What’s for dinner? Warm bacon, lime and sweet potato salad

Serves 6 as a side

You’ll need: 1 packet (200g) Streaky bacon; 4 (about 800g) orange flesh sweet potatoes, cut into rounds; 4 garlic cloves, chopped; 30ml Clover Olive Pride Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

For the dressing – Juice of 1 lime; 30ml Clover Olive Pride Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 30ml Balsamic vinegar; 2 spring onions, sliced; 1 cup fresh dill, roughly chopped; 15ml dried chilli flakes; 5ml Cinnamon, ground; salt and black pepper to taste.

How to:

Preheat the oven to 190°C.

Line a rimmed baking tray with aluminium foil and arrange bacon in a single layer on the foil.  

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the bacon is slightly crispy. Remove from the oven and allow to cool, then roughly chop and set aside (leaving the oven on for the sweet potatoes).

In a roasting pan, toss the sweet potatoes and garlic in the olive oil and roast for about 30 minutes, or until slightly browned.

While the sweet potatoes are roasting, make the dressing. Whisk together the lime juice, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Add the spring onions, dill, chilli flakes, cinnamon, salt and pepper and mix well.

Once the sweet potatoes have finished cooking and are still warm, move them to a serving dish, pour over the dressing, toss well and sprinkle with the bacon bits. 

Serve warm.

* Recipe & image by Clover Mama Afrika Recipe Book – I cook, because we eat!. By purchasing the cookbook, you will be actively helping women around South Africa achieve their small business dreams through the Clover Mama Afrika project, which aims to identify women who are already agents of change in their communities and helps train them to become self-sustaining women with skills which they can use to derive an income from, to support orphaned and abused children and the elderly and infirm. Get it from Lapa Publishers for R230.