Thursday, January 27, 2011

baked sweet potato with "cheese sauce"


i did my own thing for dinner tonight. still adhering to the basic principles of thrive, aside from baking at a rather high temp. it was delicious! here's the recipe for 1, sean's driving tonight and i had already made milo his banana buckwheat pancakes before i ever got around to thinking of what to have myself.....

1 sweet potato, ends trimmed. (brush with olive oil all over & a sprinkle of sea salt if you so desire.)

bake the potato on a baking sheet (they tend to get a little sticky while baking) in a 385* oven for 35-40 min.

while the potato is in the oven...

prepare a 1/2 recipe of CREAMY NUTRITIONAL YEAST SAUCE (click for link to previous post, you'll have to scroll to the bottom for the recipe),

fry 1/2 a diced sweet onion in a little live oil until it begins to caramelize,

AND chop up a handful of baby spinach.

when potato is out of the oven, slice down the center with a serrated knife and open up as you would a regular baked potato.

top with chopped spinach, followed by the creamy nutritional yeast sauce and lastly the caramelized onion.

i also just remembered that i was going to top the whole thing with some crumbled leftover almond burger....actually what prompted me to think up the recipe in the first place....i forgot. next time! i will definitely be making these again.

2 comments:

  1. Do you grind the sunflower seeds for the cheese sauce, or do you leave them whole?

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  2. it does not say to grind them in the recipe and so far i haven't but the thought actually crossed my mind tonight : )

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