Roasted Sweet Potato with Sweet Dream Sauce

Name: Roasted Sweet Potato with Sweet Dream Sauce
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 24 min
Total time: 39 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 3 medium-sized sweet potatoes; Red onion, thinly sliced, to garnish; Black sesame seeds, to garnish; Extra feta cheese, crumbled, to garnish; 1 can (170 g) tuna in oil; 3 tbsp Sweet Dream Sauce; 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese; Lemon juice, from 1/2 lemon; Lemon zest from 1 lemon

Apr 30, 2021

Roasted Sweet Potato with Sweet Dream Sauce

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Cuisine

South African

Servings

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

24 minutes

Calories

315

This recipe is inspired by the classic South African combination of apricot-basted snoek (an oily fish commonly found along the coast of Southern Africa) and sweet potato. In Afrikaans, it’s lovingly known as Snoek en Patats. For this recipe, we replaced the snoek with easy-to-find canned tuna, and used it together with the Sweet Dream Sauce to make a delicious filling for sweet potatoes. Quick and easy, it makes an ideal weeknight dinner.

Author:

Rochelle Keet

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Ingredients

For the Sweet Potato:

3 medium-sized sweet potatoes
Red onion, thinly sliced, to garnish
Black sesame seeds, to garnish
Extra feta cheese, crumbled, to garnish

For the Tuna Filling:

1 can (170 g) tuna in oil
3 tbsp Sweet Dream Sauce
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
Lemon juice, from 1/2 lemon
Lemon zest from 1 lemon

Directions

Preheat the oven to 425°F/220°C.
Wash the sweet potatoes thoroughly and prick a few times with a sharp knife. Microwave on full power for 12 minutes.
Place the sweet potatoes on a baking tray and bake for 10-12 minutes.
In the meanwhile, prepare the tuna filling. Drain the tuna but keep the oil (see notes).
In a medium bowl mix together the tuna chunks, Sweet Dream Sauce, feta, lemon juice and zest.
Halve each sweet potato lengthwise and fill with the tuna mixture. Top with red onion, sesame seeds, and more feta.

Recipe Note

Use the drained tuna oil to create a chilli oil dressing. Simply mix the oil with 1/2 tsp ADF Ghost Pepper Salt. Let it sit while the sweet potatoes are cooking for the flavors to develop. Use the oil to dress the filled sweet potatoes.
This is a great way to use leftover grilled fish. Simply substitute the tuna with any fish you have in your fridge.
If you want to add more sweetness, you can increase the ADF Sweet Dream Sauce to 1/4 cup.
If you don’t have an oven, you can skip the roasting step and increase the microwave time to 20 minutes.