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#WFD – Chilli Con Carne Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Serve with smashed avo and sprouts.

POLOKWANE – Whole roasted sweet potatoes filled with Mexican inspired beef mince will make for a delicious family favourite topped with cheese, smashed avo and sprouts, says What’s for Dinner.

Ingredients

– Four sweet potatoes
– 500g beef mince
– Two red onions, chopped
– One red pepper, chopped
– Four garlic cloves, crushed
– Two tsp Robertsons Paprika
– Two tsp Robertsons Cumin
– One tsp Robertsons Origanum
– One tsp Chilli Powder
– One tin tomato and onion mix
– One KNORR Beef Stock Pot
– One tin kidney beans
– salt and pepper (to taste)
– One cup mozzarella cheese, grated
– smashed avo
– sprouts
– olive oil (as indicated in recipe)

Method

– Poke holes in each sweet potato with a fork, place the potatoes on a baking tray and drizzle with olive oil. Season with salt before baking at 180 until soft.
– Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a pot, brown the beef mince and remove from the pan.
– Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a large pot. Fry the chopped onions, pepper, crushed garlic together with the paprika, cumin, origanum and chilli powder until fragrant.
– Add the tin of tomato and onion mix, Knorr beef stock pot, salt & pepper to taste and kidney beans to the pot followed by the cooked mince. Stir to combine.
– Slice open each sweet potato and stuff with the chilli con carne mixture.
– Top with the grated cheese and bake in the oven at 180°C until the cheese is melted.
– Serve with smashed avo and sprouts.

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard

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