What to do with a sweet potato?

I bake mine and flavour them sweet and spicy. Slice and toss in a bit of olive oil, garlic, and brown sugar and a good bit of cumin and pepper.

When I bake sweet potatoes, I like to bake a couple extra ones. These I place in the refrigerator overnight and in the morning I take the skin off and slice them. Then I put the slices in a pan and fry them until they are slightly crunchy on the outside. You can use butter or some other type of oil to keep them from sticking, but this is my favorite way to eat sweet potatoes. They taste like candy!

I found this recipe for Sweet Potato Scallop (http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1946,134187-240195,00.html) which I've made a few times; it's very good and reheats well. (I add extra pepper and ginger :-)

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SCALLOPED SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE
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6 medium sweet potatoes
2 medium onions
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
salt

In 5-quart saucepot, add unpeeled sweet potatoes and enough water to cover. Boil, then reduce heat to low; cover and simmer until sweet potatoes are just fork-tender but not soft, about 20 minutes; drain. Cool sweet potatoes until easy to handle.
Meanwhile, slice onions 1/4 inch thick. In 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, in hot vegetable oil, cook onions and 1/4 teaspoon salt until tender, stirring occasionally.

Preheat oven to 375°F. Grease 13x9" baking dish. Peel sweet potatoes and cut into 1/4 inch thick slices. In bottom of baking dish, arrange one-third of sweet potatoes; sprinkle with half of onions. Place half of remaining sweet potatoes over onion layer, then top with remaining onions.

Arrange remaining sweet potatoes over onions.

Make sauce (see below). Pour sauce over potatoes in baking dish; sprinkle with parsley.

Bake 30 minutes or until sauce is bubbly and mixture is heated through. If you like, broil 1 minute to brown top of potatoes slightly.

Makes 6 accompaniment servings.


Sauce:

2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons chopped parsley

In 1-quart saucepan over medium heat, melt butter; stir in flour, ginger, pepper, and 1 teaspoon salt until blended; cook 1 minute.
Gradually stir in milk; cook, stirring constantly, until sauce boils and thickens slightly.

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Here is my estimate for the nutritional content (8 good sized servings)

Ingredients Calories Carbs Fat Protein Fiber Sugar
Sweet potato - Cooked, boiled, without skin (Sweetpotato), 2000 g 1,520 354 3 27 50 115
Onions - Raw, 490.0 g 206 50 0 5 7 21
Oil - Vegetable, canola, 3 tbsp 371 0 42 0 0 0
Butter - Salted, 2 tbsp 204 0 23 0 0 0
Robin Hood - All-Purpose Flour, 1/8 cup 50 11 0 2 1 0
Spice Islands - Asian Ginger - Powdered, 1 tsp 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marcum - Black Pepper-Coarse Ground, 1/4 tsp 5 1 0 0 0 0
Fan - Fresh Parsley - Chopped (1/4 C), 1/4 c 6 1 0 1 1 1
Cerulean Seas - Course Crystals Salt, 1/8 tsp (1.2)g 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total: 2362 417 68 35 59 137
Per Serving: 295 52 9 4 7 17

Besides the ideas about butter & cinnamon which I also love - Slice up and use in stir fry; add to curry; roast with other vegies - roll in a little olive oil, lots of fresh ground pepper, a little salt.

Sweet potatoes are lower GI than white potatoes so are better for you.

I'm not a big fan of sweet potatoes, but this recipe is AWESOME!

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Crispy-Caribbean-Veggie-Wraps

after they come out of the oven (or microwave), I cut it open and put one Laughing Cow Cheese Wedge and a tablespoon or two of plain greek yogurt and mash it up a little - it is SOOOOOOO good! you have to try it! i have it like once a week.

I'm trying this TODAY!!

I like to microwave up a sweet potato and have it with just the same toppings as you'd have on a normal baked potato, my faves toppings are prawns, or tuna mayo, or cheese and baked beans, yummo!

Mashed with carrot, and/or potato is also yum.
Cut into wedges or chip shapes, toss in a smidge of oil, seasoning and some light breadcrumbs, and roast.
Sweet potato in curry (either in place of meat or as well as) is also fab.

Defo one of my favourite veggies!

My family likes Sweet Potato Soup with Ginger

Here's the link to the recipe
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/creamy-sweet-potato-with-ginger-soup/

Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Stick 'em in a stew

(that's it inner-geek, fly free.......)

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