Hasselback sweet potatoes with vegan cheese sauce

Photographer: Steve Brown

When your side dish steals the spotlight! Hasselback sweet potatoes with creamy cashew cheese prove vegan food can be hearty, nourishing and seriously delicious.

Serves: 4 (as a side)

Time to make: 55 mins

Ingredients

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4 (about 1kg) small long sweet potatoes/ kumarasweet-potatoX
1 lemon, juice
1 tablespoon ground turmeric
150g baby Brussels sprouts, shaved
micro herbs or chopped fresh parsley leaves, to serve
cashew cheese sauce
175 raw cashews
1 cup boiling water
½ cup oat milk
½ teaspoon tapioca starch
2 teaspoons nutritional yeast
1 tablespoon tahini
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Instructions

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1 Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

2 Place a sweet potato on a chopping board. Place a bamboo skewer on the board on each side of the sweet potato to prevent knife from going all the way through when slicing. Using a sharp knife, slice sweet potato vertically into 5mm slits. Repeat with remaining sweet potatoes.

3 Drizzle lemon over potatoes and sprinkle with turmeric. Bake for 45 minutes until almost tender.

4 Meanwhile, to make the cheese sauce, place cashews and boiling water in a small bowl and set aside for 10 minutes.

5 In a food processor place cashews and soaking water, oat milk, tapioca starch, nutritional yeast, tahini, garlic and lemon juice. Blitz until creamy and smooth, and set aside.

6 Place sweet potatoes in a serving dish. Add Brussels sprouts and top with cheese sauce and microherbs or chopped parsley leaves To serve.

HFG tip

Any leftover cheese sauce can be stored into a glass jar for up to 1 week in the fridge.

Nutrition Info (per serve)

Calories 445 cal

Kilojoules 1860 kJ

Protein 14 g

Total fat 26 g

Saturated fat 4 g

Carbohydrates 32 g

Sugar 9.7 g

Dietary fibre 11 g

Sodium 78 mg

Calcium 187 mg

Iron 6 mg

Note: This nutrition analysis is a guide only. Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. See our guides on your optimal daily nutrition intake, and supermarket shopping.