Asian Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Name: Asian Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 2 tbsp fish sauce; 4 tsp sesame oil; ¼ cup lime juice; 1½ tsp cumin seed; 30 g coriander, roughly chopped; 3 spring onions, finely sliced on the diagonal; optional: 250 g black beans, soaked overnight and boiled until tender; ¼ cup honey; 1½ kg red (or orange) sweet potatoes cut into chunks; ¼ cup sunflower oil; 5 red onions, sliced; 1½ tsp crushed garlic

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Week in the Kitchen

By Karen Dudley

Published 2012

About

The Asian lime and sesame flavours in this salad are a great contrast to the rich roasted sweet potatoes. This is an unusual and substantial salad that is delicious with grilled fish. The black beans add a surprising texture. Stir them through the flavoured onion mix so that all the flavours become acquainted with each other.

Ingredients

1½ kg red (or orange) sweet potatoes cut into chunks
¼ cup sunflower oil
5

Asia
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Toss the sweet potato chunks with the vegetable oil and roast in the hottest oven, spread out evenly on a baking tray, until golden and slightly toasted on the edges. This will take 25–30 minutes.

Fry the onions over medium heat until softened and translucent – about 12 minutes. Then add the garlic, cumin seed, lime juice, sesame oil, fish sauce and honey, and cook a little more to make