Boiled Sweet Potatoes with Spicy Tempeh

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PREPARING PLANT-BASED BREAKFAST

BOILED Sweet Potatoes With Spicy Tempeh_{With Step by Step Plating Tutorial}

Sweet potatoes are a staple food to me, like rice that can be combined with any side dish that has a dominant savory and spicy taste.

For those who are not familiar, it might be a little strange with sweet potatoes combined with side dishes. Maybe because sweet potatoes have a slightly sweet taste, in contrast to potatoes which tend to be bland.

As for me, I like both. So I made them a variation of my daily diet. Sometimes I have sweet potatoes and sometimes other days I have potatoes.

This time I will share my activities to prepare a plant-based breakfast with the menu "Boiled Sweet Potatoes With Spicy Tempeh".

As usual, I'll also include how I add anesthetic to my dishes. Stay tuned!

Spicy Sauce is King

My breakfast this time was predominantly savory and spicy. So I use the spicy sauce as a base for plating.

I form the sauce in the center of the plate because I'm going to put a boiled sweet potato on top.

Honestly, shaping the sauce on the plate is a difficult thing, at least for me who is not a professional chef. I am still learning many things to do this. Usually, in my mind, I want to form a sauce pattern like this, but in practice, the sauce that I form is beyond my expectations. Furthermore, I also had to adjust the layout of the main ingredients in the sauce.

Forms Sweet Potatoes

The formation of sweet potatoes into a certain shape is a way to match the shape of the sauce that has been laid out on the plate.

This time I sliced the sweet potato slowly, but I didn't let one slice separate from the other. The sweet potato slices should stick together to form a nice pattern over the sauce.

When laying out the sweet potato slices, the sauce is less noticeable. But it doesn't matter because I will add another component as garnishes.

Added Side Dishes

It's time to add spicy tempeh to the plate. I have to think about how to keep the spicy tempeh from ruining the neatly shaped sauces and sweet potatoes on the plate.

I decided to put spicy tempeh on the top and bottom of the sweet potatoes. This is to balance the shape of this whole dish.

Added Vegetables

I want my plate not to miss even a little of the crunchy vegetables. So I added fresh carrots and cucumber slices.

For carrots, I make thin slices following the circle pattern of the carrot itself.

Then for the cucumber, I sliced the cucumber lengthwise and thinly. Then I carefully rolled the cucumber slices so they didn't break.

Carrot and cucumber slices are placed on a plate between the sweet potatoes and spicy tempeh to consider a balanced composition.

Ready!

I have a plant-based breakfast dish that is out of the box even though it's only made from simple ingredients.

I am happy with my creation because it can save me from the boredom of my daily diet.

What do you think of the breakfast I prepared today? Is this strange enough for you, or would you like to try it?

Thank you for reading my food blog. I hope that there will be new inspirations that can be taken from my food blog by you. Thank you for your time, and enjoy your day!