Sesame Sweet Potato Noodles

Ingredients

• Sweet potato

  Raw, unprepared

  1 sweetpotato, 5" long or 130g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Sesame butter

  Seeds, tahini, from roasted and toasted kernels (most common type)

  2 tbsp or 30g

• Sesame oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Vinegar

  Cider

  2 tbsp or 30g

• Honey

  2 tsp or 14g

• Crushed red pepper flakes

  ¼ tsp or 0.08g

• Salt

  Table

  ¼ tsp or 2g

• Scallions

  Spring onions or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw

  1 medium or 15g

• Sesame seeds

  Seeds, whole, dried

  1 tbsp or 9g

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 425°F. Place the sweet potato in the oven and cook for 10 minutes; it will not be fully cooked.
2. While the sweet potato cools, whisk together the tahini, sesame oil, vinegar, honey, red pepper flakes, and salt in a small bowl. Set aside.
3. Spiralize the sweet potato into noodles. Heat olive oil in a medium sauté pan and cook the sweet potato noodles for about 5 minutes until slightly crunchy, or longer for softer noodles.
4. Toss the noodles with the dressing, scallions, and sesame seeds. Serve warm or cold.