Healthy Dish: Sweet Potato and Chickpeas

I often heat up sweet potatoes for my lunch. They take no more than 5 minutes in my microwave, so it's fast and easy. One day, I decided to take my sweet potato and make it more nutritious by adding chickpeas. There's a local store that makes really good chickpeas and we often have them in the house. I also never usually add spices because I felt that sweet potatoes were good on their own, but I was doing healthy and there are many benefits associated with spices, so I decided to add them in this time. The result was amazing, and perfect for a chilly day, the spices warm you up and totally transform the sweet potato. Perfect for a chilly fall day. The picture does show a lot of chickpeas, you don't need to add that much, it may have actually been a little too much. You can serve this for dinner, or as a side as well.

Sweet Potato with Chickpeas

1 medium sweet potato-washed and scrubbed

store bought chickpeas (prepared)

Spices to taste if you don't like any of these just leave it out-Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Fennel Seed, Cumin

1. Cut an X in your sweet potato. Bake your sweet potato, this can be done in 5 minutes in your microwave. If you don't mind waiting longer, this can be done at 350 in your oven for an hour.

2. Peel and Cube Sweet Potatoes, you can leave the peel on if you'd like.

3. Spice to taste

4. Stir in generous amount of pre-seasoned store bought chickpeas.*

Other ideas for add-ins include baby spinach leaves, raw or lightly sauteed. You can also add other sweet squashes. It's very open-ended, so play around have fun.

*Please note that if using a canned chickpeas recipe make sure to rinse them and let them dry on a paper towel, as well as removing loose skins. You can always use your own chickpea recipe and/or use chickpeas you have sitting in the fridge.

Here is a recipe that may be somewhat similar to the prepared chickpeas that I use:

Chickpea Recipe-if you make this recipe, leave out the olives, tomatoes, scallions and parsley/cilantro for use in the above dish.

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Fun Pizza Bites

Fun Pizza Bite

A little while back, I posted about pizza pockets. Here's a fun take on those. Get out your cookie cutters,  and cut two of the same shape out. Spread one with sauce and then put on toppings. I would roll the dough out thinner next time, I was a bit rushed that day and also would use mozzarella cheese rather than American, hey I was using what was in the house. Top with the second shape using a fork to seal the edges. Bake until  a light golden brown, time will vary depending on your pizza recipe.  Yummy! Great for picky eaters.

Wilton 2304-1050 101-Piece Cookie Cutter Set

Simple, triangle turnover-no cookie cutter

Yummy !

Crispy Chicken Sandwich

This recipe tastes great and is so easy, especially when you have leftover chicken cutlets. Chicken cutlets breaded with cornflakes are really good and will get you the crispy part of this sandwich, but any form of breaded cutlet works.

Ingredients:
Baguette
Breaded Chicken Cutlet (already cooked)
Mayonnaise
KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce (it has to be this brand)

Optional:
Lettuce
Tomato
Onion

1. Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise on your baguette.
2. Place lettuce, tomato, onion on your baguette.
3. Put your chicken cutlet on the baguette
4. Drizzle BBQ sauce over the chicken cutlet.

That's it, really easy and delicious.

More options:
You can play around with other types of flavorings, by just changing the sauce you use, for example a spicy tomato dip in place of the BBQ sauce will give you a different type of sandwich.