Sweet Potato Salad #MeatlessMonday

Although I really love Sweet Potato, I seldom managed to cook it without it being mushy.  And mushy is absolutely fine – but not in a salad!  Also, I’m so used to it being served with lots of sugar/honey/butter, etc.  So I was keen to try a ‘healthier’ option. So with this one I actually didn’t do too bad!

So here is a lovely Meatless Monday salad!  It is based on a recipe I saw in the Ideas Magazine a while ago, but I did tweak the quantities and ingredients a bit.

 

160g cooked sweet potato cubes (soft but not mushy!), kept aside to cool

50g grated carrots

2 – 3 sundried tomatoes, cut into strips

30g low fat feta, crumbed

1/4 red onion, chopped

Mix all these ingredients together

 

Dressing – mix 30ml low fat mayonaise, 30ml white wine vinegar, about 1 ml Worcestershire Sauce

 

To serve – lettuce and chopped fresh parsley

 

Putting it all together for serving:

Place sweet potato mix on a bed of lettuce, drizzle dressing over and top with some freshly chopped parsley

 

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WL breakdown:  2 CC, 1 fat, 1 Prot, 1 Veg

 

 

 

Warm Potato and Roasted Veggie Salad

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Serves 1 – 2 CC, 1 Prot, 1 Fat, 2 Veg

200g baby potatoes, quartered and parcooked

50g yellow pepper cored and cut into quarters

50g red onion, peeled and quarterd

100g butternut cubes

5ml olive oil

Lemon Juice

30g low fat feta

Salt and Black Pepper

Balsamic Vinegar

Line baking tray with foil and coat with non-stick cooking spray. Arrange veggies and potatoes on baking tray and sprinkle with olive oil, and a generous squirt of lemon juice. Season. Oven roast at 160C for about 40 minutes until peppers blister.

Toss together and serve with crumbed feta and balsamic vinegar.