Mexican Sweet Potato and Black Beans with Homemade Salsa and Guacamole

This recipe is fiery, flavoursome and full of those much loved mexican flavours we are used to with meat dishes!  You can use this recipe in many ways; as a stew, or as a filling for fajitas or burritos or enchiladas!  Basically take your favourite meaty mexican dish and sub-in this filling!

I will show you how to make your own "fajita spicing" and how to made your own clean eating salsa and guacamole, and you will see how much fresher and tastier they are than shop bought!

Ingredients:

• 3 x large sweet potatoes
• 1 x tin of black beans
• 1.5 x red onion
• Fresh corriander
• 2 x limes
• 1 x punnet of cherry tomatoes
• 1 x avocado
• A couple of chillis of your choice (I went birdseye as I like it really spicy, but normal chillis or jalepenos would also do!

Spices for homemade fajita spice (or feel free just to buy a packet of fajita spice for ease)

• 1 x tbs smoked paprika
• 2.5 x tbs chilli powder
• 1 x tsp cayenne pepper (reduce if you dont want it as spicy)
• 1 x tsp chilli flakes (reduce if you dont want it as spicy)
• 1 x tsp cumin
• 2 x tsp onion powder
• 1 x tsp garlic powder

Method:

• Peel the sweet potato and cut into bite size chunks.
• Slice one of the onions and begin to fry in a pan.  Once the onions begin to soften add the sweet potato.
• Drain the black beans and add them to the pan.
• Add in fajita mix and stir through thoroughly.
• At this point it would add a couple of dashes of water.
• Continue to cook over a medium heat until sweet potato is cooked through. You may need to add more water throughout this process to stop it sticking to the pan.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Squeeze in the juice of half a lime.

Salsa

• In a mini blender add as many cherry tomatoes as you can fit!  Add to this the remaining half red onion (chopped finely), the chillis, a large handful of corriander, juice of half a lime, salt and pepper. Blend until desired level of chunkiness is reached! Taste and adapt seasoning / spicing / lime juice to taste.

Guacamole

• Remove salsa from blender.  No need to wash it.  Add in the chopped flesh of the avocado along with salt, pepper, juice from a full lime.
• Blend until desired smoothness / chunkiness reached.
• Add in 2 tbs of your salsa and give it one more quick blend to mix this through.

And that is you done!  Serve this dish as it comes or use it as a filling for your favourite Mexican dish.