Sweet potatoes??

Question

I've recently got into sweet potatoes but all I seem to do is mash them with coriander and spring onions. Does anybody know of any tasty, interesting things I can do with them. Inspire me people!

Answer 1

Spanish sweet potato with chorizo, peppers and fried egg. Serves 2.

Cut two sweet potatoes into chunks (no need to peel) and put in a small roasting pan. Peel a red onion, cut it in half, and then cut the halves into half-moon-shaped slices. Deseed one each of red and green peppers, then cut the flesh into broad strips. Add the peppers and onion to the pan with the sweet potato.

Mix together 2 tblspoons olive oil, 1.5 tspoons smoked Spanish paprika, and 0.25 tsp ground cumin; add some salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. Pour this mixture over the vegetables and stir to coat.

Roast for about 30 mins at 200 deg C/400 deg F/gas mark 6; the vegetables should be tender and have a slightly charred appearance.

Take about 200 g chorizo sausage, cut into thick rounds, and 100 g bacon or pancetta, cut into chunks. Put about 1 tblspoon olive oil into a frying pan, heat, and use to cook the bacon and chorizo. When cooked, add a couple of cloves of garlic, finely chopped. Turn the heat down (don't want the garlic to burn) and cook for another minute, and then add to the vegetables, retaining the oil in the frying pan. Give the vegetable and meat combo a good stir, so the ingredients are combined. Add a little more oil to the frying pan if you need to, and fry a couple of large eggs to your preference.

To serve, tip vegetable and meat mixture onto plates, topping each with a fried egg. Comfort food supreme.




Honey Chicken Pan-Fry To serve 4:

1 tbsp olive oil
2 lemons (unwaxed good!), one sliced into thick slices
700 g sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
4 chicken breast fillets, skinned, boned and diced
1 tsp dried rosemary
1 tbsp honey


Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the sweet potatoes and sliced lemon. Cook over a gentle heat for 15 mins or so, turning occasionally, until the potatoes are browned and tender.

Add the garlic, chicken and rosemary and increase the heat; season. Cook for ten minutes or so until the chicken is browned and cooked with no trace of pinkness.

Squeeze the remaining lemon over the potatoes and chicken, and stir in the honey. Simmer for 1-2 minutes, then serve with steamed broccoli.

Answer 2

Fillet of Cod with Indian Sweet Potatoes

* Servings: 4
* Level of difficulty: Easy
* Preparation Time: 1 hour 30 minutes, , including cooking the baked potatoes
* Cooking Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients
For the potatoes

* 2 large sweet potatoes
* 1 onion, diced
* 60ml apple juice
* 2 garlic cloves, crushed
* 1 piece of fresh ginger root (2.5cm), grated
* 2 tsp ground cumin
* 1 green chilli, finely chopped
* 1 red pepper, diced
* 3 tbsp light or low-fat cream cheese
* 1 pinch salt and fresh ground black pepper
* 100g frozen peas, defrosted
* 1 tbsp lemon juice

For the cod

* 600g cod fillet
* 2 tbsp white flour, seasoned
* 1 egg, beaten
* 1 tbsp double cream
* 3 tbsp oil, for frying
* 30g butter
* 1 tbsp Parsley, chopped

Method

1. Set the oven to 200C/gas 6. Bake the sweet potatoes whole for approximately one hour, until soft.

2. Meanwhile, put the onion and apple juice together in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer slowly for five minutes.

3. Add garlic, ginger, cumin, chilli and red pepper. Cover and simmer for about five minutes. Remove from the heat, stir in the cheese, and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Set aside.

4. Cut the potatoes carefully in half lengthways.

5. Scoop out the cooked potato from the centre leaving a good four centimetre border to help hold the potatoes shape.

6. Mix the flesh potato with the soft cheese. Add the peas and lemon juice and season. Fill the shells with the mixture and bake in oven for a further three minutes.

7. In the meantime, cut the cod into portion sized pieces. Remove all bones and skin. Dip the fish into the seasoned flour.

8. Beat the egg with one tablespoon of double cream. Stir in the chopped parsley.

9. Heat the oil and butter in a frying pan.

10. Dip the floured cod into the egg mix and then fry for about seven minutes, until cooked through. Serve immediately with the sweet potatoes.

Answer 3

Curry! Mix, boiled sweet potatoes and carrots together to a slightly lumpy puree. Add a little banana to sweeten it. Put in brown curry mix (cumin, coriander, tumeric...), some chiles (dried Asian chiles work really well, as do habaneros!). Put in other spices as you like, I always put in several cloves and cardamon pods in. A pepper mix and even a little cinnamon works well.

You can even keep the spring onions in... this is like a spiced up version of what you are already used to... Serve with (brown) basmati rice (I think it's better if you add currants or raisins along with spices like cloves, cardamon, saffron etc.)

You can eat it with a fork or with Indian bread (I recommend paratha... though anything works). This will also work really well with tamarind chutney.

Enjoy!

Answer 4

Roast 'em in olive oil - or any fat really - just as you would a traditional potato. Chuck a few garlic cloves and some rosemary around, too.

Bake them in their jackets and add butter, salt and freshly ground black pepper - just like a traditional potato. In fact, anything you can do with the humble spud, you can also do with the sweet variety. I've never tried making chips, mind, but should work !

Answer 5

Butter is good when you smash them. To start. You might want to add some marshmallows and some nuts. maybe some pie crust. or maybe just in an interesting dish like cook or bake and slice potato in thin slices add Kielbasa or smoked sausage cut diagonally, 1 can of peaches, 1 can of whole green beans add some corn starch to the liquid off the peaches and beans and pour it in the skillet or pan you are using. Serve over rice. Very Interesting.

Answer 6

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Have Shrinks put spells on your food with APA/DSM Curses and Chants and wizardry against the Ten Commandments...
Run then over again.
Add boiled egg, mayonaisse, essence of crow, boiled ravens' eys, and Spirit of Lockslie. PIss on it twice, then turn and turn up heat.
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Just Knock Three Times. Fart twice to add to Global Warming, and you got Sweet Commie Potatoes!

Answer 7

U need coconut cream,Sweet potatoes and pawpaw. Boil sweet potatoes when they are cook get a dish,slice them in the dish then slice the pawpaw on top then u repeat it again by slicing the sweet potatoes and put on top then the slice the pawpaw then finish it off slicing the sweet potatoes then pour coconut cream on top and put in the oven or the microwave. Another one boil sweet potatoes when they are cook put in a microwave dish or baking dish and whisk some eggs with a little bit of milk and pour it on top of the sweet potatoes then cover and cook until the egg is cooked.

Answer 8

Mashed potatoes but I like sweet potatoes too :),

Answer 9

Mmmm! They're lovely in all sorts of ways, even contain a substance that helps balance female hormones! Amazing. Anyway, recipe: I gave this one to my fiance and he loves it as much as I do...
wash the sweet potato & dry it
peel off only the brown murky bit
stab it as you would an ordinary potato
place in in a bowl in the microwave, full power 10-15mn
place on a plate and cut it open wide
spead with cream cheese (Philadelphia type)
add butter or spread if you fancy it
add lots of freshly ground black pepper on top
Enjoy!

Quick & easy.

Answer 10

You could try roasting them with some other vegetables (red peppers, red onions etc), with a little olive oil and salt and pepper, perhaps a little rosemary.

Or you could try mashing them into some sausage meat (I'm a veggie so I use Sosmix) and baking it with some cheese on top.