Lovely sweet and tangy salad with sweet potato, red beets, grilled yellow bell pepper and purslane. Both the purslane and the red beet have a nice earthy taste. The stem of the purslane has a nice crisp. The beets are sweet, as are the sweet potato and the roasted yellow bell pepper. All flavors are lifted by the dressing that has the sweet bitterness of a bit of grapefruit juice, homemade mustard, chili flakes and honey.

Purslane

Purslane is a leafy green that’s not very well known. It’s originally from the Middle-Eastern. In my county it’s eaten in summer. It tastes a bit earthy and a little bit sour but it’s mostly crispy and fresh.

Grilled or steamed

The bell pepper is grilled in its own jacket. It doesn’t need any oil. I grilled the sweet potato and the beet as well. But this calls for a bit of oil. If you wish to eat fatfree, just steam them.

Homemade mustard

The dressing is made with a bit of mustard. But since that has vinegar, I decided to make it myself: with lemon juice. This is the recipe for the homemade mustard without vinegar.

Sweet potato salad with purslane, red beet, yellow bell pepper and grapefruit chili honey dressing

ME (Marjolein Eikenboom)

Lovely sweet, earthy and slightly spicy salad. With 3 different kind of grilled vegetables and a summer leafy green: purslane. Topped with walnuts.

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Cook Time 2

Oven 45

Total Time 47

Free from beef, chicken, fat, ferment, fish, grains, legumes, oils, peanuts, pseudograins

Diet medical medium, paleo

Keyword spring/summer

Cuisine European

Course salad

Servings serving

Calories 655

Equipment

oven at 430F or 220C or steamer
ovendish or oven/baking tray and parchment paper
colander
big bowl
little bowl and whisk

Ingredients

2 sweet potato or 1 large one
2 red beetroot
1 yellow bell pepper
2 large handfuls purslane
½ tsp coriander seeds
½ tsp cumin seeds
½ tsp chili flakes
¼ grapefruit
2 tbsp raw honey
2 tsp homemade mustard link to the homemade recipe above this recipe
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

For fat and oilfree

no extra virgin olive oil steam instead of grilling

Instructions

Preheat the oven at 430F or 220C.
Peel and dice the sweet potatoes and the red beets. Wash the bell pepper.
Put the potato and beet cubes in a bowl separately and add to each half of the olive oil and spices. separating them will prevent the potatoes turning purple. Mix wel.
Put the potao and beetsin an oventray (also besides each other and still not mixed) or on a baking/oven tray with parchment paper. Make some room for the pepper and put it completely in tact (with skin and stem) besides the cubes.
Grill for 40 tot 45 minutes. Let cool.
When cooled, peel the blackend peel from the pepper. Remove the stem and the seeds. Wash with cold water if needed. Shred into strips.
Wash the purslane well, it can go bad very easily. Take out any leaves that are spoiled.
Mix the honey, the juice of a quarter grapefruit and the mustard. Mix that with the purslane. Add the potato and beets and mix.
Prepare the plates with the salad and top with the grilled pepper strips and walnuts. You can crush the walnuts a bit by hand. Drizzle more honey om top to taste.