Healthy Spiced Sweet Potato and Okra Puffs Recipe

Spiced Sweet Potato and Okra Puffs Recipe

Okra makes a surprising addition to these lovely spiced puffs, which are perfect for lunch or lunch boxes, or as a side for dinner.

Serves: 4

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Spiced Sweet Potato and Okra Puffs Recipe

By: Meg Thompson

Okra makes a surprising addition to these lovely spiced puffs, which are perfect for lunch or lunch boxes, or as a side for dinner.


Servings

Serves: 4

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp butter or oil
  • 1 onion, peeled & diced
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 1 sweet potato, diced
  • ½ tsp sea salt
  • 100g okra, sliced into roughly 2cm pieces, hard stems removed
  • 1 tin tomatoes
  • 1 tin chickpeas, drained & rinsed
  • 2 sheets good-quality puff pastry

Method


  • Preheat oven to 160°C.
  • Add butter or oil to saucepan and place on medium heat.
  • Add onion and sauté for 5 mins, until soft.
  • Next, add sweet potato, salt, okra, tomato and chickpeas and cook for 15 mins, until just tender.
  • Cut each sheet of puff pastry into 4 quarters and to each add some mixture, folding over corner and sealing around edges.
  • Place parcels on lined baking tray and bake for 15 mins, or until pastry is golden.

  

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Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson is a practising naturopath, cook, mother, writer and passionate wholefood enthusiast based in Melbourne. Meg’s interest in health, food and the role of food as medicine has shaped her career and lifestyle. Following an early career in psychology and education, she completed studies in naturopathy, nutrition and herbal medicine and now runs a successful clinical practice. Meg works from a philosophy that food is much more than something to fill our bellies, but a source of nourishment, deliciousness, education, ritual and celebration, best shared with those we love.

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