@deliciouslyella

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What makes her worth a follow?

After being diagnosed with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome – a rare and debilitating medical condition, which caused stomach pain, headaches and heart palpitations – Ella Woodward decided to cut gluten, dairy, sugar and meat from her diet in the hope that it would improve her health.

Now fully recovered, she’s a dab hand at creating tasty meals that don’t include any of the above ingredients. A poster girl for healthy eating, Ella has gained quite the following, she’s released two cookbooks and writes a popular blog.

Sweet potato and carrot mash bowl

Ingredients

For the Mash

• 2 sweet potatoes
• 1 bag carrots (about 750g)
• 1/4 of a cup of olive oil (about 100ml)
• 1 and a half teaspoons of dried mixed herbs

For the Chickpeas

• Two 400g tins of chickpeas
• 1 teaspoon of ground cumin
• 1 tablespoon of chilli flakes
• 1 tablespoon of paprika

For the Spinach

• 2 bags of spinach (about 130g each)
• 2 cloves of garlic

Method

• Pre heat the oven to 200C.

• Peel the sweet potatoes and carrots, then cut them into chunks.

• Steam the veg for 40 mins.

• While that steams, rinse and drain the chickpeas and place them on a baking tray with the paprika, cumin, chilli flakes, salt and pepper and drizzle a little olive oil at the end. Bake the chickpeas for 40 mins, until they’re crunchy.

• Once the sweet potato and carrots chunks are really soft, mash them with the olive oil, mixed herbs, salt and pepper.
• Finally sauté the spinach. Simply place the crushed garlic in a saucepan with a little salt and olive oil, let this heat for a couple of minutes before adding the spinach.

• Cook this spinach until it wilts and is soft, this should take about 3 minutes.

• Then serve and enjoy!