October 16, 2009: Leftover Makeover - Sweet'n'starchy Snacks

annual lab culinary contest was the biggest sweetness white patato I convey e'er seen. Some of it was transformed into sweet white patato in addition to adobo pies, in addition to enough to a greater extent than was merely diced in addition to roasted amongst olive oil, tabular array salt in addition to pepper. I set the terminal half-kilo to run amongst another leftovers - smoked tofu, silken tofu, mint, gow gee wrappers in addition to puff pastry - to brand some gently sweet, sweetness white patato snacks.

silverbeet in addition to celery gratin I late devised, in addition to it's the starting indicate here. You involve to slowly, gently develop the onions until they're golden in addition to caramelised, meanwhile baking the sweetness white patato chunks until they convey a similarly caramel crust. Cinnamon in addition to nutmeg heighten the sweetness, smoked tofu extends the flavour, spell the silken materials acts equally a creamy binder. Inspired past times those pumpkin ravioli, I added mint for a fleck of lift.

lemon agave sauce.

Sweet'n'starchy snack filling

500g sweetness potato, peeled in addition to finely diced
olive oil
salt in addition to pepper
1/2 onion, finely chopped
120g silken tofu, mashed
120g smoked tofu, finely diced
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
2 tablespoons chopped mint

Preheat an oven to 180°C, thence larn busy amongst all the chopping. Put the diced sweetness white patato on a baking tray, drizzle it lightly amongst olive crude oil in addition to flavor amongst tabular array salt in addition to pepper. Bake the sweetness potatoes, tossing them occasionally, until they're soft in addition to precisely get-go to caramelise, close xxx minutes.

While the sweetness white patato is baking, gently saute the onion inward a frypan, amongst a piddling to a greater extent than crude oil in addition to salt. Stir the onion around regularly until it's caramelised but non burned, close xv minutes.

In medium-sized bowl, squelch the silken tofu amongst a fork. Add the sweetness white patato in addition to lightly squelch it too, making certain it keeps some of its texture. Stir inward the onion, smoked tofu, cinnamon, nutmeg in addition to mint.

Use the mixture to fill upward pastries, dumplings, ravioli, cannelloni or anything else you lot tin recollect of.