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Sweet Potato Quesadillas

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Quesadillas are an anytime meal. They take just 5 minutes to make, and everyone adores them. You can snack on them at a party, they make a late-home-from-work dinner, and they even work at breakfast.

Most places have started to stock chipotle paste these days, which has made its sweet smokiness more easy to come by. If you can’t get your hands on chipotle, some hot smoked paprika will do.

Duration
20 mins
Difficulty
Easy
Serves
2 as dinner or 4 as snacks
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Ingredients

  • olive oil
  • 1 sweet potato, peeled and grated
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon chipotle paste
  • 1 red chilli, finely chopped
  • 1 × 400g tin of white beans, drained (I use haricots)
  • 1 avocado
  • 1⁄2 a lime
  • a few sprigs of fresh mint or coriander, leaves picked and chopped
  • 4 corn tortillas
  1. To make the sweet potato mix

    Heat a touch of olive oil in a pan, add the sweet potato and the maple syrup and season with salt and pepper. Add the chipotle paste and the chopped chilli and cook for a few minutes, until the potato has softened and lost its rawness.

  2. Transfer to a bowl and add the beans, then use a potato masher to mash the whole lot up a little – you will still have some flecks of unmashed sweet potato. Season if needed.

  3. Mash the avocado with a little lime juice and stir in the herbs. I use the potato masher again here.

  4. To make the tortillas

    Now heat a frying pan big enough for your tortillas. Lay a tortilla fat in the pan, spoon a quarter of the mixture on to one half of it, then fold over the other half. Dry fry on one side until it’s blistered and golden brown, then flip over and do the same on the other side. Keep the quesadilla warm while you do this with the rest of the tortillas.

  5. To serve

    Serve straight from the pan with the mashed avocado.

    As part of a big meal:

    • Serve with a couple of handfuls of lemon-dressed salad leaves.
    • Serve with a crunchy salad of radishes, leaves, shaved fennel, coriander and a quick tomato salsa.

Additional information

Storage

Store
Cool and wrap in greaseproof paper and store in airtight container in fridge for up to 3 days
Freeze
Up to 1 month

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