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Sri Lankan-style sweet potato curry recipe

Sri Lankan-style sweet potato curry recipe

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For a family dinner with a difference, try this Sri Lankan-inspired sweet potato curry recipe that's packed with warming spices. Make a quick curry paste with ginger, coriander, tikka powder and cashew nuts, and cook with sweet potatoes, creamy coconut milk, green beans and lemon. Make it vegan and gluten-free by simply swapping the stock cube for a veggie stock pot instead. See method

  • Serves 4
  • 10 mins to prepare and 40 mins to cook
  • 544 calories / serving
  • Vegetarian

Ingredients

  • ½ onion, roughly chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
  • 25g piece ginger, peeled and chopped
  • 15g fresh coriander, leaves and stalks separated, leaves chopped
  • 2½ tbsp medium tikka curry powder
  • 60g pack cashew nuts
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 500g Redmere Farms sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 3cm chunks
  • 400ml tin Island Sun coconut milk
  • ½ vegetable stock cube, made up to 300ml
  • 200g Grower's Harvest long-grain rice
  • 300g frozen green beans
  • 150g Redmere Farms spinach
  • 1 Suntrail Farms lemon, ½ juiced, ½ cut into wedges to serve
White rice can always be swapped for brown (check cooking instructions for timings)

Each serving contains

  • Energy

    2290kj
    544kcal
    27%
  • Fat

    20g 28%
  • Saturates

    8g 41%
  • Sugars

    14g 15%
  • Salt

    1g 16%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 84.2g Protein 12.1g Fibre 8.4g

Method

  1. Put the onion, garlic, ginger, coriander stalks, tikka powder and half the cashew nuts in a food processor. Add 2 tbsp water and blitz into a chunky paste.
  2. In a large nonstick saucepan, heat the oil over a medium heat. Add the paste and cook, stirring, for 5 mins. Add the sweet potatoes, stir, then pour in the coconut milk and stock. Bring to the boil and simmer for 25-35 mins until the sweet potatoes are tender.
  3. Meanwhile, cook the rice to pack instructions. Toast the remaining cashews in a dry frying pan.
  4. Stir the green beans into the curry and simmer for 2 mins. Add the spinach in handfuls, allowing each to wilt before adding the next; simmer for 1 min. Add the lemon juice, to taste, and most of the coriander leaves. Scatter over the remaining coriander and cashews, then serve with the rice and lemon wedges.

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