Warm Salad of Avocado, Roast Pepper and Sweet Potato

Name: Warm Salad of Avocado, Roast Pepper and Sweet Potato
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 4 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil; 2 red peppers, deseeded and quartered; salt and black pepper; 1 tbsp. sherry vinegar; 225 g (8 oz) rocket, baby spinach, watercress or lambs’ lettuce; ½ small red chilli, deseeded and finely sliced; 1½ tbsp olive oil, plus extra for the sweet potatoes; smidgen of Dijon mustard; 2 sweet potatoes, peeled; 2 ripe avocados; squeeze of lemon juice; splash of rum (optional); ½ tsp. caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

This is a wonderfully sweet and filling salad, with, the silky avocado and griddled sweet potato slices bathed in a dubbed-up dressing.

Ingredients

2 red peppers, deseeded and quartered
1½ tbsp olive oil, plus extra for the sweet potatoes
salt and

Europe
United Kingdom
Gluten-free
Vegan
Spicy

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5. Put the peppers in a roasting tin, drizzle with the oil, season and roast for about 30 minutes</