What to do with sweet potatoes?

Roast them in a tiny bit of olive oil with garlic, basil, and a little sea salt. Super delicious! You can mix in regular potatoes, carrots, parsnips, etc if you want more variety.

Aside from baking and using as a side dish, I use it in my Caribbean Chicken Soup

Chicken - Dark meat, meat only, 1 cup, chopped or diced
Potatoes - Boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, without salt, 1 large
Sweet Potato - Boiled, 2 cup cubes
1-2 large carrots, chopped in small pieces
Onion (Medium), 1 med
Red Bell Pepper - 1/2 Pepper
Garlic (Clove), 3 cloves
Raw - Cilantro, 0.25 cup
Oregano - Dried Oregano, 3 Tsp
Spices - Cumin, 2 tsp
Chicken stock (from boiling the chicken)
salt and pepper to taste

Place chicken in the pot, with spices. Cook for about 1.5 hrs. Remove the chicken and chop it up, or you can save the chicken for a nice chicken salad and just use the broth. Add the rest of the ingredients to the chicken stock and boil for another 60 mins. You may also add some broccoli or any other low cal vegetable. If you decide to add the chicken do so when you have 30 mins remaining. Enjoy!

My favourite pizza place does a tandoori sweet potato pizza which is soooo good and which made me seek out this recipe which is absolutely scrumptious:

Tandoori Sweet Potatoes

2 sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced
1 tablespoon tandoori paste (I use Patak's)
1 tablespoon canola oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
cooking spray

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Spray small rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray.

Put sliced sweet potatoes, tandoori paste, canola oil, salt and red pepper flakes to bowl. Stir until the sweet potatoes are well coated.

Pour onto the prepared baking sheet & separate into a single layer.

Bake 10 minutes on middle rack. Flip and bake another 5-10 minutes.

Remove from oven and eat! Yum

I cut them up into strips sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon on them and then bake until they are a consistancy I like.

Plant them in a pot! The make beautiful plants PLUS in the fall you will have sweet potatoes galore!

Sauteed with sweet onions (my fave), baked, roasted with garlic and portobellas ... it's all good stuff. : )

Eat this:
http://www.kalynskitchen.com/2010/06/recipe-for-grilled-sweet-potato-salad.html

Or this:
http://naturallyella.com/2013/02/20/spiced-sweet-potato-and-goat-cheese-egg-skillet/

Or this:
http://www.biggirlssmallkitchen.com/2011/12/vegetarian-african-peanut-stew.html

Feel free to add the meat of your choice, but those are all delicious meatless too!

Crockpot African Peanut Soup

1 onion, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1 - 28 ounce can of diced tomatoes
6 chicken thighs with skin removed
1 large sweet potato, peeled and diced
3 cups water
1 cup peanut butter (creamy or chunky - whichever you like)

All all ingredients except peanut butter to crockpot and cook on high for 1 hour and turn down heat to low for 2-3 hours. (optional - take out chicken thighs, remove bones and shred chicken to return to crock pot). Add peanut butter. Cook on low for 1 hour. 8 servings, 350 calories per serving, 17 carbs, 22 sugar (but sadly 531 mg sodium)

This sounds yummy!! Just a slight alteration, perhaps? Use fresh diced tomatoes instead of canned. That would do wonders for the sodium. :happy:

you can make baked fries. cut like fries spray with pam and sprinkle with a little salt and pepper or seasonings of choice bake until tender.

Mashed 'em and add some cinnamon and nutmeg. The spices add natural sweetness without the calories and the fat. Plus, they'll taste kinda "dessert-y".