Wahoo for sweet potatoes being in season! Sweet potatoes, like mushrooms and olives, are a food that I have only enjoyed since going vegetarian - Brett has always loved them. Do we ever enjoy them now though! They are incredibly versatile, easy to work with, and have I mentioned delicious?
I don't know about anyone else, but we
love sweet potatoes in Mexican food. I can't speak for Brett on this one, but I also
love sweet potatoes in
spicy Mexican food. They work great in quesadillas, who needs cheese? In fact, both Brett and I agree that putting cheese and sweet potatoes together just sounds plain gross any way. So I guess this, and most of the other things I try to pass off as a "quesadilla" aren't really since there is no cheese in most of them - real or fake. I just don't know what else to call a folded over stuffed tortilla - so alas, my poor attempts at a Spanish translation and the misnomer "quesadilla" is what you all have to settle for.
But you guys
do get a picture and a yummy recipe, so perhaps my minor indiscretions aren't so bad after all, eh? ;-)
Just a reminder of the produce legend:
no asterisk = grocery store
* = farmer's market
** = CSA
*** = Container or Community Garden
Quesadillas de Frijoles Negros, Batata, y Seta 1 large sweet potato,
roasted *
chipotle chili powder
cinnamon
1 cup black beans, cooked
1/2 cup long grain brown rice, cooked
2 cups white button mushrooms, sliced
1 bell pepper, seeded and minced **
1 habanero pepper, seeded and minced *
1 spicy mystery pepper from our CSA, seeded and minced (jalapeno, serranos, or another habanero would work just fine) **
4 cloves of garlic, minced *
1/2 a yellow onion, minced *
1 large tomato, chopped **
1/4 cup salsa
cumin
ground coriander
Mexican oregano
white pepper
salt
tortillas
Green Chile Taco Sauce (*, **, and ***)
After sweet potato is baked, remove flesh from the skin and mash with chipotle chili powder and cinnamon. Set aside.
Meanwhile, heat a few tablespoons of water in a large skillet. Add the mushrooms, peppers, garlic, and onion and cook for 10-15 minutes.
Add the beans, rice, tomatoes, salsa and spices and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Layer sweet potatoes and bean/rice/veggie mixture in warmed tortillas and
fry if desired.
Serve with Green Chile Taco Sauce (or other spicy thin salsa).
Yummy, local, healthy, and veg*n. Wahoo!
'Til next time!
I don't know about anyone else, but we love sweet potatoes in Mexican food. I can't speak for Brett on this one, but I also love sweet potatoes in spicy Mexican food. They work great in quesadillas, who needs cheese? In fact, both Brett and I agree that putting cheese and sweet potatoes together just sounds plain gross any way. So I guess this, and most of the other things I try to pass off as a "quesadilla" aren't really since there is no cheese in most of them - real or fake. I just don't know what else to call a folded over stuffed tortilla - so alas, my poor attempts at a Spanish translation and the misnomer "quesadilla" is what you all have to settle for.
But you guys do get a picture and a yummy recipe, so perhaps my minor indiscretions aren't so bad after all, eh? ;-)
Just a reminder of the produce legend:
no asterisk = grocery store
* = farmer's market
** = CSA
*** = Container or Community Garden
Quesadillas de Frijoles Negros, Batata, y Seta
1 large sweet potato, roasted *
chipotle chili powder
cinnamon
1 cup black beans, cooked
1/2 cup long grain brown rice, cooked
2 cups white button mushrooms, sliced
1 bell pepper, seeded and minced **
1 habanero pepper, seeded and minced *
1 spicy mystery pepper from our CSA, seeded and minced (jalapeno, serranos, or another habanero would work just fine) **
4 cloves of garlic, minced *
1/2 a yellow onion, minced *
1 large tomato, chopped **
1/4 cup salsa
cumin
ground coriander
Mexican oregano
white pepper
salt
tortillas
Green Chile Taco Sauce (*, **, and ***)
After sweet potato is baked, remove flesh from the skin and mash with chipotle chili powder and cinnamon. Set aside.
Meanwhile, heat a few tablespoons of water in a large skillet. Add the mushrooms, peppers, garlic, and onion and cook for 10-15 minutes.
Add the beans, rice, tomatoes, salsa and spices and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Layer sweet potatoes and bean/rice/veggie mixture in warmed tortillas and fry if desired.
Serve with Green Chile Taco Sauce (or other spicy thin salsa).
Yummy, local, healthy, and veg*n. Wahoo!
'Til next time!