Purple Sweet Potato Crumble Salad

Quick, sweet and delicious

This purple sweet potato crumble was one of my ultimate accidental recipe discoveries. The purple sweet potato actually has a white skin. Hence, for the purpose of this post I will refer to it as purple sweet potato rather than white sweet potato, which is what you see when you are at the fruit market.

It all started with me wanting to make a sweet potato mash and I was absolutely certain I had some orange sweet potato in the pantry, so I didn’t get any from the shops that day. I got home only to realize that I only had the purple sweet potato but I thought it should be fine, I’ll just substitute one for the other.

I usually use the microwave to cook the orange sweet potato so I did the same with the purple sweet potato. Once I started scooping the flesh out I realized it wasn’t as moist as the orange sweet potato and it was actually quite crumbly. Automatically I thought of the Greek style potato salad I usually make and found most of the ingredients in the fridge/pantry.

So I mixed all the elements together and another accidental surprise occurred once I poured the lemon. The purple sweet potato turned PINK!! Oh how I love Science, it was just like magic!

A side dish in 12min from start to finish! 

One of the fastest sides you can ever make, very substantial and the whole family will love it. I had a few taste testers to make sure I wasn’t excited about this for no reason and everyone loved it. Mind you they did initially think this salad was made up of beetroot haha 

I have made it a few times so far with a couple of variations each time so read my notes for more hints.