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Sweet Potato Recipes

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  • Dethea
    Dethea Posts: 247 Member
    I just bake/microwave it, and eat it with a TINY bit of butter, brown sugar, and lots of cinnamon. It's really good! Or plain too.

    I always eat them with the skin on, too.
  • MaybeAMonkey
    MaybeAMonkey Posts: 247
    This may sound odd, but I love it in Mac N' Cheese and on pizza with ham or salami and broccoli rabe! :)
  • katy84o
    katy84o Posts: 744 Member
    Two ways I looove sweet potatoes!

    First- slice like fries, drizzle with olive oil, chili powder, salt, and rosemary, bake in the oven at 425 for 20 mins, more or less depending on how thick/thin you slice them.

    Second- Baked, then in a small bowl slice down the center and put about 1 tbsp butter, salt and pepper and then add to the bowl a serving of thawed peas. I discovered this while trying to use up ingredients I had. It was delicious, I had it again the next day for lunch.
  • Oretexan
    Oretexan Posts: 108
    I microwave a sweet potato for 5 minutes, cut down the center then add a wedge or two of laughing cow cinnamon cream cheese spread. SO good!
  • SenseAtional
    SenseAtional Posts: 134
    Grilled Sweet Potato Salad. It's so simple, yet so delicious, and barely any work. 3 ingredients - sweet potatoes, basil, and feta. Here's the recipe: http://www.mywalletisfatnotme.com/2011/09/grilled-sweet-potato-salad-recipe.html

    I also like to make a version of chilli sweet potato hash browns. I just shred a sweet potato using a box grater, spray a pan with olive oil spray, spread out the shredded sweet potato in the pan, and sprinkle the top generously with chili powder. I mix everything up, so all the pieces are coated with the chili powder, then spread it out in a thin layer again, and cook on one side until crispy. Then, I flip everything over and crisp the other side. It's pretty much only the calories from the sweet potatoes and a little bit from the olive oil spray. So delicious!

    I also make vegetarian chili with chunks of sweet potatoes.
  • JeSuisPrest
    JeSuisPrest Posts: 2,005 Member
    I microwave a sweet potato for 5 minutes, cut down the center then add a wedge or two of laughing cow cinnamon cream cheese spread. SO good!

    I sooooo have to try that!!
  • elka67
    elka67 Posts: 268 Member
    bump
  • laus_8882
    laus_8882 Posts: 217 Member
    http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/22312/cottage+pie+with+sweet+potato Yum, this! I made it last week and am dying to give it another go, except I think I should be eating more than just cottage pie... It made me five servings with a little tweaking - added extra chopped veg to the mince and I didn't mash the sweet potato with milk and butter, just cubed it, cooked in the microwave and smushed things together into a very passable mash. With a sprinkle of low fat cheese it's very, very filling and very diet friendly. Oh, and the servings freeze wonderfully. I made them in the individual Pyrex bowls with cheery red lids and nothing in the dish lost flavour or texture after the freezing and defrosting process.
  • Colleen790
    Colleen790 Posts: 813 Member
    Bump
  • PapaDunx
    PapaDunx Posts: 243
    Ok .. daft question.

    What is special about sweet potatoes?

    I absolutely love them, but aren't they just as carby as normal pots?
  • Tank_Girl
    Tank_Girl Posts: 372 Member
    I love sweet potatoes... I often make turkey and sweet potatoe curry, stews with sweet potato, roast them, mash them
    They are one of my favourite vegetables along with spinach and butternut squash
  • tryclyn
    tryclyn Posts: 2,414 Member
    I was just thinking about what else I could do with my sweet potatoes and along comes this thread. Thank you.
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