Bacon wrapped sweet potato wedges

Made some simple baked sweet potato wedges wrapped with crispy turkey bacon! So good fresh out of the oven. Especially if you love sweet potatoes like yours truly. Turkey bacon may not be super healthy but it isn't too bad if you make sure it's low in fat, sodium and most importantly nitrate free. Besides its pretty delicious. 

Sweet Potato Gnocchi

Yum in my tum. Gluten and dairy free sweet potato gnocchi!

Just realised gnocchi is sorta like western dumplings? 

I've never made my own pasta before, which is why I was really excited to make these! I'm honestly so happy with the way they turned out. If you like sweet potato you'll absolutely love these. You can really use any herb in place of rosemary, but I think rosemary goes fantastic with sweet potato! 

The pasta can be a little sticky, so when you're forming the little gnocchi pieces use slightly damp hands and a slightly damp fork. Water repels the stickiness :D 

What you'll need 

160g sweet potato 

1/4 cup all purpose gluten free flour blend

1 egg white, beaten

1/4 tsp smoked paprika

Water and a fork/gnocchi board

2 tsp olive oil

1/4 tsp butter extract 

1 tbsp fresh rosemary leaves 

1/2 tsp minced garlic 

Black pepper 

Cherry tomatoes

How to 

1. Scrub sweet potato and poke holes in it with a knife. Bake the sweet potato in a preheated oven at 200C for 1h. Let the sweet potato cool, scrape out the insides and mash. 

2. Mix flour, egg white and smoked paprika into the sweet potato. Combine well into a slightly sticky dough. 

3. Take a teaspoon of dough and roll it into a oval shaped sphere aka an ovoid! Roll it on the fork to make the line indents you commonly see on gnocchi. Set aside and repeat until the dough is used up. 

4. Set gnocchi aside to air dry for an hour. Then cook gnocchi in boiling water for a few minutes until they float to the surface. Remove with a sieve or slotted spoon. 

5. Heat olive oil and butter extract in a pan over high heat. Fry garlic and rosemary. When fragrant immediately turn off heat and toss in gnocchi. Serve with black pepper and cherry tomatoes!

Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

I love sweet potato. My favourite way to eat it has always been twice baked (recipe posted before). But this new method may be just as good if not better! This is great to serve at a party because the hasselback effect just looks really.. Cool. 

Usually I don't bake my potatoes with oil but I did use some this time. OMG it makes a huge difference. Like it gets all crispy and stuff :O Look!

I served mine with otah stuffed baked chicken. Just slit a chicken breast, stuffed some otah in the centre, sealed with toothpicks, seasoned and backed it :D 

What you'll need

1 sweet potato (150g ish)

1 tsp olive oil

1/4 tsp butter extract

1/2 tsp minced garlic

1 tbsp chopped parsley 

How to

Preheat oven to 200C. 

1. Slice sweet potato 3/4 way down into 0.3 - 0.5 cm thick slices. No need to be too precise actually.

2. Mix olive oil, butter extract, minced garlic and parsley together. Rub mixture all over the sweet potato and don't forget to get between the slices. It helps to use a butter knife!!

3. Bake for 45min. Fan out the slices with a butter knife and your hands. Curve the sweet potato back slightly to help the slices fan out! 

4. Bake for 10 more minutes and eat! If you want you can serve this with greek yogurt and chives :-)

Sweet Potato Bacon Pasta

If you love sweet potatoes you'll love this! And bacon <3 <3 And so damn simple. I served mine with microwaved broccoli and baked chicken marinated in Mrs Dash Original Seasoning! 

What you'll need

40g dry wholemeal/brown rice/quinoa pasta

1/4 cup steamed sweet potato

1/4 cup water (or milk) 

2 slices turkey bacon, chopped

1/2 tsp garlic 

1 tsp fresh thyme leaves 

1/4 cup water from cooking the pasta

Method

1. Cook pasta. Save 1/4 cup of the cooking water.

2. Blend sweet potato with 1/4 cup plain water.

3. Fry turkey bacon pieces in a small non stick pot.

4. When the bacon is almost cooked. Add garlic and thyme. Sauté. 

5. Next add sweet potato purée and leftover cooking water. 

4. Cook until thickened and then stir in cooked pasta :) 

PBJ Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

So a while back I made these savory twice baked sweet potato. It was absolutely divine. Here is the sweet version of it :) I'm sorry this isn't a very creative flavour haha. Like I said on instagram, this tastes like a PBJ sandwich in a sweet potato! Doesn't that sound good? (you're meant to say yes). Anyway let me know if you guys try this one out :D

What you'll need
1 200g sweet potato (though you only need half)
1 tbsp peanut butter
1 tbsp cottage cheese
1 tbsp strawberry jam (I used st dalfour)
1/4 tsp cinnamon

Chopped strawberries
1 tbsp peanut flour mixed with water (not crucial)

How to
1. Wash and scrub your sweet potato. Poke holes in the skin. Bake in a preheated oven at 190C for 1h.
2. Scoop out the insides and mash with peanut butter, cottage cheese, strawberry jam and cinnamon.
3. Spoon mash back into sweet potato skin.
4. Bake for 15min more.
5. Drizzle with peanut flour sauce and chopped strawberries.

Sweet Potato Salmon Nomcakes

Now that I'm done ebooking I'll be posting a lot more! These were inspired by these 'Ugly Salmon Cakes' (yes they're called that) my mom ordered at a restaurant on Father's Day. My mum says mine tastes better and she really loved them. I did too and though they aren't all that pretty, they taste pretty damn good.