- 500g sweet potatoes
- 45g butter, room temperature
- 1 tbsp Spanish seasoning
- 250g cherry tomatoes
- 1 lemon
- 2 top rump minute steaks
- 50g lamb's lettuce
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- ½ tbsp + 2 tsp olive oil
- Vegetable peeler
- Large pan with lid
- Large frying pan
- 1.
Fill and boil your kettle. Peel the sweet potatoes and chop them into small cubes. Tumble them into a large pan, add a pinch of salt and pour enough boiling water from the kettle to cover. Pop on a lid, bring back to the boil, then simmer for 10-15 mins till the sweet potatoes are tender when pierced with a sharp knife.
- 2.
Meanwhile, add half the butter to a small bowl and tip in 1 tbsp Spanish seasoning. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and mix. Set to one side.
- 3.
Squeeze the juice from half the lemon into a large mixing bowl. Whisk with ½ tbsp olive oil and some salt and pepper to make a dressing. Set aside. Halve the cherry tomatoes.
- 4.
Warm a large frying pan on a high heat for 2-3 mins, till smoking hot. Rub the minute steaks with 1 tsp olive oil each and season with salt and pepper. When the pan is smoking, carefully add the steaks. Cook for 30 secs on each side for medium-rare, or a little longer for more well done, or if your steaks are on the thicker side. Lift the steaks out of the pan onto a warm plate, cover with foil and set aside to rest.
- 5.
While the steaks rest, pop the frying pan back on the heat. Add the cherry tomatoes with a pinch of salt and cook for 2 mins, shaking the pan now and then till the tomatoes are soft and charred.
- 6.
When the tomatoes have cooked for 2 mins, add the spiced butter mixture to the pan and then turn off the heat. Swirl to coat the tomatoes in the butter and set aside.
- 7.
Drain the sweet potatoes and tip them back into the pan. Add the remaining butter and a generous pinch of salt and pepper and mash the potatoes till smooth. Toss the lamb's lettuce with the lemony dressing.
- 8.
Pop the steaks onto a couple of plates and add plenty of sweet potato mash. Spoon the buttery tomatoes over the steaks and serve with the dressed lamb's lettuce on the side.