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Roasted Sweet Potato with Feta, Spring Onions and Peanuts

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Roasted Sweet Potato with Feta, Spring Onions and Peanuts

Quick and easy to make, this simple sweet potato traybake is livened up with sharp and salty feta, fresh spring onions and crunchy peanuts.
Serves 4
Total 55 min
Prep 10 min
Cook 45 min
Easy

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

Roasted sweet potato is one of the easiest and nicest quick dinners I can think of, and this smoky version, jazzed up with sharp feta, spring onions and a good dose of crunch from the peanuts, is certainly among them. Add some freshly chopped red chilli if you like, for extra heat.

Ingredients

2 large sweet potatoes cut into 2½cm wedges (you can peel them if you like – I leave the skin on)
1 red onion, quartered
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp sea salt flakes
100g feta cheese, crumbled
sour cream or natural yogurt, to serve
For the dressing:
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 lime, zest and juice
½ tsp or to taste sea salt flakes
3 spring onions, thinly sliced
A big handful of unsalted peanuts

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C fan/220°C/gas 7.

Tip the sweet potatoes, onion, oil, smoked paprika and sea salt into a roasting tin large enough to hold everything in one layer, then transfer to the oven and roast for 35–45 minutes (it’s quicker if the potatoes are very fresh, and slower if they’re a bit old).

Meanwhile, mix the extra virgin olive oil, lime zest and juice, sea salt if using, spring onions and peanuts together and set aside.

Once the sweet potatoes are cooked through, scatter over the spring onion dressing and the crumbled feta and serve hot, with sour cream or yogurt alongside.

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