The best and healthy sweet potato recipe
Try out this simple, savory, the best, and healthiest sweet potato recipe. A recipe for a quick, low-carb dinner. This vegan sweet potato recipe is using sweet potatoes with butternut squash.
Servings: 2 people
Calories:
Cost: 8€
Equipment
- A large skillet
- A sharp chef's knife or a mandoline
- A chopping board
Ingredients
- 1½ tablespoon mixed spices of your choice, here I used; Indian curry, sweet paprika, smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, nutmeg, & cumin
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 piece of fresh ginger
- 1 a root of fresh turmeric
- 2 medium onions
- 2 tablespoon cold pressed olive oil
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 slices butternut squash (the long part without seeds)
- ½ white sweet potato (long medium size)
- ½ orange sweet potato (long medium size)
- 1 cup vegetable broth
- 1 cup coconut milk
- fresh herbs of your choice (optional)
Instructions
- Dice the onions, grate ginger, turmeric, and garlic.
- In the skillet, put the spices and heat at medium heat.
- Bring the onions, ginger, and turmeric into the skillet. Add the oil, stir together, and cover to cook for 5 minutes.
- Using a sharp knife or a mandoline, slice the butternut squash into about ½ cm thin slices.
- Add some salt to the cooking spices with onions and stir well.
- Now place the butternut medallions on top closely together.
- Add the vegetable broth and increase the heat till the boiling takes place, then lower it.
- Let the butternut squash cook for about 3 mins while you cut the sweet potatoes.
- Peel the sweet potatoes if they're not organic or if the skin is damaged.
- Just like with the butternut, slice the sweet potatoes into medallions.
- Place these medaillons on top of butternut placing them close together like in gratin recipes
- Sprinkle the sweet potatoes with some little salt
- Add the coconut milk and let the dish simmer again till the sweet potatoes on the top are soft but firm, check using a fork
- Remove from the heat, let the dish cool covered before serving
- Garnish with fresh herbs (optional)
- This sweet potato side dish goes well with veggies or can be enough on its own.
- Enjoy this savory spicy sweet potato dish, thank you for sharing and pinning this recipe on Pinterest healthy boards.
Notes
- You can use 2 small butternuts instead of a large mature one because the small butternuts have a tender skin and they're easy to cut. Don't peel them.
- I used both white and orange sweet potatoes, but you can just stick to one of your preferences.
- If you can't slice these veggies into medallions, just cut them the way it's easy for you.
- You can leave out the squash and add an extra white sweet potato
- Keep the extremes of sweet potatoes, and use them in your homemade vegetable broth.
- Depending on the size of your medallions, this spicy dish can take a longer or shorter time to cook. Just check not to overcook it.
- If you do mise en place "preparing the veggies before cooking," please bear in mind that sweet potatoes will brown (oxidize) when exposed to air.