Jacket sweet potatoes. Jacket Sweet Potatoes This recipe is from Good and Cheap. Microwave jacket sweet potatoes make a wonderfully quick and easy meal. Take your pick of these three delicious fillings, or make all of them!
There's a lot of chatter on the interweb about one versus the other.
But, they are both highly nutritious in their own right.
Mark Sergeant's jacket sweet potato with soured cream, chives and chilli.
You can cook Jacket sweet potatoes using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Jacket sweet potatoes
- Prepare 4 of sweet potatoes, skin-on.
- You need 400 g of can chickpeas, rinsed and drained.
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of harissa paste.
- Prepare 150 g of marinated feta, drained and crumbled.
- It's 2 of truss tomatoes, roughly chopped.
- Prepare 1/2 bunch of coriander, leaves chopped.
- You need 1 tablespoon of finely chopped preserved lemon rind.
- You need 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil.
A simple supper, full of flavour. High in nutritional value, and lower in calories than white potatoes, sweet potatoes make an easy side dish for dinner or a light lunch. Read on to learn how to bake sweet potatoes in the oven to bring out their sweetness and achieve that light, fluffy texture we all love. Here sweet potatoes are stuffed with an eggplant-tomato mix topped with Moroccan spices, a combo called zaalouk.
Jacket sweet potatoes instructions
- Pierce potatoes all over with a fork. Place on a plate and microwave on high, turning halfway, for 8 minutes or until tender.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven grill to high. Combine chickpeas and harissa in a bowl, then place on a baking tray and grill for 4 minutes or until crisp.
- Slice potatoes lengthways, leaving them attached on one end to form a ‘pocket’. Place on a baking tray. Top with chickpeas and feta. Grill for 4 minutes or until golden.
- Combine tomato, coriander, preserved lemon and oil in a bowl. Season.
- Top potatoes with salsa to serve.
When ready, the potatoes should be easily pierced with a fork or paring knife all the way to the center. Baking the sweet potatoes eliminates the prep work of peeling, chopping, boiling, and draining for tender potatoes. While baking takes at least an hour in the oven, this step is completely hands-off and can be done several days in advance. Baking the sweet potatoes until tender also makes them incredibly easy to mash. Take these baked sweet potatoes for instance.