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1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 Onion, chopped
1 Red bell pepper, cored and chopped
1 Teaspoon minced garlic
1 Tablespoon chili powder
1 Teaspoon chipotle chili powder
1 ½ Pounds Louisiana yams (sweet potatoes), peeled and cut into ½ inch chunks (4 cups)
1 (14 ½ oz.) can fire-roasted diced tomatoes
2 (15-ounce) can dark red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 ½ Cups vegetable broth
3 Cups cooked couscous
1. In large nonstick pot, heat oil and sauté onion, bell pepper and garlic over medium heat until tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in chili and chipotle powder for 30 seconds. Add sweet potatoes, tomatoes, beans and broth.
2. Bring to boil, reduce heat, and cook about 20-30 minutes or until sweet potatoes are tender. Serve over couscous.
Makes 6 (1-cup) servings with ½ cup couscous.
Spicy Advice: Chipotle chili powder has a smoky spicy flavor found in spice section. Fire-roasted tomatoes, also in groceries, have a smoky fiery flavor. Chili powder and diced tomatoes may be substituted to save a trip to the store.
6 Cook Time: 45 minutes
Recipe by: Holly Clegg.
www.hollyclegg.com
The sweet potato is a starchy, sweet-tasting root vegetable. They have a thin, brown skin on the outside with coloured flesh inside – most commonly orange in colour, but other varieties are white, purple or yellow. You can eat sweet potatoes whole or peeled, and the leaves of the plant are edible too.
They may both be called 'potatoes', but sweet and white potatoes are not actually related. Botanically, the sweet potato belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, whereas the white potato sits in the nightshade family.
Sweet potatoes are a rich source of fibre as well as containing a good array of vitamins and minerals including iron, calcium, selenium, and they're a good source of most of our B vitamins and vitamin C. One of the key nutritional benefits of sweet potato is that they're high in an antioxidant known as beta-carotene, which converts to vitamin A once consumed.
Learn more about why we need fibre, vitamins and minerals.
80g of sweet potato, or about one medium potato, counts towards one of your five-a-day, unlike white potato which does not. Take a look at our infographic to find out what counts as 5-a-day.
While there are no single 'superfoods' that can prevent cancer and certain risk factors for cancer are unrelated to diet, there is evidence that eating a healthy diet can reduce the risk of cancer. Fruit and vegetables are high in antioxidants, compounds that help defend the body against damage by 'free radicals'. Studies have suggested that the antioxidants in the peel of sweet potatoes in particular, and especially purple sweet potato, may help reduce this oxidation process, thereby reducing the risk of cancer.
A study in Asia also found that diets high in vitamin-A vegetables, including sweet potato leaves, may provide potential protection from lung cancer.
Sweet potatoes are high in fibre, which has been shown to promote a healthy digestive system. Research so far has only been conducted on animals, but it would appear that the high phytosterol content of sweet potatoes does have a protective effect on the digestive system and may be important in the prevention and management of duodenal and gastric ulcers, including those due to NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen).
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