Sweet potato and coconut.

Sweet potato can be very plain or very flavour full all depending on what you do with them. The best way to cook them is to try and capture all the sweet flavour and form that is roasting them.

So for this mash you will need

450g/1ld sweet potato
1 small onion
3 garlic cloves
1tsp ginger root
1tsp of lime juice
240ml/8foz cream coconut
½ small red chilli
Slat and fresh ground black pepper to taste

First you take your sweet potato and garlic and place them all in a baking fry in there skins. Then peal the onion and place that in the baking tray. Now cover this all with tin foil and then place in to the oven and bake till ever thing is soft and completely cooked threw. This way then you get the steam as it cook and the dry heat of the roast that cook and soften every thing as it cooks. You have to remove the skin of the onion other wise every thing gets a little bitter note in the taste.

Once every thing is cooked let it cool on the side for a moment then you can start to mash every thing together. First take your onion and start to mash that with a fork in a blow. Mash it so that is breaks down then squeeze out the coke garlic from the skins. Now peal the skin of the sweet potato and add that to the mix. Start to mash ever thing together so that you get a real good smooth consistency.

Now Take your chilli and take out all the seed. Then chop this as fine as you can. And do the same with the ginger. Now take them and add then to a sauce pan with the coco nut cream. Bring this to a boil; you want to get a real good infusion of the flavours in the coco nut cream.

Once it has boiled add the mashed sweet potato and return to a low heat. Blend it all together with a fork. Once you have a warm smooth mash add a dash of line juice and salt and pepper.

This sweet spiced mash is excellent with any kind of char grilled fish or chicken.