swede and sweet potato

[jackyspratty]

Hi peeps
Yesterday I bought the above to follow a cornish pasty recipe to use up some left over lamb. Yes I know its not pukka to put sweet spuds in, I got a lecture from my cornish OH! Anyhow, I didnt have enough marg/butter to make pastry so had to use the lamb another way (disorganised as ever!)

Any ideas what I can do with a sweet potatoe and swede for tea tonight?!

[Rossa]

I'm making sweet potato and carrot mash tonight to put on top of a cottage pie. Just peel, chop and boil together, drain and dry off in pan before mashing with butter and milk. Sweet potato doesn't take as long to cook as potatoes so you could cook with the swede.

Don't know if the mash would hold together enough to make fishcakes, unless you put a beaten egg through it, it may fall apart when you fry or bake them. Would use smoked haddock and maybe a bit of chopped parsley or other herb.

Chopped up ham would work instead of fish, with some chopped onion you sweat off first before adding to mash. Add the beaten agg, form into patties and fry.

Otherwise maybe try something like a corned beef hash with cubes of sweet potato and swede.

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[bobleponge]

You could just cook them, mash them together and then send it to my youngest granddaughter, she just loves that, its her fave.

[jackyspratty]

Thanks guys will try fish cake thingy tomorrow. Decided with the aid of my 7 yaer old to have a night off and we got a chinese instead! Been walking for 3 hours on and off in torrential rain, thejoys of school runs on foot and felt we should have a treat!
Thankyou