Vegan purple potato flatbread
- MEAL:
- Brekkie, Dinner, Lunch
- BENEFITS:
- Gluten free, Gut health, Vegan-friendly
- DURATION:
- 40 min
When & How
Breakfast: Starting off with some good carbs for breakfast is necessary to optimize and stabilize energy levels throughout the day without falling into compulsive snacking. Let’s make it balanced!
- Chickpea flour provides a good amount of veg proteins already, so you can simply add a source of healthy fat, such as avocado (salty version) or nut butter (sweet version).
- You can also choose to get in more protein by adding an egg (scrambled, poached, or sunny side up) or Greek yogurt.
- If you go for the salty version, you can fill your potato flatbread with veggies and seeds. Love the combo arugula and hemp seed pesto. If you decide to use yogurt, you can add fresh fruits on top, but choose fruits low in sugars, such as berries, and sprinkle some cinnamon powder on top.
Lunch: Use it as a side to a main seafood, meat, or egg dish.
- Baked salmon cubes, baby spinach, avocado & potato flatbread
- Shrimps, hemp seed pesto, tomatoes, raw onion & potato flatbread
- Chicken, arugula, pine nuts & potato flatbread
- Poached eggs, salad greens, radishes, pumpkin seeds & potato flatbread
Dinner: For a balanced plant-based dinner.
- Vegan cream cheese & roasted eggplant with mint
- Pan-seared radicchio & fried sage leaves
- Roasted asparagus & chimichurri sauce
Ingredients
(2 servings) (4 flatbread)
- 300g purple sweet potatoes
- 100g chickpea flour + more to knead
- Olive oil
- Pinch of salt & pepper
Method
- Preheat the oven to 380 F (200 C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Boil potatoes (keeping the skin) until they are fork-tender. Let cool and mash them into a bowl using a potato masher or a fork.
- Add flour, salt, pepper and a couple of teaspoons of olive oil. Mix using your hands to knead the dough. Keep adding flour until the dough is not sticky anymore.
- Divided the dough into 4 parts and roll them into small balls.
- Roll out each ball between two sheets of oiled parchment paper using a rolling pin. Transfer to the baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Slightly grease each flatbread with olive oil. Bake for about 15 minutes.
Tips
- You can substitute sweet potatoes with regular potatoes.
- You can substitute chickpea flour with other whole grain flour, such as oats, quinoa, or buckwheat.
Benefits
PURPLE SWEET POTATOES
Purple sweet potatoes are the type of potatoes with the highest antioxidant content. Potatoes are also rich in potassium which helps with fluid balance within the body and has myorelaxant properties, meaning it helps with muscle relaxation. This makes this recipe ideal as a post work out and in case of period cramps because it promotes ovary muscle relaxation, too.
