Food Friday- Sweet Potato and Goat Cheese

Hi everyone :)

Wow we haven't done one of these in a while have we? I don't even get why, I love cooking and baking so much but I tend to get so carried away with it that I forget taking pictures.

Last Monday, when I was cooking for my boyfriend I didn't forget though. So here is a slightly changed recipe from a Jerusalem cook book that my mum bought my grandma but somehow ended up on my bookshelf. 

Ingredients:

4 small sweet potatoes (1kg)

5 tbsp olive oil

40 ml balsamic vinegar

20 g sugar

8 spring onions

1 red chill

6 fresh figs 

2 about 1,5 cm thick slices of goat cheese

2 tbsp honey

a bit of Parmesan

sea salt, pepper

Preheat oven to 240°C.

Wash the sweet potatoes, cut in half lengthwise and slice up each half into 3 pieces. 

Mix 3 tablespoons of olive oil with 2 teaspoons of salt and a bit of pepper in a bowl. Add your sweet potato in and spread the spiced oil evenly. 

Put the slices with the skin on the downside onto a griddle (I would advise you to use baking paper, so the sweet potato doesn't stick to it).

Roast all that in the oven for 25 about 25 minutes. The sweet potato should be soft but not fall apart.

Heat the balsamic vinegar in a small pot and add the sugar. Let the mixture boil up and cook for about 2-4 minutes on a lower heat. It should get slightly thicker in it's consistency that's when you know you can take it off the stove.

sorry for the dirty stove. I do live with 3 guys :D

 It will still get thicker while it cools down so don't worry if you are not sure if you took it off to soon. If it doesn't turn out to be a sirupy texture then just add a bit of water when it's to thick or heat it up again (there really is no way this can go wrong).

Chop up your spring onions into ca. 4 cm long slices.

Next chop up the chili, don't chop it into too small pieces as you won't be able to avoid it in your food then. Cause with this dish you will be able to taste the chili, so if you have people that don't like it to spicy they can take them out. 

Put the rest of your olive oil, the spring onions and the chili in a pan and roast them gently for about 4 to 5 minutes.

After that only your goat cheese is left and you have to bear with me on this one as I can promise it will be delicious although it will probably not look like it :D

Heat up a bit of olive oil and the tablespoons of honey in a pan and roast your goat cheese in it. 

After that you just have to slice your figs in quarters and you are all set. Put the sweet potato on your plate and arrange them with the fig in any artsy way you can come up with. Or just stack everything on your plate that works too, especially if you are hungry :D

Add the spring onions and chili with the oil from the pan and sprinkle it with the balsamic vinegar sirup.

Grade some parmesan over the top if you feel like it :) 

Now find a free space for the goat cheese and you can get stuck in!

I didn't have the figs in there on Monday because they didn't have any at the store but it is good with or without them :)

Enjoy your meal.

x

J.