Recipe: Crispy sweet potatoes with ham

Preparation time:  40 minutes

Ingredients for 4 people:

2 Large sweet potatoes (about 400g)

Salt and pepper

1 egg

2 tablespoons of flour

5 tablespoons of breadcrumbs

2-3 tablespoons of oil

100g of mayonnaise

1-2 teaspoons of Dijon mustard

50g watercress

1 baguette (approx. 300g)

100g French ham – air dried and thinly sliced

Preparation:

1. Peel the sweet potatoes . Cut them in lengthwise slices of 5mm thickness. Blanch for 2 minutes in boiling salted water. Drain them and set aside on paper towels.  Salt and pepper  each slice. Beat the egg. Immerse the potato slices first in flour, then in egg and finally in breadcrumbs. Let them brown on all sides in hot oil for 5-7 minutes. Let them cool.

 2 . For the cream Dijon mustard, mix mayonnaise with mustard. Wash the watercress. Cut the bread into four pieces, and open each piece of bread with a knife. Spread  bread slices with mustard cream. Fill the bottom of the bread with sweet potato slices, ham and watercress. Cover  each sandwich with the other half of bread.

Try more sweet potato recipes:

Sweet Potato Quiche with tapenade.

Sweet potato mounds with figs and brie.

Sweet potato Madeleine.