Sweet potato and feta cheese salad

We’ve made this sweet potato and feta cheese salad a hundred times.

Sweet potato and feta cheese salad

Ingredients

• ½ sweet potato
• ½ onion
• 2 cloves garlic, unpeeled
• ½ tsp paprika
• Salt and pepper
• Olive oil
• 100g feta cheese, cut into squares
• Handful cashew nuts
• Mixed salad leaves
• Handful pomegranate seeds
• 1 spring onion, sliced
• Chilli flakes
• Balsamic vinegar

Method

1. Cut the potato into wedges, peel the onion and cut into wedges.
2. Season with salt, pepper and paprika and rub with olive oil.
3. Place onto a baking tray and add the garlic cloves still in their skin.
4. Roast for 30 mins, at 200°C, until soft but not mushy.
5. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
6. To assemble the salad, place the salad leaves onto a plate and top with the cooked sweet potato, feta cheese, cashew nuts, pomegranate seeds and sliced spring onions.
7. Sprinkle with balsamic vinegar and chilli flakes and serve.

Monique Chambers

Monique started indulge in 2011 and has since created Indulge Me GIFT and Indulge Me FOOD and volume 1 of The Artists Directory - Malta. A marketing professional by trade, Monique's passion is to promote local talent and Malta in general. Free time is her biggest indulgence, when she can tinker in her craft room or the kitchen, or be selfish with a book, the sofa and good glass of wine (of course, wearing something beautiful and with freshly coiffed hair!)