Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients:

2 sweet potatoes

1 lemon

drizzle of extra virgin olive oil

handful of crumbled feta

salt and black pepper

1 clove of garlic

1 small red onion

sprig of thyme

400g of plum tomatoes

400g Cannellini beans (drained)

salt and black pepper

teaspoon of marmite

Method:

Wash the sweet potatoes, chop the ends off and discard, then chop into large chunks. Put in a large microwave safe bowl with half a lemon, cover with a double layer of cling film and put in the microwave ready to go.

Now start the beans, note here that we aren’t actually baking them but everyone knows the tinned beans as ‘baked’ beans. Prepare a saucepan with a glug of olive oil in on a medium heat. Finely chop the garlic and onion and lightly fry in the saucepan for about 5 minutes until soft and golden. Add the sprig of thyme and juice of the other half lemon, stir and leave for another minute. Then add the tin of chopped tomatoes, tin of beans, teaspoon of marmite and a pinch of salt and pepper. Stir this in and use your stirring spoon to break up the plum tomatoes. Now turn the heat low and allow to simmer.

Whilst the beans are simmering put the potatoes in the microwave on full heat for 15 minutes. Keep occasionally stirring the beans and pressing down on the plum tomatoes to break them up and also taste for flavour and add more salt, pepper, lemon juice to your preference, maybe a pinch of sugar if it tastes too sharp.

When your potatoes are done, spread them out over a cool plate or chopping board. Add a drizzle of olive oil, your crumbled feta and pinch of salt and pepper. Then using a large knife or even a fork, just roughly chop and mash everything together. Serve on a nice plate with a few spoons of your homemade beans.