THRIVE 55
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2 sweet potatoes
1 tin chickpeas
1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
½ cucumber, diced
1 cup parsley
Salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder
Black sesame seeds
½ lime, for garnishSauce
¼ cup tahini
Juice of ½ lime
¼ cup water (or more if you prefer a
thinner sauce)
Salt and pepper, to tastemethod
Place both sweet potatoes in the oven and bake
for 20 minutes. When slightly softened, take them
out and slice them in half. Pop them back in the
oven for another 30-40 minutes or until cooked.While baking, rinse your chickpeas and mix with
onion powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper
and put in oven underneath the sweet potato.
Bake for 40 minutes or until they have crisped up.Mix the sauce ingredients together.Slice cherry tomatoes in half, dice cucumber
and pluck parsley for your garnishes.When everything is ready, assemble your dish.
Fluff the centers of your sweet potatoes and
place on the plate. Drizzle sauce over them,
toss your chickpeas around and add your
garnishes of cucumber, tomato, parsley,
half lime and black sesame seeds
to finish.muSt-tryS!
baked middle eastern Sweet potato
Fusion
Experiment
Everyone should try experimenting with
fusion cuisine! Combining elements from
different traditional cuisines can make
food extra special—and with cultural
diversity being every bit as exciting in
cooking as in other aspects of life, I find
it incredibly satisfying to experiment
with different ingredients and flavors in
the kitchen.Ginger is particularly underused. It
can be included in so many different
ways to lift a dish to a whole new
level. That and wild mushrooms, plus
cinnamon in savory dishes—and never
underestimate a dose of fresh cracked
black pepper!My biggest food secret is learning how
to prepare, marinate and cook tofu
properly. If you can look at tofu like a
blank slate—a carrier of flavor, if you
will—the possibilities are endless. Tofu
is my blank canvas, where I can paint
whatever I wish.Discover hedgehog mushrooms. I had
the pleasure of trying them for the
first time during a recent trip overseas.
They were deep-fried and delicious. The
texture was new and quite sensational.
They were absolutely incredible, and I
can’t wait to experiment with them
in the future.