Hearty Vegetarian, Grain Free Breakfast with Spiralized Sweet Potato, Spinach and Berries

27 Feb Hearty Vegetarian, Grain Free Breakfast with Spiralized Sweet Potato, Spinach and Berries

Vegan, grain-free breakfast can be a tough meal to create. Americans are often programed to seek sweets and grain, or eggs and sausage for breakfast. It can be liberating to start your day with veggies. A hearty vegetarian meal to start the day can set you up to keep your energy levels stable throughout your demanding day.

The star of this vegan breakfast is the spiralized sweet potatoes. You’ll need a spiralizer for this recipe, and I know there are a lot of different versions out there. Find yourself one that will work with a sweet potato. I don’t love my sprializer, so I am not going to recommend it to you. It feels janky when I use it, but it gets the job done. Anyone out there love their spiralizer?

I recommend sprializing a bunch of sweet potatoes when you do it, and then keep them in the fridge and use them for future meals. The raw spirals will keep well for about a week.

Special equipment, yes, but you are going to love this recipe! Make it for breakfast and let me know what you think!

Sprialized Sweet Potato, Spinach and Berries

Hearty, healthy and vegan breakfast

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 10 mins

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings 1 large serving

Ingredients

  

• 4 tablespoons Salted Butter divided as you cook sweet potatoes
• 2 cups Sweet Potato spiralized
• 2 cups Baby Spinach roughly chopped
• 1/2-3/4 cup Blackberries and Raspberries

Instructions

 

• Heat 2 tablespoons of the salted butter over medium high heat in a saute pan. Once melted, add sweet potatoes and press them into the pan with a spatula to get the spirals to make contact with the hot part of the pan as much as you can (they will be springy at first).
• Allow the sweet potatoes to stay on the same side to allow for browning, about 5 mins. (Turn the heat down and flip potatoes early if you see smoking at any point.) Add 1 tablespoon of the butter and turn sweet potatoes to the other side. Leave them to cook on that side for 3 mins, then add the last tablespoon of butter and the spinach, turn over and allow to cook for the last 2 minutes, moving spinach around as needed so it wilts. When sweet potatoes are tender and slightly browned and the spinach is wilted they are ready.
• To serve, turn sweet potatos and spinach out onto a plate or bowl and add berries to the top.
• I always wonder if anyone reads this last instruction to do the most natural and obvious thing in the world next – eat it! (I hope you enjoy)

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