By Sanjeev Kapoor
Sweet Potato and Blueberry Sliders
About the Dish
A fresh, light, and flavorful roll packed with crunchy vegetables, herbs, noodles, and USA Blueberries, served with USA Blueberry sauce. Perfect as an appetizer, light lunch, or innovative plated snack.
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- 2 medium sweet potatoes, boiled, peeled and mashed
- ¼ cup US Dried Blueberries, chopped
- 8 slider buns
- 1 tbsp oil + for shallow frying
- ½ tbsp chopped garlic
- 1 small onion, chopped
- ½ tsp paprika powder
- ½ cup fresh breadcrumbs
- Salt to taste
- 1½ tbsps butter + to apply
- 2 medium onions, slices
- 2 tsps brown sugar
- ½ cup US Frozen Fresh Blueberries
- Crushed black peppercorns to taste
- 2 cheese slices, cut into 8 pieces
- 8 tomato roundels
- 8 small romaine lettuce leaves
- French fries for serving
Method
- Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a shallow nonstick pan. Add garlic and onion and sauté on medium heat till onion turns translucent. Transfer in a bowl, add sweet potatoes, paprika powder, fresh breadcrumbs and salt and mix well.
- Divide the mixture into 8 equal portions and shape into patties. Heat sufficient oil in a shallow nonstick pan and shallow fry these patties till golden brown and crisp. Drain on an absorbent paper and set aside.
- Slit the slider buns and apply butter on both the sides. Heat a nonstick tawa and toast the slider buns till golden brown and crisp.
- Heat 1½ tbsps butter in a shallow nonstick pan. Add onions and sauté till golden brown.
- Add brown sugar, US Frozen Fresh Blueberries, salt and crushed black peppercorns and cook on medium heat for 6-8 minutes or till the blueberries are pulpy. Allow to cool.
- Apply blueberry- onion mixture on lower halves of slider buns, place the prepared patty on each half, place a piece of cheese slice, tomato slice and lettuce leaf on top.
- Cover with remaining halves and serve with French fries.
Blueberries have been a part of North American food and medicine traditions for centuries.