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Try making your own pesto for these baked potatoes with our homemade pesto recipe.

  • 2 large sweet potatoes
  • olive oil
  • 1 tbsp tahini
  • 3 tbsp natural yogurt
  • ½ lemon
    juiced
  • 2 tbsp fresh pesto
  • 1 tbsp pine nuts
    toasted

Nutrition:

  • kcal515
  • fat21.6g
  • carbs63.9g
  • sugars35.6g
  • fibre11.2g
  • protein10.8g
  • salt0.7g

Method

  • step 1

    Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Rub the sweet potatoes with 1 tsp oil, and bake for 40-50 minutes until tender.

  • step 2

    Mix the tahini, yogurt and lemon then stir in enough water to make it saucy. Season really well.

  • step 3

    When the spuds are done, split open and divide the tahini mix between them. Drizzle over the pesto then scatter with pine nuts.

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