Day 18 Recipe
Sweet Potatoes with Thai Peanut Butter Sauce
Ingredients
For the sweet potatoes and slaw
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4 medium to large sweet potatoes (10 to 12 ounces each)
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1/4 red cabbage (3 cups shredded)
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1/2 red bell pepper
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1/2 yellow bell pepper
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1 green onion
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¼ cup chopped cilantro
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2 tablespoons fresh lime juice (1 lime)
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¼ teaspoon kosher salt
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Crushed peanuts, for the garnish
For the Thai peanut butter sauce
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⅓ cup peanut butter
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2 tablespoons soy sauce
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2 tablespoons lime juice (1 lime)
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1 teaspoon maple syrup, honey or date butter
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2 tablespoons water
Instructions
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Cook the sweet potatoes: Go to Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes, Steamed Sweet Potatoes, or Quick Baked Sweet Potatoes.
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Make the slaw: Thinly slice the red cabbage, enough for 3 cups. Thinly slice the peppers. Thinly slice the green onion. Chop the cilantro. In a large bowl, mix together the cabbage, peppers, green onion and cilantro with the lime juice and kosher salt.
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Make the Thai peanut butter sauce: In a small bowl, whisk together the peanut butter, soy sauce, lime juice, maple syrup, and water. Taste and add a bit of kosher salt if desired (this depends on the salt content of the peanut butter).
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Serve: Slice the sweet potatoes in half and top them with the slaw. Drizzle with the Thai peanut butter sauce and sprinkle with chopped peanuts.