Mexican sweet potato rice bowls
Serves: 2
Prep time: 25 minsTotal time: 
Recipe photograph by Ant Duncan
Mexican sweet potato rice bowls
Recipe by Anna Glover
Serve this Mexican rice bowl with a dollop of yogurt
Serves: 2
Prep time: 25 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
614Kcal
Fat
14gr
Saturates
3gr
Carbs
100gr
Sugars
20gr
Fibre
17gr
Protein
17gr
Salt
0.4gr
Anna Glover
Anna is our former Creative Food Editor, and a cookery writer and food stylist. She loves a challenge and is known for whipping up interesting flavour combinations. She’s still in search of the best pizza in the world
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Anna Glover
Anna is our former Creative Food Editor, and a cookery writer and food stylist. She loves a challenge and is known for whipping up interesting flavour combinations. She’s still in search of the best pizza in the world
See more of Anna Glover’s recipes
Ingredients
- 75g uncooked brown rice
- ½-1 tbsp chipotle paste, to taste
- juice of ½ lemon, plus wedges to serve
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 medium sweet potato (or 2 small ones), peeled and cut into thin wedges
- 1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced
- 1 x 400g tin black-eyed or black beans, rinsed and drained
- 100g cherry tomatoes, quartered
- 2 spring onions, finely sliced
- ½ x 30g pack coriander, half chopped and half leaves picked
- ½ small avocado, sliced
Step by step
- Cook the rice following the pack instructions and drain. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 220°C, fan 200°C, gas 7.
- Mix the chipotle paste with about half the lemon juice, all the oil and some seasoning. Toss the sweet potato wedges and pepper slices with the mixture and tip them out onto a baking tray. Roast in the oven for 25-30 minutes until tender and lightly charred, stirring once or twice.
- Toss half the beans with the tomatoes, spring onions, most of the remaining lemon juice, chopped coriander and some seasoning. Stir the other half of the beans through the cooked rice, along with the last of the lemon juice.
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Divide the rice between two bowls, then do the same with the roasted sweet potato, red pepper, bean mix, avocado slices and a spoon of yogurt (dairy-free if required). Scatter with coriander and serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over.TipUse a pouch of pre-cooked brown rice, if you like.
