Roasted Sweet Potato Salad with Prawns
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In the meantime, this is a super easy salad that serves as a (low carb) meal...as do all of these:

Need
- 2 Tablespoons pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
- 2 Tablespoons sunflower seeds
- 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chips
- 1/2 head of broccoli, cut into florets
- 2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- pink salt flakes and pepper to taste BUY
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The Dressing
- 1 cloves garlic
- 1 red chilli
- 3 fresh coriander or cilantro roots and stems
- 70 Grams fresh lemon juice plus zest from the lemons
- 70 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 1 Teaspoon Jerk Spice Mix Recipe
- 1 Teaspoon honey
- pink salt flakes and pepper to taste BUY
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The Rest
- 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 400 Grams raw prawns, peeled, tail on
- Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
- 100 Grams baby spinach leaves
- Handfuls rocket leaves
Do
- 1
Preheat oven to 180°C.
- 2
While the oven is heating up, place the seeds on a tray and in to the warm oven for 6 minutes to toast. Set aside.
- 3
Line 2 oven trays with baking paper.
- 4
Place sweet potato on one tray and broccoli on the other. Drizzle with EVOO and season with salt and pepper.
- 5
Roast for 20 minutes. Take out broccoli. Continue roasting the sweet potato for another 20 minutes. Set aside.
- 6
To make the dressing, place all ingredients into the Thermomix bowl. Blend 10 sec/speed 10. Set aside.
- 7
In a hot pan heat up a splash of EVOO. Salt the prawns then fry until brown on both sides.
- 8
To assemble the salad, on a large platter place spinach and rocket, top with roast sweet potato and broccoli. Followed by prawns. Pour over the dressing and top with the seeds. Serve immediately.
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Bree is a mum who has always loved cooking and baking and became a big Tenina fan when she got her first Thermomix. She was on the very first foodie trip as a customer and hasn't looked back, working for Tenina for over 5 years as a recipe tester and developer, branching out into video master for all of Tenina's lives! She still runs her baking business, creating amazing cakes and macarons for her customer list.