BBQ Sweet Potato Wedges & Confit Garlic Yoghurt

Our new treat for movie night

Howdy! It's your favourite cheerleader, willing you on to make some healthy-assed choices this week. How's it going?

I have a tray of luscious, sticky, sweet potato wedges today to help nudge crisps and biscuits off your radar for movie night. The garlic yoghurt is totally optional, but criminally good.

Garlic confit is easy to make, costs very little, lasts very long, and adds a pyroclastic blast of deliciousness to everything. We include it here to raise the tempo of your yoghurt, but feel free to leave it out altogether or replace with raw grated garlic.

What's confit garlic?

Confit cloves are soft, creamy and surprisingly gentle. A jar will last weeks and weeks in the fridge. Mash a few cloves onto crusty toast with sea salt for immediate satisfaction, or trickle the confit oil over boring soups and salads. Blend it into hummus, fold it into mashed spuds, or smear it over your Sunday roast. Garlic confit can excite just about anything, even a four-day-old bowl of pasta. Think of it as your kitchen Band-Aid.

So back to this amazing recipe ...

Sweet potatoes are king in our kitchen. Their luminous orange flesh houses some seriously good gear. There’s vitamin C and beta-carotene for rude immune systems, snazzy antioxidants to tackle hangovers, and vitamin E to keep your skin plump and delicious. All in a spud! We're marrying them with a spicy dust this week, to accompany our movie night. Chilli is one of my favourite ever ingredients. This devious vegetable can sting lips to a sumptuous pout without the price-tag of cosmetic surgery. Groovy, eh? I guess nettles could too but I’m not willing to find out. Given that chillis also help raise blood pressure, it’s the perfect ingredient to have up your sleeve on a date. (Erm, careful not to take me literally).

A compound found inside chilli has shown to stimulate the release of feel-good endorphins, like a jamboree through the veins. These same endorphins help to put out internal ‘fires’ by blocking inflammation in the body, numbing us of our day’s aches or pains. (And tedious colleagues).

We love loafing into these wedges with movies. The boys and I just finished watching Captain Fantastic, which was both heavenly and heartbreaking. It left a positive, strong, anti-consumerist imprint. (Result!) Of course, this might only last the week but hopefully beyond. And last week, Fiddler on the Roof was knock-out brilliant. Marty is still singing “If I was a rich man.” Have you any recommendations for me? Some must-see movies to watch with tweens and teens? Do tell. Drop a comment below, or DM me on Instagram @susanjanekitchen . I'd love your thoughts, as I go cross-eyed scrolling through the iTunes rental store.

Until next week!

Love, light and chilli,

Susan Jane

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