Roasted Sweet Potatoes With Fennel
Recipe inspired from the Indian, Greek and Brazilian cuisine
Sweet potatoes are really nutritious! They are a great source of fiber, vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates. Thus, using it as an alternative to the common potatoes is not only a tasty solution, but also a healthy one.
As sweet potatoes are not consumed often in the Mediterranean diet, I didn’t eat them much while growing up. However, coming to Switzerland, they became a necessary part of my diet at least once per month. You can find them everywhere, in the supermarket, the Indian or Shri Lankan stores or even the local market.
The first time that I tried them was from a Brazilian friend who made them with sweet red onions in the oven. I loved them as a side dish, but as a busy mother I wanted to develop a recipe that it could also be eaten as a main dish for a quick plant based dinner.
This is how I came up with this recipe inspired from the cuisine of three different countries, Brazilian, Indian and Greek. Sweet potatoes are quite heavy and warming. So, eating them during the winter that it’s also the season of fennels, a really aromatic and nutritious plant low in calories is a combination that we love at home.
Preparation: 10min
Cooking time: 40min
Difficulty: Easy
Recipe
Ingredients for 4 people
1-2 fennel bulbs
2 big red onions
1 tsp. cumin powder
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/3 cup fresh parsley leaves
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Chop the sweet potatoes in medium/thick pieces and put them in a roasting pan.
- Chop the fennel in smaller and thinner pieces and the onions in very thin and long pieces and add them in the pan.
- Add the salt, the spices, the chopped parsley and the olive oil and mix well.
- Cover the pan and let them get cooked in a preheated oven at 200oC for 30min.
- Uncover the pan, mix them a bit and let them get cooked 5-10 more minutes in the air in order to get a bit roasted.
Tips
- You can enjoy them with feta cheese and some white wine or accompany a meat or fish dish.
- I also like to prepare this recipe when we invite friends over to chill out. It’s a dish that everybody enjoys, including the children and that goes well with alcohol or salty snacks.
Nutritional Value
Serving 1 cup | Calories: 374| Total carbohydrates: 53.8g|Sugars: 4g| Fiber: 9.9g| Protein: 4.1g| Total fat: 17.4g|Saturated fat: 2.5g| Calcium: 85mg|Iron: 2mg|Potassium: 1616mg |Cholesterol: 0mg| Sodium: 632mg