Fava Bean with Sweet Potato and Plantain (No Added Fat)

Introductory comments go here. Here is what I did.


Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sweet potato cut into approx. 3/8" cubes (I used a medium Japanese sweet potato); unpeeled if organic (as mine was)
• Medium plantain, ripe or not, cut into 1/2" cubes (mine was ripe and, surprsingly, good eating raw, perhaps the first time I've found this to be the case; cut, it made 1 1/4 cups)
• 1 1/2 cups baby spinach leaves
• 1t fennel seeds
• 1/4 t turmeric
• 1/2 cup water
• 15 ounce can fava beans, rinsed and drained
• 1t lime juice
• 1/2 t salt
• (optional) jalapeno, hot sauce, or other source of spicy heat to preference (I omitted, but hot sauce would have gone well with this dish)

Process

1. I put all the ingredients except the beans, lime juice, salt, and optional heat into my Instant Pot pressure cooker and pressure steamed for 9m.
2. After the cooking was done, I waited a few minutes and gently released pressure, then mixed in the remaining ingredients.

I served with Pad Thai brown rice noodles.

Results

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Ideas for the future

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