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Spice up your dinner with our Firecracker Smashed Sweet Potatoes! These sweet and spicy spuds are a cozy and comforting quick meal that'll leave you craving more. Packed full of flavour and a good whack of heat.
Smashed sweet potatoes with tahini and cannellini beans
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Duration1 hour
Prep Time1 hour
Servings2 people

Ingredients

Sweet potatoes
  • 4 medium sweet potatoes
  • Olive oil
  • Flakey salt
  • Sichuan peppercorns
Creamy chili crisp
  • 50 g tahini
  • 2 tbsp chili crisp
  • 1 lime
  • Salt to taste
  • Water (to loosen)
Spicy Spinach Cannellini
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 2 large cloves of garlic
  • 400 g can cannellini beans
  • 100 g baby spinach
  • 1 tbsp chili crisp
To serve
  • Sesame seeds

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 200°C

Prepare the sweet potatoes

  • Use a fork to pierce the sweet potatoes.
  • Drizzle a little olive oil over the sweet potatoes and rub it into the skins, rub a little salt around the sweet potatoes.
  • Put the sweet potatoes in the roasting tin and roast for 40-45 minutes until soft and tender.

Prepare the creamy chilli crisp

  • Halve the lime and squeeze the juice into a small bowl.
  • Add the tahini, chilli crisp, and a little salt, then stir to combine.
  • Add a little water to reach a viscous pouring consistency.

Prepare the spinach cannellini

  • Peel and finely slice the garlic.
  • Drain, rinse, and pat dry the cannellini beans.
  • Warm the olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat, add the garlic, and fry until aromatic and golden.
  • Add the cannellini beans and stir for 2-3 minutes to cook through.
  • Add the spinach to the pan and stir for 1 minute until wilted.
  • Pour over the chilli crisp and stir to combine.

Finish and serve

  • Lay the sweet potatoes out equally on serving plates and split them down the middle with a sharp knife.
  • Drizzle a little olive oil, sprinkle a little salt, and a tiny pinch of Sichuan pepper over the steaming flesh of the roasted sweet potatoes.
  • Use a fork to fluff up the flesh of the potatoes before pressing down on the potatoes with the back of the fork to spread the potatoes out.
  • Spoon the Spinach Cannellini over the sweet potato, drizzle the Creamy Chilli Crisp over the spinach cannellini, garnish with sesame seeds, and serve immediately.