Sweet potato toasts, sounds delicious, right? Check our new recipe and learn how to make sweet potato toasts for your babies.
Makes: 4 slices
Time: 50 minutes
Age: 12+ months
Ingredients:
4 cucumber slices
½ medium sweet potato
¼ sweet red pepper
2 tsp cream cheese
1 tsp sesame seeds
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Thoroughly wash and scrub the sweet potato, chop the pointy end off and cut into 4 slices lengthwise, about 1cm thick.
- Lay the sweet potato on the parchment paper and bake for 20 minutes.
- Flip the slices and cook for 15-20 more minutes, until soft but not mushy.
- Take them out of the oven and put on a cooling rack.
- Meanwhile, thoroughly wash the pepper and cucumber and cut them into thin slices lengthwise.
- Once the potatoes are just warm, spread a thin layer of cream cheese on each slice.
- Top with the cucumber and pepper slices and sprinkle with the sesame seeds.
- You can bake the slices ahead and store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months. Warm them up in the toaster and add the toppings before serving.
Enjoy!
Nutrition Information Typical Values:
Nutrient | per 100g | per serving (42g) |
Energy |
587kJ/ 141kcal |
246kJ/ 59kcal |
Fat of which saturates |
8.7g 4.9g |
3.7g 2.1g |
Carbohydrate of which sugars |
12g 4.7g |
4.9g 2g |
Protein | 2.9g | 1.2g |
Salt | 0.24g | 0.1g |
Vitamin A (reteq) | 409ug (51%) | 172ug |
% reference intake of an average adult (8400kJ/2000kcal)