I’m so behind with the trends. Do you know that avocado toast has become avocado “toast” with quotation marks? People are using sweet potatoes as the “bread” and the first time I saw that oh-so-clickable headline I thought it was ridiculous.
One morning though, desperate times called for desperate measures. I had no breakfast food – just a sweet potato, an avocado, and some almond butter. I don’t really ever skip breakfast, so I roasted sweet potato rounds and topped half with the almond butter and half with the avocado. Jack walked in, I said “look, ‘toast’ ” (with air quotes) and he looked at my like I was crazy, but we both gobbled it up.
This definitely was good, but still wasn’t toast. Nonetheless, I got inspired to use sweet potatoes like this, so I used that little impromptu breakfast as my inspiration for this tartare on sweet potato not-toast.
This recipe is more of an appetizer or a tasty light lunch.
I mixed up the avocado with ingredients that would be in tuna tartare – sesame oil, a little dijon mustard and sesame seeds. There’s diced red onion for a little crunch and lemon juice to brighten it all up.
I topped my sweet potato rounds with little pieces of watermelon radish but that step is completely optional, I just think it’s pretty and the crunch is nice.
Sweet Potato Avocado Tartare
- 2 medium sweet potatoes
- Extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 watermelon radish, thinly sliced, cut into half moons
- 2 teaspoons sesame seeds, white or black
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice + more for squeezing
- ¼ teaspoon Dijon mustard
- ¼ cup diced red onion
- 1 medium-large ripe avocado
- Sea salt
- Preheat the oven to 425°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Slice thin rounds (smaller than ¼ inch, not quite as thin as ⅛ inch) from the thick middle of the sweet potatoes. This should yield 14 to 16 rounds. (You can chop up the ends of the sweet potatoes into cubes and roast them for another use).
- Place the sweet potatoes on the baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil and pinches of salt and pepper, and roast for 20 minutes. Turn the slices and roast for 10 to 15 minutes more, or until tender.
- Make the Avocado tartare: In a medium bowl, whisk together the sesame oil, lemon juice, mustard, and a few pinches of salt. Stir in the red onion and set aside.
- When the sweet potatoes are almost done, dice the avocado and stir it into the tartare along with an extra squeeze of lemon. Season to taste.
- Top the roasted sweet potato rounds with the watermelon radish slices and the avocado tartare. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and coarse salt.
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