Zucchini and Sweet Potato Slice - Real Recipes from Mums

Serves 6
20 minutes
Difficulty Easy
9 Ingredients

one of the TASTE mags top recipes – I think it needs more taste to be honest, so add your own herbs, seasoning, etc, or it tastes a bit one dimensional!

Ingredients (serves 6)

2 tbs olive oil
1 large brown onion, finely chopped
300g sweet potato, peeled, coarsely grated
2 garlic cloves, crushed
6 eggs ( can opt to just use whites of two if you wish)
40g plain flour (or a wee bit more if the mix is too mushy, remember the ricotta strengthens)
125g reduced fat ricotta
250g zucchini, grated, moisture removed
2 tbs each of flat leaf parsley and chives

Method

Preheat oven to 180c Grease and line a 26x16cm slice pan.
Heat the oil in a large non stick fry pan over high heat, and cook the onion, stirring for 3 minutes or until soft. Stir in the garlic for 1 minute or until aromatic.
Whisk the eggs, and flour in a large bowl until mixture is smooth. Whisk in ricotta until just combined. Stir in the sweet potato mixture, zucchini, herbs, season.
Pour the mixture into the pan. Bake for 30 minutes until golden and cooked through. Set aside to cool slightly
Serve the slice with tomatoes, scattered with extra parsley and rocket

26 Comments
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- - cassy26 said
  - 01 Feb 2023
    2:14 pm
This looks tasty and healthy I’ll just add a little more seasoning!

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- - Ellen said
  - 13 Feb 2020
    4:43 am
I made this one yesterday. As I thought it wouldn’t be enough I used around 500gm sweet potato and also added a parsnip and an extra egg and we ate it with the 5 of us.
For taste I added a royal amount of black pepper, hymalayan sea salt, an extra glove a garlic and 2 spoon of pesto. I used a diary free smoked sesame spread instead of the ricotta and chickpea flour instead of plain flour. I did it all in the blender and didn’t remove moisture from the zucchini. It worked out well.

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- - Blossom said
  - 30 Sep 2019
    4:09 pm
Is there any dairy free cheese you can use that works similar to ricotta? I know Liddells make some dairy free cheeses.
- Ellen replied
  
  06 Jan 2020 , 9:17 am
  Yes there is a soft cheese on the market from the brand Sheese, you can buy it at Woolies. You can also substitute ricotta with tofu and you can make a diary free ricotta with nuts (1 cup macadamia nuts, 1 cup cashew nuts, 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, 1 juiced lemon, 1/2 cup water)
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- - Ellen said
  - 30 Sep 2019
    7:26 am
Nice one, I must try it. One of my kids is on diary free diet and 3 on gluten free diet so I would make it without the ricotta, maybe add some soaked and blended cashews and use lentil flour instead of plain flour.

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- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 27 Nov 2018
    9:17 am
Great lunch or dinner meal or even better for kids lunchbox

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- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 10 Nov 2017
    6:04 pm
Looks great and love the ingredients in this recipe i cant say ive ever tried to add sweet potato before

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- - mom266216 said
  - 28 Oct 2017
    1:17 pm
So beautiful!! It looks so yummy.

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- - youngoldlady said
  - 23 Jul 2017
    12:28 am
This slice is a great way of serving veggies to all ages. Wondering if this could be served cold for lunches or re-heated for later.

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- - natct said
  - 14 Jul 2017
    9:47 am
Looks awesome thankyou

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- - mom111059 said
  - 03 Jul 2017
    8:54 pm
Beautiful recipe. It looks delicious. Thank you.

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- - momlynneymom said
  - 23 Jun 2017
    8:10 pm
My grandchildren would love these

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- - mom152736 said
  - 02 Apr 2017
    6:14 pm
Saw this just in time when I was looking for a new recipe.. lol..Thanks.

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- - mom112023 said
  - 01 Mar 2017
    8:50 am
Zucchini one of my favourites. Will try this and add the extra flavours as you suggested.
- mggarner replied
  
  31 Mar 2017 , 11:34 pm
  Same my favourite too and sweet potato is yummy as well
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- - youngoldlady said
  - 27 Feb 2017
    2:22 am
Thank you for this, really need recipes for sweet potatoes.
- youngoldlady replied
  
  07 May 2017 , 9:35 pm
  Finally got around to making this and went down well here.
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- - mom57619 said
  - 17 Feb 2017
    7:38 am
This would be good for school lunch leftovers.

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- - mom62624 said
  - 05 Feb 2017
    10:16 am
This is a fantastic recipe full of delicious ingredients and veggies; thanks!.

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- - mom169446 said
  - 04 Feb 2017
    12:57 pm
I would love to make this it looks delicious, I have a vegan friend and was wondering if any one new what you could swap the eggs with?

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- - rachelvk said
  - 14 Jan 2017
    9:30 pm
I love a good zucchini slice and I think the addition of sweet potato would be lovely!

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- - coastalkaryn said
  - 14 Jan 2017
    5:21 pm
oh forgot to say recipe says can freeze, I don’t think it would defrost well, but the recipe says otherwise, let me know if you do it..

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- - mom112217 said
  - 13 Jan 2017
    9:29 am
A lovely savoury slice,thanks so much!

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