Sweet Potato Cakes

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 700 g sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
• 25 g butter
• 1 onion, peeled and chopped
• 1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed
• 1 pinch nutmeg
• 1 medium egg, beaten
• 50 g quick-cooking polenta
• 2 tablespoons sunflower oil

Recipe

• 1 cook the sweet potatoes in boiling salted water until tender. drain and mash until smooth.
• 2 melt the butter in a sauce pan and cook the onion and garlic gently for 10 mins until soft.
• 3 add the onions to the sweet potato along with the nutmeg and seasoning if desired. mix well and leave to cool.
• 4 place the egg in a shallow bowl and the polenta in another .
• 5 when the potato is cook enough to handle divide into four and form into cake shapes.
• 6 dip the cakes in the egg and then the polenta, once done refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• 7 heat the oil and cook the potato cakes for 4 - 5 mins each side.