Sweet Potato and Lentil Side Dish

Servings: 4 people

A warm and comfortable and also hearty simple side dish, our Sweet Potato & Lentils is fairly very easy to prepare as well as can be readjusted to your preference. Include some curry powder or cumin for a larger bite or some fresh herbs for colour. This side complements a baked or barbequed sheet of fish, meat or tofu. You can likewise find it in this dish Tarragon Roasted Fish. (Main carbohydrate having ingredients are listed in strong.)

Ingredients

1 large leeks, dark eco-friendly components removed, quartered lengthwise, then sliced every 1cm/ 1/2"
1 garlic clove, smashed or finely sliced
1 tablespoon of light olive oil or food preparation oil
1 x 400g/ -13 ounce can lentils, drained as well as well rinsed
600g/ -1 extra pound sweet potato/ kumera, peeled, cubed, and roasted

Additional elements are specified in the offering suggestions below.

Preheat the oven to 190 ° C/ 350F.

Put cubed pleasant potato right into a baking recipe as well as equally layer with half the oil. When your stove is heated, placed the meal in for around 20 -25 mins or until dices are soft inside and also crunchy outside. (Convenient hint - the smaller the dices, the much faster they will cook. Yet don"t make them also small or they will break down right into mush. A 1cm dice is a good dimension.)

While pleasant potato is roasting, heat the remaining 1/2 tablespoon of oil in a frypan on low-medium heat. Bring in chopped leek and also garlic as well as chef for around 10 minutes up until softened as well as see-through. Eliminate frypan from heat.

Add drained lentils as well as roasted delightful potato to frypan. Re-heat for around 5 minutes on medium. Season to taste.

This mix is really a beginning factor. Once prepared you could possibly mix via any one of the nexting, fresh tarragon/ basil/ parsley/ baby spinach leaves, 1/2 tsp of cumin powder, 1/2 teaspoon of curry powder.

Either incorporate this with its initial recipe (Tarragon Roasted Fish) or serve alongside a piece of grilled fish, meat or tofu.