Sweet Potato Chilli Cheese Fries

Servings 3-4
Prep time 15

These oven baked sweet potato fries are sprinkled with spices, then smothered in an easy and deliciously zesty chili and cheese topping. Perfect as a colorful and mouthwatering side or as a scrumptiously decadent appetizer to set in the middle of the table and share, these sweet potato fries with chili cheese are an irresistibly fun treat!

Ingredients

  • For the Cheese Sauce:
  • 250g pumpkin puree; you can use butternut squash or sweet potato here as well
  • 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • 100g roast cashew butter
  • 250ml unsweetened almond or oat milk
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • ½ tsp garlic powder or 1 small clove of garlic minced
  • ¼ tsp black pepper
  • For the Chili:
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 small onion finely diced
  • 2 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1 finely chopped carrot
  • 1 diced red bell pepper
  • 1 can of pinto beans, drained and rinsed well
  • 1 can of kidney beans or black beans, drained and rinsed well
  • 800ml passata or two cans of crushed tomatoes
  • 250ml vegetable stock
  • 100g tomato paste
  • 1 tbsp cumin
  • ½ tbsp coriander
  • ½ tbsp coriander
  • ½ tbsp oregano
  • ½ tbsp chili powder
  • 20g (2 large squares) 70 - 85% dark chocolate
  • Salt to taste
  • Everything Else:
  • 1 bag Strong Roots Sweet Potato Fries
  • Spring onions and/ diced jalapeno peppers
  • method (tick as you go)

    1

    Blend together all cheese sauce ingredients in a high speed blender. Place sauce into a pot over a medium heat. Bring to the boil and then simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally to thicken.

    2

    Heat a pan over a medium heat with olive oil. Fry onion and garlic for 5 minutes

    3

    Add carrot and pepper to the pan and cook for a further 10 minutes.

    4

    Add beans, passata, tomato puree and stock, along with spices and oregano. Bring to the boil and cook for 20 minutes.

    5

    Stir through the chocolate and allow it to melt and thicken the sauce for the final 10 minutes of cooking.

    6

    Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 200C (400F).

    7

    Place sweet potato fries on a baking tray and cook while your chilli simmers.

    8

    Top cooked sweet potatoes with chili, cheese sauce and some spring onion and/diced jalapeno peppers.

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