Equipment
- Dinner Rolls:
- 2 6-part muffin pans
- large mixing bowl
- wisk
- flour sifter
- Sweet Potato and Avocado Pasta:
- 3 qt pot
- 10in (25cm) frying pan
- cutting board
Ingredients
- Dinner Rolls:
- 1pkg active dry yeast (2-1/4 tsp.)
- 1cup lukewarm water
- 1 egg
- 1/4cup sugar
- 1tsp salt
- 1/4cup oil
- 3cup flour
- Sweet Potato and Avocado Pasta:
- 3-4cups fusili pasta
- 1-2 small-medium sweet potatoes
- 1-2 ripe avocados
- 1/4 medium onion
- 1/4lb whole crimini mushrooms
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1tsp Italian spice mix (1:1:1 oregano:marjoram:thyme)
- 2Tbsp olive oil
- 2Tbsp butter
Prep
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
- Heat 2qts water in pot to boiling
- Make dinner roll dough
- Dissolve yeast in water in mixing bowl
- Add: egg, sugar, salt, oil, 1-1/2cup flour. Beat with wisk until smooth.
- Add remaining flour. Beat with wisk until smooth.
- Grease muffin pans
- Fill muffin pan cups half way and let rise 5-10min (until double).
- Clean mushrooms:
- moisten a paper towel and rub dirt off of mushrooms
- separate stems from caps
- Chop:
- sweet potato into approx. 2cm cubes
- onion coarsely
- mushroom stems finely
- Slice mushroom caps
- Slice avocado
- Crush garlic cloves with flat side of knife. Remove skin. Chop finely.
- Bake dinner rolls 15min.
- Pasta
- boil per package directions
- drain
- Sweet potato
- Heat olive oil and butter in pan over med-hi heat
- Add garlic, onion, mushroom stems. Saute 3-min, stirring frequently.
- Add sweet potato, mushroom caps, Italian spice mix. Saute 3-min, stirring frequently.
- Reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer 5min, stir, continue simmering until sweet potatoes are soft.
- Plate pasta and top with sweet potato saute. Garnish with sliced avocado.
- Butter dinner rolls and serve on the side.