What can you do with sweet potatoes? 🍠
Sweet potatoes have been placed in a brighter spotlight in recent years, mainly because of their many health benefits. This starchy, sweet, orangey vegetable is a great source of fibre, calcium, vitamin C, iron, and antioxidants. Thankfully, they taste amazing. 🍠
So here’s a bunch of different ways you can cook sweet potatoes:
Jacket potatoes
Jacket potatoes make a great side, and when they’re made with sweet potatoes they’re even better. Cut the potatoes in half, drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and pepper, roast until soft, and then scoop out the middle parts to make a mixture with your favourite ingredients. Add it back in, cover with cheese, and put it back in the oven for another few minutes! 🧥
Fries
Fries made with sweet potatoes just take your dish to a whole other level. If you like the sweet and salty combination in your dish, sprinkle a generous amount of salt on your sweet potato fries. If you want crispy, baked fries, toss the sliced pieces of sweet potato in cornstarch (or flour), drizzle with olive oil, and bake at around 210 degrees celsius. 🍟
Mash
Since sweet potatoes are so, well, sweet, you will need to add a bit of savoury boosters here to give your sweet potato mash taste extra flavour factor. Combine with some butter (or olive oil), garlic, scallions, parsley, sour cream, salt, pepper, and any spices you like! 🧂
Soup
My favourite way to eat sweet potatoes is in pumpkin soup. A combination of pumpkin, sweet potatoes, garlic, and leeks is the perfect winter dish! You can also make this amazing Maple Bacon Sweet Potato Soup. 🥣
Roast
Roasted sweet potatoes are the bomb. A killer way to make great roasted sweet potatoes is to cut them into cubes, place them in a dish, add chopped sweet peppers and chopped Maltese sausage, a drizzle of olive oil and some salt and pepper, and bake. 💣
Noodles
If you’re looking for a healthier option to pasta, you can always go for sweet potato noodles. All you need to do is spiralize sweet potatoes to create noodles. If you don’t have a spiralizer, use a peeler to cut very thin slices of sweet potato and then chop them into long strands. 🍜
Patties or Pancakes
Make some great pulpetti with sweet potatoes by boiling them, mashing them and adding an egg, spices, a bit of flour, scallions, and some bacon. If you want to have them for breakfast, mix 2 eggs with a mashed roasted sweet potato, and voila - you have a sweet potato pancake. 🥞
Pie
An American way of enjoying sweet potato is by making it into a pie for dessert. Check out this amazing recipe for sweet potato pie. 🥧
Sweet potatoes can be made into a variety of both sweet and savoury dishes. Do you have any other go-to recipes using sweet potatoes? Let us know in the comments!
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