Sweet potato bean

This dish is a meal on its own as it has both carbohydrates (sweet potato) and protein (bean). It's adapted from a site that was recommeded in the Fitbit community.

The ingredient list is as follows...

Sweet potato - 3 small

Cowpea beans (vanpayar) - 1 and 1/2 cup

Olive oil - 2 tsp

Spring onions - 2 with leaf

Ginger - 1 and 1/2"

Garlic - 5 or 6

Green chili - 1

Tomato - 1

Pink rock salt, crushed - 1 tsp

Pepper - 1/4 tsp

Turmeric powder - a pinch

Kashmiri chili powder - a pinch

Water - 1/2 cup

Lemon - 1/2

Scrub the skin of sweet potato to remove any dirt. Peel skin and chop into cubes. In a baking tray, toss the cubes along with a sprinkle of olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake at 210C for 20 minutes. 

Soak beans overnight and change the water at least 2 or 3 times. Drain. Pressure cook with some water and a pinch of salt, until just soft (not too mashed). Strain off excess water.

Mince green chili, ginger, garlic. Chop spring onions and keep the chopped leaves aside. Heat a saucepan with oil. Add spring onions, ginger, garlic and chili. Stir for a few minutes. Add chopped tomato. Stir. Add the spices. Stir for a minute or two. Turn off heat. When it cools down, grind to a rough paste. In the same saucepan, add sweet potato and bean. Add ground masala and water. Stir to combine. Add chopped spring onion leaves. Cook for a few minutes so that the potato and bean absorb the spices. Squeeze juice of lemon. Stir well. Serve hot.

While taking a break from the kitchen, I saw a sight that I felt was worthy of a picture....two birds high up there enjoying the view :-)