Hi, I’m trying to introduce more sweet potatoes into my diet however I just can’t bring myself to enjoy them! The soft texture and taste just aren’t a patch on regular spuds. What recipes or cooking methods can you recommend to make them crunchy/crisp and tastier🤔
Angrish101
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I don't care for sweet potatoes and don't eat them. I eat plenty of regular old potatoes...look at the nutritional information of a sweet potato and russet potato side by side...the nutritional profiles really aren't all that different. Biggest difference is that a sweet potato has a higher vitamin A content and a russet has a higher vitamin C content...otherwise, the nutritional differences are fairly negligible and I don't see one as being more "healthy" than the other. For whatever reason, the sweet potato has been given some kind of magical super food status while the regular old potato has been vilified...which makes zero sense when you actually compare the nutritional profile of each. They both have really good nutritional profiles...I just don't particularly like the texture or taste of sweet potatoes.
Wash & stab several times with knife, then wrap in wet paper towel and cook in micro ( I have a cook potato button) next... carefully remove to cutting board and slice 1/4 inch slices... then cook slices in non stick pan with some pepper and very little becel butter and fry until crispy brown!!! Awesome!
I wouldn't consider sweet potato a replacement for regular potato, they're wholly different vegetables. Regular potatoes do also have considerable nutrition, don't feel like you can't eat them as part of a healthful diet. Leave the skin on and don't go nuts with the added fats, and you're golden.
I like to dice up sweet potatoes and roast them in the oven. If they're particularly big or hard to break down, I'll parcook them in boiling water for just a few minutes to start them softening, then transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet, coat with some olive oil and herbs, and bake at 400F for 15-20 minutes. They also work very well in the microwave for a quick "baked" potato - prick all over with a fork, wrap in a damp paper towel, nuke for about 3-4 minutes depending on size, flip, nuke another 3-4 minutes. (This also works with regular potatoes; works better with starchy potatoes, but will also work with waxy ones.)
My DIL makes a veggie chili that has sweet potatoes in it that is pretty tasty, but it might not fit within calorie guidelines because it had a dollop of sour cream on top, a couple slices of avocado and a serving of tortilla chips on the side. I don't know the recipe, but from memory it had sweet potatoes, onion, celery, tomatoes, sliced black olives, canned black beans and spices, chili, cumin, garlic and salt. It may have had more veggies in it, you could experiment if interested.
Sweet potato pie is delicious, similar to pumpkin pie. You can make something like a souffle, custard or pudding with cooked sweet potato, and you can swap out the sugar for stevia. I've done it with pumpkin and it's good, like a crustless pumpkin pie. Not as good as the recipe my mom taught me with a flour crust and insides full of cane sugar, but good enough to satisfy an itch. Eggs/egg white, cream or milk, sweetener, cinnamon (nutmeg and ginger optional).
You could try making something crispy in an air fryer. Slice as thin as possible. Sprinkle with the flavor combinations you like. You already have the sweet, do you want sweet and salty, or maybe sweet and spicy. I have done this in a regular oven and again have found something passable to satisfy an itch. But it's not the same as good old fashioned fried potato chips.
I like sweet potatoes and regular white, yellow or purple (fun, but very starchy) potatoes, but they are not interchangeable in my mind. I worked for a potato farm for ten years. The potato is an important nutritious food that allowed mankind to flourish. It got a bad rap when humans decided to blame it for the obesity epidemic, even though people ate potatoes for centuries before that. Truth is, humans got it wrong again. Potatoes are an excellent choice in the diet. It's not the potato, it's what we do with it.
This is exactly what I think about sweet potatoes. I have been completely baffled by the way they have been elevated to be regarded as some sort of super alternative in recent years.
It makes a sweet side dish or can be added to oatmeal or warmed and topped with yogurt for a dessert-y vibe.
Based on your statement about vitamins and c, I should eat white potatoes, not sweet potatoes. But I love sweet potatoes, and while I definitely like white potatoes, I don’t love them. And for me, sweet potatoes are lower calorie. I like them baked with a sprinkle of pumpkin spice. On the other hand, I like white potatoes baked with a boatload of butter and/or sour cream added, or mashed with butter, cream cheese, either cheese melted over or gravy all over.
@angrish101, eat what you like, not what someone else says is good. Figure out a way to make it fit. Be healthier AND happier! Life’s too short!
Sweet potato being lower on the GI scale is why it's a popular sub for regular potatoes.
In other words, better for people who have to watch their blood suger.
It's less than a gram of fiber difference per 100 grams of potato though and if you're eating protein and fat with the potato (which most of us are doing in a meal context), that will also factor into the GI.
If it's for lower GI reasons, can you substitute carrot, parsnip, artichoke, cauliflower or butter beans instead? A few of those make decent mash and carrots & parnsips are possible alternative for roasted potatoes.
Depends on how they're cooked. A boiled sweet potato has a low GI and GL...I don't know too many people eating boiled sweet potatoes though...that same sweet potato baked has a GI of 94 and GL of 42, which would be considered extremely high for someone who needed to watch their blood sugar.
I don't have any reason to watch my blood sugar or worry about the GI of any particular food...particularly as the GL of a particular food is also going to change depending on what you're eating it with. My dad was type II and potatoes, sweet or otherwise were pretty much a no go save for here and there...but definitely not a regular staple food in his diet.
Keep in mind that a baked sweet potato is going to have a much higher GI than any other cooking option...a boiled sweet potato has a GI of 44 which would be acceptable for a diabetic in moderation...a baked sweet potato has a GI of 94...which would be considerably high for a diabetic.
If you actually need to watch your blood sugar because you're diabetic, it is simply not a good option. Also, the difference in fiber between the two kinds of spuds are about 1 gram.
Depends on how they're cooked. A boiled sweet potato has a low GI and GL...I don't know too many people eating boiled sweet potatoes though...
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Boiled and mashed is my fav, with some Greek yogurt. Just because you don't know people that do, just means you don't know enough people!
LMFAO...ok...Just because your favorite is boiled and mashed doesn't mean that's how most people do it either. Even then, it's border line...if you're diabetic and need to watch your blood sugar levels, neither a regular potato or a sweet potato is a very good option on any kind of regular basis...Also...I know a lot of people.
If you took a poll, I'd wager that most people like their sweet potatoes baked or roasted. Hell, you can get on pinterest and that's what most of the recipes are.
White potatoes? Meh.
https://cookieandkate.com/black-bean-sweet-potato-enchiladas/
Then I bought some Sweet Potatoes to make hypoallergenic dog treats and researched how to cook them to use up the rest. Now I’m hooked on them!
I use them baked, with black beans or Feta and salad. Roasted in a hash with onions and peppers, I treat myself to oil free sweet potato fries, or nachos using sweet potato slices in place of tortilla chips, in lentil DhaI and veggie curries to add that touch of sweetness. I’ve done a complete 180° on them! Love them!