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Spiced Sweet Potato Curry with Peas and Coconut Milk

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Spiced Sweet Potato Curry with Peas and Coconut Milk

This easy one-pan curry is perfect for midweek dinners, featuring sweet potatoes, carrots and peas in a creamy coconut milk sauce.
Serves 2 adults + 2 children
Total 40 min
Prep 10 min
Cook 30 min
Easy

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

This curry is a real crowd-pleaser, with just a little bit of spice for flavour, and plenty of sweetness from the potatoes and peas. If your family likes mushrooms, consider adding a packet of quartered ordinary mushrooms for an added vegetable. A lovely, warming dish.

Ingredients

500g sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1cm cubes
4 banana shallots, peeled and quartered
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
½ tsp ground turmeric
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp sea salt flakes (optional)
1 x 400g tin of coconut milk
300ml boiling water
150g frozen peas, defrosted
100g red lentils
1–2 limes, juice only
A handful of fresh coriander, chopped

Method

Preheat the oven to 210°C fan/230°C/gas 8. Put everything into the roasting tin, except the coconut milk, water, peas and lentils. Mix, then roast for 5 minutes. Add the coconut milk, water, peas and lentils, stir well and cook for a further 25 minutes, until the potatoes are cooked through.

Be careful opening the oven, as this dish will release quite a lot of steam. Once cooked, taste and adjust with lime juice and salt as needed, scatter over the fresh coriander and serve hot with rice or flatbreads.

CHANGE IT UP: For adults, add 1 teaspoon of chilli powder when you roast the sweet potatoes, or finely chopped fresh red chilli at the end.

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