Meat Free Recipes

Sweet potato parcel

Sweet potato parcel

This weeks meat free recipe is sweet potato parcel

Ingredients

  • 4 Sweet potatoes (peeled and cut into 2-3cm chunks)
  • 5 tbsp cold pressed rapeseed oil
  • 1 onion (thinly sliced)
  • 2 large garlic cloves (crushed)
  • 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
  • 1 small bunch sage (leaves sliced)
  • 180g pack chestnuts (roughly chopped)
  • 3 tbsp cranberry sauce
  • 5 sheets filo pastry

Method

  1. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the potatoes on to a baking tray and toss with 1 tbsp of the oil., season and roast for 25 minutes.
  2. In the meantime, heat another 1 tbsp of oil in a frying pan and cook the onion over a medium heat for about 7-10 minutes to soften, stir in the garlic, chilli flakes and sage. Cook for another 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the chestnuts, cranberry sauce and the sweet potato cubes. Season a little.
  3. Line a 20cm square tin with a rectangle of baking paper that comes up two sides of the tin. Put 1 sheet of filo into the tin, brush it a little with the remaining oil, then add another piece of filo in the other direction (like a cross) brush more oil and repeat with two more pieces of the filo.
  4. Spoon in the sweet potato mixture into the tin and fold over the filo, brush oil over the top.
  5. Place in the oven for 30 minutes it should become golden and crispy on top.

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