Spiced sweet potato and halloumi cakes
These spiced sweet potato and halloumi cakes are really delicious, easy to make and yet rather healthy too. Served with a green salad, this dish makes a lovely lunch or easy midweek supper, particularly if you’re using pre-baked or leftover sweet potatoes! If you make smaller patties, they would be perfect as appetizers with a glass or two!
Ingredients
Method
- Put the potatoes in a preheated oven and bake them for about 30-45 minutes, until you can push a skewer through them easily. Let them cool, then scoop out the flesh.
- Pour boiling water over the spinach in a bowl, let it wilt, then drain. Allow to cool, then squeeze out the water.
- Put the sweet potato flesh into a mixing bowl, add the spices, egg, garlic, coriander leaves and the grated halloumi.
- When the spinach is cool, chop it finely and add to the bowl.
- Chop the spring onions too and add to the bowl.
- Mix everything together. Season with salt and pepper then fold in enough gram flour to get a thick, mouldable dough.
- Using your hands, form the mixture into 4 big or 8 small balls, then press them into patties.
- Coat the patties in the remaining gram flour then fry them in hot oil over a medium heat until golden on each side, turning once. Alternatively bake them in a pre-heated oven.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.