for the chance to win it 🙂
jslbrown2009 at aol dot com
Yum! I wish I had this recipe when I was getting brussels sprouts in my CSA box. I will be making these!
Two of Falls best! brussels and potatoes 😉
I love brussels sprouts! and adding the sweet potatoes sounds amazing! Crossing my fingers over the oven 🙂
Looks like that counter top oven would be especially useful during the holidays!
Ooh, I would love a countertop oven. Count me in x
Oh man, that oven looks amazing! I bet it saves on your electricity bill too. These are the things I think about because I’m such a cheapskate, lol.
Give me all the roasted veggies!!
I’m usually bored with giveaways, but this one grabbed my attention — that oven would be sooooo great to have! I also happen to adore Brussels sprouts, but making them look fresh and appealing is tough. I love all the color in your dish!
I never thought of roasting sweet potatoes with sprouts but I love it! Yum.
Brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes. How can you lose? Saving this one for a Sunday
I love the brussel sprouts recipe. The Oven is beautiful!
I almost never win anything, so don’t enter drawings very often, but this would be very cool to have. Love your website.
Didn’t get to the Brussel sprouts abd yams at Thanksgiving so I’m looking forward to using this recipe. I’d love the counter top oven as I live alone abd find using tge bug oven for a small dish a waste of energy and time.
I love roasted Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes!
This oven sounds awesome and I can’t wait to try out this recipe! The colors are beautiful and it looks delicious:)
this looks delicious – will try asap!
This looks delish! Always looking for ways to eat more sweet potatoes.
That oven is almost as beautiful as that delicious looking dish of veggies!
Wow…I can smell the baked veggies with the balsamic !
Makes my mouth water.
The oven looks delectably cute. Certainly would save
time and money as I am sure it heats up speedily!
I’m sure it would give off those mouth watering and
stomach churning sensations from good food being
prepared!
Love your recipes, this one is no exception!
I can smell the veggies roasting from here!
Would love to replicate it with the winning Wolf counter
top oven! cheers
Brussels sprouts and sweet potato look fabulous as does the wolf countertop oven. I too love those red knobs and hope to see them in my kitchen
Perfect offering for a Ladies-Who-Brunch gathering on Sunday! Thanks, Julia!
Looks delicious! Thank you for the giveaway!
This sounds so good, but as a vegan I would leave out the feta. That oven looks awesome too!!!
I love roasted veggies and countertop ovens–the Wolf is far fancier than any I have owned. I would love to own one. In the meantime, I’ll be trying your recipe in the regular oven. The recipe looks delish.
Can’t wait to try this scrumptious recipe!!
Thank you!!
That recipe looks amazing!! I have never seen much success in preparing brussels sprouts and now I know why -> I need that gorgeous Wolf Countertop Oven! Why am I just realizing this now? Duh.
I’m a new reader, but comment I will! The roasted veggies recipe sounds fab, and I was just looking for something simple to please a crowd who have flown across the Atlantic to me here in France for a visit – we want to have fun AND eat well so this is perfect! Also I am replacing my cooking stove and this is too good an opportunity to miss.
Thanks!
Oh Julia, You had me at B.S.’s and S.P.’s, but when you add in a contest – well, NOW you have my undivided attention! Having a family party on Sunday and you just helped me with my menu. xox
This dish looks amazing! I hope to make it over the weekend. The photos are beautiful for this recipe and your entire website =) I would love the Wolf Gourmet Countertop Oven!!! We have been seriously thinking about getting a countertop oven since it doesn’t use as much energy as the conventional size for a single dish, and of course so many other uses! I actually didn’t know that Wolf makes one ~ it is definitely on my wish list!
Recipe looks delish, pinned! That oven would be great down here in Florida where its always warm so I don’t have to turn on my big one. Perfect for cooking for 2 people too!
What a lovely fall recipe!
40-ish comments and why do I seem to be the first asking for the amounts of feta and balsamic vinegar? (all I see is “? cup” for each) Must be contest fever!
I credit roasting vegetables for how I was able to significantly up my husband’s veggie consumption!
Looks Delish ! Going to make this one very soon 🙂
I love Brussels sprouts but never thought of combining them with sweet potatoes. I’ll try it this weekend.
Red knobs! Nice oven. they are installing Wolf ovens at the big project, and I have been so envious. The recipe looks delicious. Full of yummy good-for -you vegys. I love that you used allspice.
This recipe looks delicious! I love sweet potatoes.
Great recipe…I’ve pinned it, and a great prize! Thank you.
