Sweet Potato Wedges

These wedges are a wholesome, nutritious family favourite and a perfect side dish with burgers, coconut fried fish or chopped into a green vegetarian salad with some sun-dried tomato, goats cheese and sunflower seeds. Yum!

Sweet potato:
Sweet potato is full of important vitamins like B6 vitamins which is great for our hearts, Vitamin C which wards of colds & flu’s, Vitamin D which is critical for our immune system, iron which gives us energy, magnesium which relaxes us and potassium which helps to lower blood pressure.
It is also high in fibre which helps us to burn energy more slowly and efficiently.

Coconut Oil:
Coconut oil boosts HDL cholesterol (our good cholesterol), it’s high in anti-oxidants, anti-microbial and increases satiety. This oil stays stable (and therefore safe for our health) when cooking at high-temperatures.

Many of the ingredients in this recipe can be sourced from my one-stop-favourite, organic wholefoods online store, The Wholefood Collective. They go to great lengths to ensure everything they source is amazing quality, they stock all my favorite products and I don’t even have to leave the house! Oh and the cherry on the cake is they donate profits to improve food security for vulnerable Aussies.

Here are some of the ingredients you’ll need:

Coconut oil
Salt and black pepper

Sweet Potato Chips

Brenda Janschek

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Ingredients

  

• 2 large sweet potatoes
• 2 tablespoons of melted coconut oil heat in a ramekin in the oven for a couple minutes
• Salt (I prefer Himalayan rock salt or Celtic sea salt)
• Black pepper freshly ground

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C
• Peel the sweet potato and cut into wedges or thick fries
• Place in a bowl and toss with melted coconut oil, salt and pepper
• Place the wedges on baking paper on a large pan
• Bake for approx 45 mins
• Check after 30 mins and spin tray and sweet potato around

Notes

Add ¼ teaspoon of smoked paprika, cinnamon or nutmeg or add rosemary to sweet potato wedges for variety.
Making double the recipe means busy parents have a healthy snack on hand for lunch-boxes and after school.

Bren x