Oh, sweet potato, how we love you. We love you boiled or baked and this recipe gives these tubers a real roasting! Read on.. Dear Readers.. read on!
You will need:
700g of sweet potatoes scrubbed and cut into big chunks.
6 large shallots, peeled and quartered.
3 fat garlic cloves.. Unpeeled!
2 large carrots, scrubbed and cut into big chunks.
1 tbsp of harissa paste plus extra to serve.
1 tbsp of olive oil.
Salt and freshly ground black pepper.
1.2 litres of vegetable stock.
1 level tsp of runny honey.
1 fat lemon.
Fat free yoghurt.. fat free is heavier and stays as a big 'fat' lump in your soup! Delish!
How to make it:
Preheat your oven to 200 / Fan 180 / Gas mark 6.
Put the sweet potatoes, shallots, carrots and garlic into a roasting pan.
Mix the harissa with the oil and pour over the vegetables, stir gently so they're coated in oil.
Season and roast, turning occasionally, for 40 minutes until the veg are tender and golden.
Remove from oven.
Squeeze the garlics out of their skins into the roasting tin.
Stir in the stock and the honey & scrape up all the bits from the bottom of the tin.
Allow to cool slightly.
Carefully transfer everything into a large saucepan.
Using your handheld whizzer ( I hope you've taken our advice and bought one.)
Whizz the vegetables until smooth.
Add a good squeeze of lemon juice.
Then season to taste with crunched salt and freshly ground pepper.
Swirl a tsp of harissa into the yoghurt and plop a dollop into each bowl or serving.
Now, what else did I say we would write about? Oh yes, a book by Tracy Chevalier.
'The Last Runaway' was published in 2013 and it made her wet-eyed, the story is set in 1850, the central figure is a young Quaker Englishwoman who travels with her sister to America. I am not going to spoil it for you but the point of us mentioning this book is about the Underground Railway, a subject about which she knew nothing having never been taught about it at school.
Readers in America will, of course, know about it but it has prompted her to inquire about books on it at her library.. it will be fairly grim reading I suspect..
She's off to find that Goaty mum tomorrow, the farmer's market will be at Balham but in a new location, let's hope she can find it as we are down to our very last slurp of kefir!
Now, I spy with my little eye some walnuts lying unprotected on the bed. My glutinous tumtum is a'telling me to fly off and gobble them up, so I'm away.. chocks away.. cheerio folks!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 8th, 2016.
You will need:
700g of sweet potatoes scrubbed and cut into big chunks.
6 large shallots, peeled and quartered.
3 fat garlic cloves.. Unpeeled!
2 large carrots, scrubbed and cut into big chunks.
1 tbsp of harissa paste plus extra to serve.
1 tbsp of olive oil.
Salt and freshly ground black pepper.
1.2 litres of vegetable stock.
1 level tsp of runny honey.
1 fat lemon.
Fat free yoghurt.. fat free is heavier and stays as a big 'fat' lump in your soup! Delish!
How to make it:
Preheat your oven to 200 / Fan 180 / Gas mark 6.
Put the sweet potatoes, shallots, carrots and garlic into a roasting pan.
Mix the harissa with the oil and pour over the vegetables, stir gently so they're coated in oil.
Season and roast, turning occasionally, for 40 minutes until the veg are tender and golden.
Remove from oven.
Squeeze the garlics out of their skins into the roasting tin.
Stir in the stock and the honey & scrape up all the bits from the bottom of the tin.
Allow to cool slightly.
Carefully transfer everything into a large saucepan.
Using your handheld whizzer ( I hope you've taken our advice and bought one.)
Whizz the vegetables until smooth.
Add a good squeeze of lemon juice.
Then season to taste with crunched salt and freshly ground pepper.
Swirl a tsp of harissa into the yoghurt and plop a dollop into each bowl or serving.
Now, what else did I say we would write about? Oh yes, a book by Tracy Chevalier.
'The Last Runaway' was published in 2013 and it made her wet-eyed, the story is set in 1850, the central figure is a young Quaker Englishwoman who travels with her sister to America. I am not going to spoil it for you but the point of us mentioning this book is about the Underground Railway, a subject about which she knew nothing having never been taught about it at school.
Readers in America will, of course, know about it but it has prompted her to inquire about books on it at her library.. it will be fairly grim reading I suspect..
She's off to find that Goaty mum tomorrow, the farmer's market will be at Balham but in a new location, let's hope she can find it as we are down to our very last slurp of kefir!
Now, I spy with my little eye some walnuts lying unprotected on the bed. My glutinous tumtum is a'telling me to fly off and gobble them up, so I'm away.. chocks away.. cheerio folks!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 8th, 2016.
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