Weekly Recipe 1: D-Licious Sweet Potato Patties

Starting this week, I'll be posting one healthy but oh-so-delicious recipe a week. The first recipe is D-Licious Sweet Potato Patties.

After having a tough work-out, eating sweet potatoes is a great way to replenish your carbs and energy. This is a recipe for sweet potato cakes that I found and modified. I served myself one patty (about 200 calories) over a salad with a lime vinaigrette, but it would have paired great with some grilled chicken.

3 medium peeled sweet potatoes

2 eggs

3/4 cup whole wheat bread crumbs

1 small onion, finely chopped

1-2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

garlic powder (to taste)

dash salt

2-3 individual wedges of low-fat creamy swiss cheese, each wedge cut into thirds

1) Boil water in a large sauce pan.
2) Roughly chop the peeled sweet potatoes and place in the boiling water.
3) Cook for 10-25 minutes, until tender (like your bruises from sparring) and very mash-able.
4) Strain potatoes and allow to cool.
5) Combine potatoes, bread crumbs, onion, garlic, garlic powder, and salt in a large bowl.
6) Mash together (fighters can use their fists), or blend in a food processor.
7) Mold mixture into patties- about the same diameter as the bottom of a regular coffee mug (or a mouthpiece container). Press one small piece of cheese into the center of the cake.
8) Heat some olive oil in a frying pan. When hot, place patties in the pan and sauté until lightly browned. Flip (or judo throw) and brown the other side.
9) Place cooked patties on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes.

This should make about 8 patties. The amount of cheese used and the diameter/thickness of the patties will affect the calorie content, but they are relative low in calories. They can be served hot or cold and freeze well.