Great-looking recipe and counter top oven…I didn’t see a link to enter the giveaway, so I’m posting here instead. Pick me, pick me! 😉
This recipe looks amazing. I would have never thought about combining the Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes. That is why I just love getting your recipes daily. The counter top oven would make it even easier to make these. I am sure whoever is the lucky duck to win will have a great time with this.
Um, can’t wait to make these!! Brilliant combo of flavors! 🙂
I love the idea of a compact countertop convection oven. Save energy! Also can’t wait to try the recipe. I saw the first Brussels spout stalks in the farmers market yesterday. 🙂
Would so love to win this counter top oven. Great fall recipe as well. I’ll be making this one this weekend.
Roasted veggies are the best kind of comfort food… because they’re actually GOOD for you! That said, your list of fall comforts makes me smile because so many of those are on my list, too. Including a creamy porter or stout because YUM. And this recipe might make it, too, because there’s something so delish about brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes when they’re roasted.
My veggies are roasting right now!! I love adding toasted pine nuts and a squeeze of lemon. I also love to make a lot and eat it for days.
Wish I may Wish I might Win this delight (there is space for it!)
yummmmmy! can’t wait to try this and your other yummmmmmmy recipes!!!
Wow! This recipe looks amazing. And that oven is pretty spectacular!
This looks like such an awesome holiday dinner side dish! Pinning 🙂
Sweet potatoes and brussel sprouts are some of my favorites! I love roasting them together!
Looks great! Brussels are my favorite!
With a new baby coming soon, an oven that heats up and cooks quickly would be PERFECT! Thanks for the chance to win. And for that yummy recipe.
i’m almost ready to say farewell to brussels sprouts because they wreak such havoc, but this recipe is a must-try!
I love roasted veggies and this recipe looks wonderful. Can’t wait to try it.
this dish looks sooooo yummy. all of my favorite fall things!
This would be awesome to have!
This would especially come in handy for huge dinners like Thanksgiving. We always have to prioritize what we will eat fresh out of the oven and what will have to be warmed up. Oven space is at a premium on those days and this would alleviate that.
I am finally a Brussel Sprout lover!! After 34 years I finally can eat them and I’m so happy! I’ve always, eventually eaten what I didn’t like as a child, but these took a while. I am now ready to try all the recipes I find! Thanks for the chance too! 🙂
Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes, 2 of my favorite things!! Would love a kitchen counter oven as well 🙂
Wow! This dish looks so great–and perfect for fall weather!
So glad sprouts are back in season! Thank you for hosting the giveaway!
Awesome giveaway! I love my toaster oven and use it all the time. It’s on its last legs though, so this is perfect timing. The Wolf toaster oven looks fantastic!
Great recipe! Love to win the oven!
I am with you Julia on all of these comforts… roasted veggies, creamy stout, John Cusak movies… fav hoodies and great music..
The Wolf easy bake oven looks like a winner. Seems like it would be the handiest oven ever.
What a delicious combination and perfect autumn dish! Love the oven:)
This recipe looks amazing ! cannot wait to try it. Love the Wolf Oven that would be awesome to win.
I love brussel sprouts and would like to add them to our diet more. This looks like a good place to start!
The recipe looks fabulous and the oven is awesome. Love the red knobs!
Beautiful oven!
hi. is the giveaway open to canada?
I’m making this recipe right now, to take to friend’s for dinner tonight.
Mouthwatering. Off to the market to get some brussel sprouts
love the goodies on top–pecans, feta and balsamic. Seconding earlier comment–need amounts on those.
What an amazing looking countertop oven! Looking forward to making these Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes tonight!
You managed to fit in all my favorite fall vegetables into one dish. I wish I hadn’t just run out of sprouts
Everything in this recipe my sister LOVES, and I am making dinner tonight. We can’t wait to try it!!!
I love Brussels sprouts! I’ll have to try this recipe. I would love to win the Wolf countertop oven. More convenient than using my regular oven and a great way save electricity.
What a colorful recipe, I love to make brussel sprouts!
This oven would be great since my kids are adults and have moved out of the house. Just perfect for dinner for two 🙂
This would be so handy at Christmas to make sure my day runs smoothly with my large family
yum! sprouts
This sounds good, two of my favorite flavors! And what a beautiful addition the oven would be to anyone’s kitchen.
Now that I have a bit more counter space at home, I was just looking to buy a counter-top oven! I hate heating up my regular oven just to roast a few peppers or a bulb of garlic, so that oven would be perfect! And these brussels sprouts and sweet potato roast can get right into my belly!
Recipe looks delish! The oven round be wonderful addition to any kitchen!
Mmmm. Roasted everything. Countertop oven!
Mine is old and broken and it was cheap. I would love this fancy one.
