Easy, healthy recipes with a southwestern flare
A spicy and creamy sweet potato soup made with just a few ingredients including Thai red curry paste and lime. Serve as a starter or entrée.
Next time you need a hearty and healthy side dish, whip up a batch of mashed sweet potatoes. They come together in less than 30 minutes. To add a little spice, use some New Mexico red chile sauce for gravy. You’ll be asking yourself “Why haven’t I done this before?”
Spicy Orange Sweet Potato home fried roasted in ghee (a type of clarified butter) then tossed with orange juice and a sprinkled of chile powder.
Enjoy a Sunday brunch of sweet potato hash browns topped with green chile, cheese, and an egg – my version of Albuquerque’s Frontier Restaurant’s Western-Style hash browns.
Who says potato salad has to be made with just one type of potato? I like a potato salad with variety. This one in particular has 3 types of potatoes (including a sweet potato), sweet relish, a few common vegetables and a nice mix of herbs and spices.
Massaged kale with a little lemon juice and olive oil, a honey dressing, topped with roasted sweet potatoes, pinon nuts, and feta. Make it a meal or a side.
It takes less than 30 minutes to make these wonderful mashed sweet potatoes with a brown butter bourbon sauce, a touch of milk and some salt and pepper.
Recipe for black bean tostadas along with a roundup of delicious recipes that use black beans as a primary ingredient.
The Suppertime Pileup is a meal in a bowl. This recipe uses sweet potatoes, onion, fennel, and andouille sausage all topped with an egg. For a vegetarian option, omit the andouille.
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