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#WFD – Chilli Con Carne Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Serve with smashed avo and sprouts.

POLOKWANE – Chilli con carne is a popular American dish comprising of a spicy stew containing chili peppers, meat, and often tomatoes and beans.

What’s for Dinner describes this dish as whole roasted sweet potatoes filled with Mexican inspired beef mince. A delicious family favourite topped with cheese, smashed avo and sprouts.

Ingredients

  1. 4 sweet potatoes
  2. 500g beef mince
  3. 2 red onions, chopped
  4. 1 red pepper, chopped
  5. 4 garlic cloves, crushed
  6. 2 tsp Robertsons Paprika
  7. 2 tsp Robertsons Cumin
  8. 1 tsp Robertsons Origanum
  9. 1 tsp Chilli Powder
  10. 1 tin tomato and onion mix
  11. 1 x KNORR Beef Stock Pot
  12. 1 tin kidney beans
  13. salt and pepper (to taste)
  14. 1 cup mozzarella cheese, grated
  15. smashed avo
  16. sprouts
  17. olive oil (as indicated in recipe)

Method

  1. 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.
  2. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a pot, brown the beef mince and remove from the pan.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Slice open each sweet potato and stuff with the chilli con carne mixture.
  6. Top with the grated cheese and bake in the oven at 180°C until the cheese is melted.
  7. 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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