Sweet potato salad with avocado, feta and pickled walnuts

Sweet potato salad with avocado, feta and pickled walnuts

This colourful vegetarian salad recipe makes a lovely light dinner or lunch.

Sweet potato salad with avocado, feta and pickled walnuts

  • Serves icon Serves 4-6
  • Time icon Hands-on time 20 min, oven time 45 min, plus cooling

This colourful vegetarian salad recipe makes a lovely light dinner or lunch.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories
444kcals
Fat
35.3g (24.1g saturated)
Protein
8g
Carbohydrates
24.1g (11.8g sugars)
Fibre
7.9g
Salt
2.5g

For 6 servings

Ingredients

  • 450g sweet potatoes
  • 3 avocados, sliced
  • 1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
  • 100g rocket
  • 6 pickled walnuts, thinly sliced (the delicious. food team like Opies, widely available)
  • Handful fresh parsley leaves
  • Handful fresh dill, chopped
  • 125g creamy feta 

For the dressing

  • Juice 5-6 lemons
  • 75ml toasted walnut oil
  • 2-3 tbsp clear honey
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 2 tsp salt
  • Handful fresh dill
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Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6. Put the sweet potatoes in a baking tray and roast for 45 minutes or until tender. Set aside to cool completely, then peel and slice into thick rounds.
  2. Meanwhile, in a mini food processor or blender, whizz the ingredients for the dressing until smooth and combined. Taste an season, if needed.
  3. Arrange the sweet potato rounds on a large serving platter or individual plates. Top with the sliced avocado, fennel, rocket and pickled walnuts, then scatter over the herbs. Drizzle with as much of the dressing as you’d like, then crumble over the feta, sprinkle with ground black pepper and serve.

Recipe adapted from Bar Tartine

Nutrition

For 6 servings

Nutrition: per serving
Calories
444kcals
Fat
35.3g (24.1g saturated)
Protein
8g
Carbohydrates
24.1g (11.8g sugars)
Fibre
7.9g
Salt
2.5g

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