Name: Sweet Potato Cakes with Lime and Avocado
Ingredients: 3 medium sweet potatoes (peeled and coarsely grated (about 4 cups/600 g)); 1 small red onion (finely chopped); 2 garlic cloves (crushed); 1- inch (2.5 cpiece fresh ginger root (peeled and finely grated); 2 tablespoons brown rice flour; 2 tablespoons cornstarch; 2 red chiles (1 finely chopped and 1 finely sliced); Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; Large handful of cilantro leaves (roughly chopped); ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons (90 molive oil or coconut butter (melted); 2 ripe avocados (halved and pitted); 2 limes (1 juiced and 1 quartered)

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Sweet Potato Cakes with Lime and Avocado

A beautiful little recipe, as suited for a sprightly lunch as for a leisurely weekend breakfast. Make it in a 9-inch (23 cm) frying pan if you don’t have the mini versions, and divide into quarters to serve. You can fold three lightly beaten eggs into the sweet potato mixture, though those cakes will be frittata-esque in style, or balance a poached egg on top (with the avocado, of course, and some hot sauce).

Course: Breakfast, Entree, Lunch

Cuisine: American

Keyword: sweet potato

Servings:

Author: Alice Hart

Ingredients

3 medium sweet potatoes peeled and coarsely grated (about 4 cups/600 g)
1 small red onion finely chopped
2 garlic cloves crushed
1- inch (2.5 cpiece fresh ginger root peeled and finely grated
2 tablespoons brown rice flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 red chiles 1 finely chopped and 1 finely sliced
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Large handful of cilantro leaves roughly chopped
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons (90 molive oil or coconut butter melted
2 ripe avocados halved and pitted
2 limes 1 juiced and 1 quartered

Instructions

Using a colander held under a cool tap, rinse the grated sweet potatoes until the water runs mostly clear. Squeeze the rinsed gratings in a clean kitchen towel to remove excess water, then transfer them into a large mixing bowl.
Add the onion, garlic, ginger, rice flour, cornstarch, the chopped chile, salt and pepper to taste, about 1 tablespoon of the cilantro and 2 tablespoons of the oil, and mix everything well.
Divide the remaining oil between 1½ × 6-inch (4 × 15 ccast-iron or heavy-bottomed frying pans—or a 9-inch (23 cpan to make a large cake—and place over high heat. Add one quarter of the potato mixture to each pan, or all of it to the large pan (it should sizzle loudland flatten firmly with a spatula. Reduce the heat to medium.
Cook each cake for 3 to 5 minutes (perhaps slightly longer for the larger version), then run a palette knife or spatula around the edge, transfer each cake out on to a flat plate, then slide back into its pan the other way up. (Don’t attempt to flip these unless you’re a black belt.) Return to the heat for about 3 minutes more until the underside is nicely browned.
Scoop the avocados out of their skins with a spoon and mash roughly with a little lime juice, the remaining cilantro, sliced chile and seasoning to taste. Serve each hot sweet potato cake with the avocado mixture spooned on top and lime quarters to squeeze over.

Notes

Recipe from The Way to Eat Now: Modern Vegetarian Food © Alice Hart, 2016, 2017. Photographs copyright © Emma Lee, 2016, 2017. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment. Available wherever books are sold. theexperimentpublishing.com

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