Healthy sweet potato recipe for 2 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has sweet potato, onion, carrot, ginger, garlic clove, oil, curry powder, stock cube, tomato puree, red lentil, coriander, greek-style yogurt and broccoli.
Indian sweet potato & dhal pies
Course: Healthy sweet potato
Servings
2
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Coriander: good handful coriander, chopped, plus sprigs to serve
- Garlic Clove: 2 garlic cloves, finely grated
- Onion: 1 onion, halved and thinly sliced
- Carrot: 2 carrots, scrubbed, halved and sliced lengthways
- Curry Powder: 1 tbsp curry powder
- Red Lentil: 85g red lentils
- Stock Cube: 1 vegetable stock cube
- Oil: 2 tsp oil
- Tomato Puree: 2 tbsp tomato puree
- Sweet Potato: 650g sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into small chunks
- Broccoli: broccoli, to serve (optional)
- Ginger: 15g ginger, finely grated
- Greek Style Yogurt: generous spoonful 0% fat Greek-style yogurt
Directions
- Place the sweet potato in a pan of boiling water and cook for 15 mins, or until tender.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in a pan and fry the onion and carrot, for 2 minutes, then add the garlic and ginger and cook, stirring for 1 min more. Tip in the curry powder, stir round the pan then add 750ml of the boiling water with the stock cube, tomato puree and lentils. Cover the pan and boil for 20 mins until the vegetables are tender and the liquid has been absorbed. Stir in the chopped coriander.
- When the sweet potatoes are cooked, drain and mash them with the yogurt and seasoning.
- Spoon the lentil mix into one big or two individual dishes then top with the sweet potato mixture, scatter with the coriander and serve with broccoli, if you like.
