Curried roast sweet potato salad

[highlyeccentric]

Because I have made this twice lately and it's brilliant.


This recipe is: vegetarian, vegan, gluten free unless your mustard is glutenous for some reason
This recipe is not: really a balanced one-dish main meal on its own, although it's getting more like it since i added the beans in
This recipe requires: time, faffing about with ovens and pots and so on
This recipe is really good for: cooking in advance, eating cold, tasty leftovers


2-3 medium sweet potatoes
Olive oil, some, for the potatoes
1 onion
1-2 capsicum (bell pepper)
Fresh green beans (optional)
2/3 cup olive oil or thereabouts
50 ml red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon white sugar
ground black pepper, to taste
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp dijon mustard
1 tsp curry powder (currently I'm using madras curry powder, but this was originally designed for bog standard Keens Curry Powder type stuff)
Pinch ground nutmeg
Pinch cinnamon

1. Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into 1cm dice. Toss with a little olive oil, then spread in a baking tray and roast for about 30 min, in a 200 c oven.
2. Meanwhile, dice your onion, throw into a saucepan with some of the 2/3 cup olive oil, and sautee.
3. Add the rest of the olive oil, the vinegar, sugar, pepper, cumin, mustard, curry powder, nutmeg and cinnamon to the onion, stir well. Remove from heat.
4. Dice the capsicum and snap the beans into 2cm pieces, place in salad bowl.
5. When sweet potatoes are tender, mix together in a bowl with the beans and capsicum. Pour the onion-and-dressing over the top. Refrigerate 1h or overnight.

NB: i really can't estimate the serving numbers on this one. No matter how much I scale the recipe down it is always More Than Warranted. Maybe 5-6 as a side dish at these measurements.

Comments

[ofearthandstars]

This sounds lovely! K adore sweet potato dishes. (Also, thank you for sharing a vegan recipe.) :)

[highlyeccentric]

I didn't realise until I went to write it up that it *is* vegan! Glad you found it appealing :).