BAKED SWEET POTATO WITH ROASTED VEGETABLES AND BULGUR WHEAT
Ingredients
- 1 medium sweet potato (about 350g/12oz)
- washed and dried
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ fennel bulb
- thinly sliced
- ½ red pepper
- cut into 2cm/¾in cubes
- ½ red onion
- cut into wedges
- small handful cherry tomatoes
- 50g/1¾oz bulgur wheat
- 2 sprigs dill
- roughly chopped
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tbsp natural yoghurt
- to serve
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6 and place a sheet of kitchen foil on the middle shelf.
- Rub the sweet potato with half a teaspoon of the olive oil and some salt. Pierce the skin several times with a sharp knife
- place directly onto the top shelf of the oven and bake for 1 hour.
- Meanwhile
- place the vegetables in a medium-sized roasting tray
- drizzle with the remaining olive oil and mix well. Season with salt and pepper and roast for 20–25 minutes or until soft and starting to brown at the edges.
- Put the bulgur wheat into a heatproof bowl and pour in just enough boiling water to cover
- wrap the bowl tightly with cling film and leave to stand for 30 minutes.
- Check the potato is cooked through by piercing with a blunt knife. When it is done
- turn the oven off and leave the potato in for 15 minutes while you assemble the topping.
- Fluff up the bulgur wheat with a fork
- then tip it into the tray with the roasted vegetables and mix well to combine. Add the dill and mix again.
- To serve
- break the potato open and fluff up the inside with a fork
- top with the bulgur wheat and vegetable mixture and a dollop of natural yoghurt.