The countertop oven looks like it’s just what I’ve been looking for. I love roasted veggies too, and your combo of brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes (2 of my favs) looks yummy!
This recipe looks great – can’t wait to try it. And the Wolf oven would be great to have for thanksgiving!
OHHHHHH boy, do I want that oven!!
And I’m making that dish tonight. 🙂
This is a perfect combination for me I love sweet potatos and brussel sprouts, roasted! Would love to roast in a Wolf oven!
This sounds like fall in a pan! My parents have a counter top oven similar to that one and it’s amazing how convenient it is. Preheat in like negative 5 minutes instead of a million hours for my normal oven? All about that life.
All of my favorites in one dish… we must have been separated at birth. I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to devouring this dish!
Stephanie (of Girl Versus Dough) and I were just talking about how much we love vegetables the other night. They are so wholesome and comforting, especially when they are roasted! LOVE this amazing fall dish and totally making later this week. 🙂
Mmmm. Tried this recipe this weekend, and it was delish! I bet it would be easy-peasy in that countertop oven, too.
I don’t know – I found it a bit bland but with both the balsamic and feta in unknown quantities, I had to guess. Guessed *almost* right – 1/2 cup balsamic but only 1/4 cup feta instead of 1/3 (thanks for fixing!!). There was a power failure part way through the cooking that fortunately only lasted a few seconds but required the restart of the oven Unfortunately, I didn’t notice that the toaster oven where I was keeping my store-bought chicken warming also shut off so only after I added the feta etc. I discovered the chicken had cooled off. So while the chicken was getting heated up again, the feta melted into nothingness. And even after 55-60 minutes in the oven, the Brussels sprouts were also a bit harder than I would’ve liked and they weren’t huge honkin’ ones (the stray leaves were tasty though). I don’t know what the leftovers will need to make them a bit tastier – maybe some maple syrup and a bit of spice? A bit of broth? Right now, it’s all just meh.
I would love this!
This countertop oven looks awesome! Perfect for quick weeknight meals!
Gotta love the simplicity of roasted veg – especially when they are my favourite vegetables. 🙂
I am new to this website and this is the first recipe I am going to try. It looks delicious!
I am all about brussels and sweet potatoes right now. Roasted veggies are my favorite part of the fall season! And the feta and balsamic – yes yes yes!
I’m always on the lookout for a good brussel sprout recipe. This one looks fantastic and easy! I can’t wait to try it. Thanks!
Roasted brussles sprouts are at the top of our favorites list. This oven would be so handy!
Can’t wait to try out this recipe, I love all of the ingredients in this!!!
Sounds great, I am always looking for way to cook Brussels sprouts, one of my favorites, can’t imagine anyone not liking them.
The timing of this is too funny– I needed a recipe for brussels sprouts and just saw this awesome picture. Recipe found! And our toaster oven crapped out after 9 years. Hmm
I never knew Wolf made counter top ovens! We had given our toaster oven to a person who needed one badly, leaving me to use our oven which bakes HORRIBLY….this would be an awesome win and your recipe sounds DELICIOUS
I’m going to make this tomorrow with baby sweet potatoes just given to me–perfect timing! The contrast of sweet and pungent Brussels sprouts and salty feta just has to be a veg-cation (vacation from the routine veggies in my house). It would be nice to have that Wolf to roast them along with maybe a nice pork loin…hmmmm….
I am new to your site but this looks like a great start! We’ll give this a try on the weekend. Thanks for the recipe and the chance to win the nifty Wolf oven!
Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes are my favorites but I have never put them together! Great idea/recipe which I’m trying out tomorrow. Since I live in a tiny house on wheels and am beginning a blog on the experience, I’m looking for the best appliances. Convection ovens are a necessity and quality is everything when fitting it into a tiny functional kitchen.
Thanks for introducing me to Wolf Gourmet. Their skillets and pan look like they are really high quality as well. Since I use an portable induction cooktop and since I don’t use anything with toxic finishes (ie. teflon-bad news!), these may be perfect. Since they look beautiful, they can be displayed right on the wall under the counter.
I made this recipe a few days ago and it was just deliciously awesome! The combination is amazing (although I left out the cumin – didn’t find any – and the walnuts – I needed to make it lower fat) This will definitely be a staple. I had the balsamic vinegar cooking when the kids came home and they all complained about the ‘smell’. Maybe I’ll try it without ‘reducing’ it next time. Thanks for reviving the brussel sprouts in my diet!
Hi Dina! I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe! Yes, I should have warned in the post that reducing balsamic creates a super pungent (and often off-putting) smell for many hours post-reducing – my apologies for not mentioning that! Thanks so much for the feedback!