All posts tagged: sweet potato

Chorizo kumara hash

For those outside of New Zealand, kūmara is the Māori word for sweet potato. Feel free to use sweet potato or a combination of sweet potato and potato. I used fresh chorizo sausages made from free range pork. You can substitute this with any well spiced sausage. Do not substitute with dried or cured chorizo. Chorizo kumara hash 10 mins prep  |  20 mins cook Difficulty: Easy  | Serves 2 Ingredients 2 kūmara (sweet potato) 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 fresh chorizo sausages half an onion, diced 1 garlic clove, chopped 1-2 tablespoons tomato paste 2 handfuls baby spinach To serve: fried eggs and buttered toast Preparation Peel kūmara and cut into 2-3cm cubes. Place in a saucepan of boiling water and simmer for 10-12 minutes until tender. Drain and reserve. In the meantime, place a heavy skillet or sauce pan on high heat and add olive oil. Make a vertical cut down each chorizo sausage, pulling out the sausage meat and discard the casings. Add to hot pan, breaking up the sausage meat into …

Thai coconut mussel and kumara chowder

This post was made possible thanks to Trident. To win a year’s supply of Trident products including their popular chilli sauces, noodles, coconut cream and milk, upload a photo of your own sweet chilli creation to their Facebook page here. Need a recipe to inspire you? Read on… Back when I was a poor uni student, I indulged in mussels as a culinary upgrade from instant noodles. I would steam a kilo of mussels in a pot, add a little sweet chill sauce and coconut cream and serve with bread to mop up the juices. It was a treat. Delicious. Affordable. Minimal effort. Sweet chilli sauce goes so well with mussels and ever since, I’ve kept sweet chilli sauce on hand as a pantry staple. NZ green-lipped mussels are giant compared to other mussels. Some are as large as my hand…though I admit, I have quite small hands. Because they are so big, they have enough strength to hold tightly to their beards making them hard to pull out. My hack is to remove the …