Ingredients

Serves 4
20 min prep
45 min cook time
244 calories

• Olive oil spray
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 carrots, diced
• 1 zucchini, diced
• 1 celery stick, diced
• 100g (3.5oz) lean beef mince
• 400g (14oz) can diced tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• Pinch chilli powder
• 2 tablespoons chopped coriander
• 500g (1lb) (about 1 large) sweet potato, peeled, coarsely chopped
• 1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan

Instructions

1. To make the meat mixture, lightly spray a frying pan with olive oil and heat on medium.
2. Cook the onion and garlic, stirring, for 5 minutes until softened.
3. Add the carrot, zucchini and celery and cook, covered, for another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Increase the heat to high. Add the mince and cook for 1 minute, stirring to break up any lumps, or until it has changed colour.
5. Stir in the tomato, cumin, chilli and 3/4 cup water and simmer, covered, for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
6. Remove from heat, stir in the coriander
7. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 180C.(356 F.) Place the sweet potato in a steamer set over a saucepan of simmering water.
8. Cover and cook for 10 minutes or until tender. Coarsely mash. Stir the Parmesan through.
9. Spread the meat mixture over the base of a 4-cup ovenproof dish, or 4 x (1 cup) capacity oven proof dishes. Spread the sweet potato over the meat mixture.
10. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden.

Mish Tips

• Double or even triple the ingredients to make a large batch. One cooking effort for multiple portions.
• Dish up the portions into individual containers and freeze or refrigerate for those nights when you just don’t feel like cooking.
• You may like to reserve some of the parmesan to scatter on top of the sweet potato just before baking.

This recipe is from Michelle Bridges
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