Pan fried sweet potatoes

Enjoy these pan fried sweet potatoes on the side or pair them up with tortilla & cheese slices to make a quick veggie wrap. I often make lettuce wraps with these sweet potatoes too, see the picture below.


Ingredients :

3 Large Sweet Potatoes - peeled and diced
1 tbsp olive oil or butter
1 tsp Paprika / red chili powder
1 tsp roasted cumin seed powder
(if available use Jeeravan-Masala instead of cumin powder)
2 tsp lemon juice
2 tbsp roasted sunflower seeds
Freshly chopped Cilantro
Salt to taste



Directions :

1) Heat oil in a large pan. Add sweet potatoes and sprinkle salt, red chilli powder and cumin powder or jeeravan. ( I love the tangy flavour of jeeravan and it goes really well with the sweet potatoes. ) Toss the diced sweet potatoes and coat them with oil and the seasonings.
2) Keep the heat on medium and let the potatoes cook until they are lightly browned on the underside. This may take around 5 minutes.
3) Turn the heat down to medium low and toss the potatoes and cook for 3 minutes until it's lightly brown on the other side. Toss and repeat till the sweet potatoes are easily pierced with a fork. It should take more than 15-18 minutes in total.
4) After you turn off the heat, add lemon juice, cilantro and sunflower seeds and toss.

Romaine lettuce topped the sweet potatoes, Kalmata olives and shredded cheese.