The problem with making food to photograph is that you eat it, and I had to slap my own hand here. Originally I had roasted the peppers with the intent to make my red pepper hummus but as I had some mayonnaise left over after making my roasted fennel mayonnaise, I decided to turn it into red pepper mayo.
This is my kind of veggie heaven platter, char-grilled vegetable to dip into this roasted pepper mayo dip.
Red Pepper Mayonnaise
Roast the peppers and garlic, see my post How to char and roast bell peppers and roast garlic.
Puree them until smooth.
Mix with mayo and seasoning, a little chilli or cayenne pepper or tabasco is nice.
If you’re adding the red pepper puree to homemade mayonnaise the resulting mayo will have the consistency of a dip rather than thick mayo because of the water content of the peppers.
For the sweet potatoes
Peel and cut two large sweet potatoes into large thick slices.
Spread them out in a baking dish and trickle a little olive oil over them, sprinkle with salt.
Toss potatoes to coat them with the oil and salt.
Bake them in a medium-hot oven, 180˚C fan, for 20 minutes. Take them out and turn them over.
Back in the oven for another 20 mins until they’re done.
Oven roasting the sweet potatoes like this won’t result in crispy wedges but they still taste good.
Roasted Red Pepper and Roasted Garlic Mayonnaise
How to roast the peppers and garlic my post here.
- 300ml of mayonnaise – if making your own my recipe here.
- 3 roasted red pepper (bell peppers)
- 4-5 roasted garlic cloves
- large pinch of salt
- freshly black pepper or cayenne or tabasco to taste
Skin the red peppers and put them in a small blender together with the pulp of the roasted garlic. Blend until you have a puree. Add to the mayonnaise with the salt and pepper. Leave this mayo in the fridge for a good few hours preferable overnight for the flavour to mature properly.
You may also like my Roasted Fennel Mayonnaise.
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I so relate to the problem of wanting to eat what you are about to photograph. When I started this blogging lark I thought it was just
cook – photograph – eat.
Hah! I cook. We eat. I swear because I didn’t photograph it!
Returning to the post, I love the idea of Roasted Red Pepper and Roasted Garlic Mayonnaise and have bookmarked it. Thank you.
hi Pat – my family don’t like me much when I cook for them but have to take a photo first..get lots of groans..bless them!