Leftover Swede?

Sometimes as a student it can feel as if you've eaten the same meal 4 nights in a row because you've bought a slightly odd ingredient that isn't used in your day to day cooking. I know that when a buy a block of paneer I can use half of it in 1 curry which will last me 2 meals and then I have to eat the next half relatively soon for fear of it going off. So in about one and a half weeks I've eaten 4 curries?! And after that I don't want to eat curry ever again...well nearly! So it's become increasingly more important to me to make up ways to use the same ingredient different ways, even if it isn't too versatile

One of my favourite packed lunches to take to University with me is roast vegetables with a salad because you can always add in different things according to what you've got in fridge, be it sundried tomatoes, grilled artichoke hearts, baby spinach or barrel-aged feta. I make a big batch of the veg which will last me about 3 lunches. But what on earth do you do with the last bit of swede you really really don't want to eat, especially not as roast veg or swede mash...again! So here I've made a very very cheap and quick almost like swede stew. It was a combination of what was in my fridge but I was so happy with the outcome and it was delightful to have another way to cook swede!

Any leftover swede you may have (for 1 person I used just less than a quarter of swede)

3 cloves of garlic

1/2 an onion

1/2 a chilli, depending on how spicy you like it

1tsp Spanish paprika

Handful of cherry tomatoes

300ml Bouillon

Pepper

Handful of spinach

Basil

1.Firstly, peel and dice the swede into nice bite sized chunks and place in a sauce pan of salted bioling water and boil until just soft. You don't want it to be mushy, it needs a little bite.

2.Next gently fry off the garlic, onion and chilli for about two minutes and then add the paprika.

3.Next add in the tomatoes and the bouillon. Bring to the boil and then reduce to a gentle simmer and allow it to simmer for 10 minutes.

4.Next add in the spinach, the drained swede and season with the basil and pepper.

5.Ta Da